European speaks 19 languages
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- čas přidán 19. 05. 2024
- Languages in the video: English, Slovak, Hungarian, Czech, Mandarin Chinese, Russian, German, Italian, French, Spanish, Serbian, Farsi, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Dutch, Taiwanese, Japanese and Cantonese.
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00:06 English
00:30 Slovak
00:57 Hungarian
01:40 Czech
02:11 Mandarin Chinese
03:00 Russian
04:00 German
04:48 Italian
05:29 French
06:20 Spanish
06:42 Serbian
07:47 Farsi
08:37 Polish
09:30 Portuguese
10:33 Romanian
11:20 Dutch
12:23 Taiwanese
13:17 Japanese
14:07 Cantonese
Frequently asked questions:
Q: What is your job?
A: I work as an interpreter of English, Slovak and Mandarin Chinese.
Q: What was the most difficult language you've ever studied?
A: Mandarin Chinese.
Q: How old are you?
A: I'm 34 now. I was 32 in the video.
Q: Which language do you like most?
A: Difficult to say, but if I had to pick a favorite it would be: Hungarian, Russian, Cantonese and Persian.
Q: Which language do you dream in/think in?
A: I think probably those that I use most often: Slovak, English, Mandarin.
Q: When did you start learning foreign languages?/How long did it take you to learn all the languages you speak?
A: I don't think there was a starting moment in my life. Very fortunately I grew up with 2-3 native languages and spoke 5 at an almost native level by the time I was 13 and just continued learning languages here and there as I grew up. It took me my entire life.
Q: Could you give me some tips to learn language XYZ?
A: I have a blog where I wrote probably everything I think about language learning (www.foreverastudent.com). I also made a lot of videos about language learning here on this channel. Feel free to check them out.
Q: How long does it take you to learn a new language?
A: It depends on the language. Also it is difficult to tell what it means to 'learn a language'. To get to a C1 level in Russian it took me about 3 months because Russian is very close my native Slovak language and most Slovaks could do it, to do the same thing in Chinese took me about 7-8 years.
Q: How should I start learning a language?
A: • How to learn a languag...
Q: What is your secret?
A: I don't think there is one. Only passion, lots of time spent on practice, good conditions and a bit of talent.
Q: Where are you from?
A: I was born and lived most of my life in Slovakia.
Q: You made a mistake in the French part. It shouldn't be 'ce video' it should be 'cette video'.
A: Thank you, I'll remember.
Q: You made a mistake in the Serbian part. It should't be 'kuči' but 'kući'.
A: Thank you. I realized it the moment I said it.
Q: The Spanish part was too short.
A: I'll try to make a video where I speak only Spanish next time.
Q: You don't speak Portuguese, you speak Brazilian. Why did you learn that ugly Brazilian Portuguese and not the real Portuguese from Portugal?
A: I must've gotten about 100 comments like this and worse. I honestly don't understand why all the hate against Brazilian Portuguese from Portugal. I just felt silly writing 'Brazilian' instead of 'Portuguese' especially since as far as I know the official language of Brazil is called Portuguese, not Brazilian. It's like saying I speak 'American' instead of 'English'. But, lesson learned, next time I will proudly say I learned 'Brazilian Portuguese'. I learned Brazilian Portuguese because: I love its sound, wonderful Brazilian smiling people, the country, the music, the nature and because I'd like to live there one day.
Q: You didn't learn Greek! You should be ashamed of yourself.
A: I got about 50 similar comments. I have no intelligent answer for this. People help me out:)
Q: Why didn't you learn Arabic? Armenian? Hindi? Indonesian? European Portuguese? Greek?... I'm dissapointed.
A: I never had a good reason or interest.
Q: Were you ever interested in learning
Scandinavian languages?
A: Originally no, because I never had a chance or good reasons to learn them, plus it's too cold for me up there, but recently I went to Finland and I read a book by Stieg Larsson, enjoyed both very much, so maybe some time in the future I will.
Q: Great Chinese but you speak with a Taiwanese accent.
A: I lived in Taiwan for 5 years. I'm not doing it on purpose. I don't know how to speak in any other way.
Q: The use of the word 'geil' in the German part was inappropriate/wrong/off.
A: Some people really seem to think it was inappropriate, but some people in the comments don't. I learned German when I was a teenager and didn't use it since. I said the word without thinking too much. It's definitely not that I used it on purpose to sound cool.
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He make me feel like a loser...
MeL I am proud to be able to speak Chinese but he can almost talk like a native, and that's the one of 19 languages he can speak. That's why I feel like a loser
He also speaks spanish almost like a native
And German like a native
Jose Nevares no, no tan como nativo.....
Kai Yan why
Hi (Sorry for my bad english)
+Elias Piano Music lmfao
You win. HAHAAAHAHA
haahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahaha
haha
You just wrote Hi
You just clicked, because you wanted him to talk in your language😉😂
He can never possibly speak my language I just wanted to hear him speak Serbian.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Well his romanian was good though
Hahaahah
He never speaks my language he knows every European language except mine like I hate people like that so much they just annoy me so much I've heard for only two people to speak and the first didn't demonstrate the second one was just speaking serbian and claiming it was bulgarian
praise bongowongo it’s not impossible so-
it’s 20 languages, if he can speak serbian he can speak croatian too
And bosnian :)
@Blerta LA not macedonian
Blerta LA macedonian is different
Macedonian is bulgarian
@@BlertaLa it's Bosnian and Montenegran (is it said like this).
Though remember they are different languages...... (yeah right)
I can speak 4 languages, and because of this guy , it looks like I don't know a shit
Arima I speak a bit more than 4, but it didn't sound natural, but rather learnt by heart in Taiwanese, Cantonese and Japanese - doesn't sound like he actually speaks. Serbian, English, Russian, Spanish, Italian and Mandarin are ok. I don't think anyone needs more than 6-7 languages.
Me too bro, me too!!!
That is true bro.
Wow, just wow. I am speechless. So if you cannot do it, then no one can, right? If you don't make sense of it, then no one else should be able to?
I learned Italian over 20 years ago and I use it almost NEVER - but I get out of my way to listen to a program in Italian, or watch a movie once in a blue moon ... and guess what? I can still understand it. Certainly, speaking it is not as fluent as if I was immersed in it but ... I am now studying 8 languages (I currently only know 3) and I have no issue adding more info to my brain. And no, I am not a "fluff head" - nobody can say that I have nothing else to occupy my brain with. ;)
Perhaps you should try some nootropics. It sounds to me like your brain is not being optimized appropriately. Best wishes.
This guy got some skills
yup
+AlphaXGames what languages do you speak?
some...
bruh she could only speak like a few Words not actual long sentences
***** I can speak Italian Romanian English and Spanish I am learning Portuguese and I would love to learn Turkish
German here: Ur german accent is pretty good - I couldn't tell if you're a german or not! Damn good man!
agree
Aber er hat schon noch ein paar sehr kleine Fehler gemacht. Ist aber trotzdem hervorragend!
Jana Lila kenne deutsche die reden schlimmer als er
@@KrissyCosmetic es gibt zu viele 😂 die zu viele Fehler machen ahhhh
Selbst ich als deutsche kann kein richtiges deutsch HAHAHA
What I learned from this video: This guy has a lot of friends
Man i'm italian and you seem like an italian guy. I swear!
Un altro italiano!
@@cianob3654 Bella
Lo parla meglio di me...
Elio Devole Si, italiano
Tu sei Albanese no Italiano
I would have a problem remembering which languages i speak...
American?
@@LALA-yi1ui what??
@@LALA-yi1ui I was not talking about accents. I said "american?"
I understand english
@@LALA-yi1ui I never talked about accent. I asked if he is american. And no, I'm not muslim
@@abgartheblack8832 no mate, czech
Probably one of the best Dutch pronounciation that I heard from non-native Dutch speakers, very very well done 👏👏👏 Greetings from The Netherlands 😊🇳🇱
Hij deed me een beetje denken aan die stem bij SpongeBob 😂 maar idd wel goed te verstaan
Ik, kan Nederlands, Duits, Slovaaks, Tschechis, en Grieks. Groetjes vanuit Eindhoven.
Hij klonk een beetje als een Fransman maar wel heel helder en duidelijk!
I could even understand a bit because I can speak German a little
@@janavanherwijnen6195 ik kan Nederlands, Portugees, Spaans, Frans en Afrikaans praten, en ik ben 13 jaar oud
Teacher: the test is not that hard, it's easy!
The test:
Your German is really impressive. You could pass as a native speaker
Der Typ ist einfach nur Krass ,war auch geschockt,den vor allem Deutsch ist so zwiemlich das schwierigste für Neulinge .
Sogar seine Unsicherheit ist original die Unsicherheit eines Deutschen und er sagt einfach mal “Zwo” statt “Zwei”. Hahaha
Danke sehr:)
Privat ihrpisser
Das aller ärgste ist für mich das Ungarische.
Er kann Sprachen die nicht einmal linguistisch zur selben Gruppe gehören, das ist irr!
Adem Üner ja und sowas wie „geil“ ist ja auch eher Jugendsprachen
He speaks better Mandarin than me and I'm Chinese 😂
well,my Mandarin is already broken af......at least still able to speak Cantonese....ngor ge tsung man tsan hai hou tsa....
Just because you're Chinese doesn't mean you speak Chinese :)
Adrian Mei true
koi læ same
Zara Milusheva I listen to KPOP
Владимир, ваш русский прекрасен!
согласен
I'm really impressed, I thought your French was going to be a lot worse. The accent wasn't so bad and there were almost no mistakes. Félicitations!
It wasn’t bad. I’d say about a B1-B2 level.
The Mandarin was exceptional. I'm Chinese. He spoke just as good as me. Help.
Thank you very much :)
:o
VPN from China?
tawan
I'm here to judge his Polish! !!!
He spoke amazing.
I am proud.
Oliwia Klaman ja też tylko po to XD
killGA hobby
Oliwia Klaman Heloł Poliszu xd
Lily pozdrawiam
I'm Chinese. Didn't read the description so didn't expect would have Chinese. The moment he switched to Chinese I was honestly like wtf!! And that's honestly SO GOOD.
Persian here: Wow, I'm really impressed with your Farsi. You had a few pronunciations difficulties, but for someone who hasn't practiced a lot and hasn't even been to Iran, it was very astonishing. Honestly, I think the major issue non-native speakers have with Farsi is the informal (casual) and formal differences. The textbook formula and whatever is taught in classes is primarily in formal Farsi. The informal Farsi is used in day-to-day conversations and seems more fluent and smooth than formal. You , for example, used many informal phrases which are common but then used the formal pronunciation of a word.
All in all, I'm not sure if others have the same feeling, but I feel very happy and proud to know that someone (who is not in the Middle-East) is willing to learn Farsi. It might not seem easy at first, but It has a whole culture behind it and certainly doesn't disappoint.
Thank you for making my day!!
I only can speak German and English fluently... Now I'm feeling like a loser
Neko.Daisuki I can speak Serbian,because it's my native language,and I can speak English or German,but very bad,so I would say that you know more than me😀☺😉
Svetozar Bubalo 😊
Ich kann nur Englisch, Deutsch, Französisch und Italienisch, wobei ich Letzteres das letzte Mal vor ca. 4 Jahren in der Schule gesprochen hab. Also werden meine Italienischkenntnisse schon langsam nachlassen
Moritz Walser
Wohnst du in der Schweiz :o ?
Nein, in Bayern
Sein Deutsch ist sooo krass alter 😂
Timm Schulz ich höre einfach fast keinen akzent 😳
Timm Schulz ist halt echt so sein Akzent scheint fast garnicht da zu sein
Timm Schulz stimmt!
Timm Schulz ich kennt!😂
Eliza Guggenheimer Kannst du 19 Sprachen besser sprechen?
"Now these were my native languages, let's move on to the other languages, which I don't speak as well"
* proceeds to flex mandarin *
Me :O
For me the effect was even bigger, as I, being czech, understood everything till the czech part stopped and suddenly started the Mandarin part:D
Wow dein Deutsch ist echt gut!
💯
Ikr
Damn...He is absolutely an alien 100%
@Biracial Boy Takes something special to learn like this, along with hard work.
For sure man
Mark Zuckerberg *Press X to doubt*
Nah he's just super European
In German you sound pretty much like a native speaker, Jesus Christ, that's impressive....
Thank you. I tried my best:)
Ja, ich kann nur zustimmen
dude needs some water. but this is so impressive like i could never.
Amazing! I'm from 🇺🇸. I'm bilingual. I speak Italian and English fluently, Because my fathers parent are from Italy and spoke Italian to us. I'm currently learning Hungarian, it's SOOO DIFFICULT! This is just ASTONISHING!!! RESPECT BRUDDAH!!!
As a Hungarian I can confirm that Hungarian is difficult for us too lmao. But anyways good luck!
I’m trilingual and his french was amazing his accent was really good I would say
@@bazsamester Hungarian sounds like turkish to me. Is there any connection?
@@GratDuForloradeArgumentet Yes, there is. When the Hungarians were still in Asia, they were mixing a lot with the Turks, so their language also evolved similarly. Then fast forward to the 1500s, the Ottomans conquered Hungary for 150 years, that also left a huge impact on the Hungarian language.
@@bazsamester Ah that's too bad.
Duolingo: ur family is free to go 😌
XD
This is insane, how can you keep all these different languages well separated inside your head and not mix them up while speaking? You have an amazing talent, keep it up! By the way, your italian pronunciation is impressive!
Thank you. It's not easy for me either:)
Hey! How are you? Check Laoshu out .
As far as Italian and Japanese he is way better than Laoshu
@@sokidanz lol well yeah ofc
@@sokidanz I was introduced to Laoshu last year, was not expecting to know anyone else and this guy does pretty well, if not better. Laoshu knows some regional Chinese languages so touche to him.
Vladimir: Przepraszam za mój polski
Polacy po przesłuchaniu tego: O_O
On mówi bardziej zrozumiale niż większość Polaków
Duolingo help me translate this!!!!
Jego zasób słów jest naprawdę dobry
@@DCC69 Vladimir: I apologise for my pretty bad Polish
Poles after listening to him: o_o
Też byłam zdziwiona haha Ma naprawdę dobry akcent!
Holy shit, your German and French is perfect! (Coming from a Swiss)
Native english speaker be like : Two languages in one lifetime?! Nobody can live with that speed!
Florencia Edgina I live in England and grew up only speaking English. I wish I learned more as a kid but now im learning japanese and Spanish. I wish I could speak as many as some people but I can't remember that much
Utter Otter How old are you?
Sam Mxd 14
Utter Otter You are still young you can learn many languages 🤓
Russians are. I'm not a Russian, but am aware they struggle with English. 99,9% (imho) movies they watch are dubbed in Russian. I see a lot of comments in rutracker[.]org (largest torrent tracker) where they say about movies, tutorials, learning lessons etc.: too shame its not in Russian etc. I understand - they are proud of their language, BUT lazy in language learning. Of course it does not apply to many young people. Even many Russian people who lives here in Latvia for generations, can't put together a simple conversation in Latvian. I speak Russian from 1st grade. Fluent from 5th grade. (now 31 years old). Who disagrees with me is a hypocrite (i mean Russians, whether they are from Russia or Latvia). Вот так вот {Russian}.
Holy shitt. You’ve got mandarin’s tones down. I’ve never heard a foreigner put on such a good Taiwanese accent.
I'm french and italian, I just wanted ti say that you're amazing and your Italian and French are amazing. You have a lot of vocabulary I don't know😂
You're amazing !!!
I agree, I'm also French and Italian
HAHA MOI AUSSI CHUIS FRANCO ITALIENNEEEEE
@@ninaadrot-castorina6553 haha 😭😂 moi français seul mdr
Je suis français et anglais mdr France gang gang
European languages roll in, me:”thats impressive”, and he starts speaking Mandarin, I’m like WHAAAT am I hEaRiNG? Why is it so perfect?
Your German is absolutely perfect!!! No accent at all. Your french is really good, very few mistakes, and I love your accent it’s so cute hahah
Thank you. I tried my best:)
WHY YOUR ITALIAN IS SO GOOD ARE YOU MAD
:)
Vladimir Skultety
T'as un bon accent français
Je suis de Lyon, dans le Sud-Est de la France
You sound like a Romanian from Republic of Moldova 🤣😍 love it
Good job
exactly!!!!!
Parabéns pelo seu esforço, seu português é muito bom e espero te ver falando mais a nossa língua ☺️❤️
and I was proud of speaking 4 languages😂
me too xD
Joakim Hersche
me too
Hahahahahahaa
i was do proud with 4 languages😣
MR. MERCEDES Yeah I see your english is great
I can speak 7 :)
Du sprichst ja beinahe akzentfrei deutsch, Klasse!
Wirklich gut!
A slovencinu neviem tak dobre hodnotit, a ani pisat xxxxD
Der kann es wirklich
und der macht das selbe auch auf persisch,obwohl er meint er kann nicht so gut ,kraaaaassssss
Die Grammatik und Satzstrukturen sind echt high level
He speaks languages i didnt know that they are existed 😂😂😂😂
LMAO
For example?
Hahahahahahaha 😂
¿Por ejemplo?
For example? bruh
Miért csak most látom ezt a videót? Ez valami zseniális!
Le a kalappal előtted! :)
Örülök, hogy magyarul is beszélsz, mert azért elég sok magyarnak is nehezen megy ez a nyelv. :D Nagyon szép a kiejtésed, de tényleg!
Nem semmi!
incredible german!!!
Huy amba besser als viele Deutschen haha
Dude, marry me, and teach me all the languages!
:))
I am a deep lover of language..and appreciate it very much...ASL, French, Russian, Spanish, German, etc...the languages I have been familiar with..thanks for liking my comment, and keep up the good work!
Good luck with your studies:)
Vladimir Skultety thanks! Heavily into Spanish at the moment..
Vladimir Skultety Been doing this program called pro Spanish...you kind of learn intuitively...and through building sentences...so you are speaking right away...and not learning useless verbiage.
I am Taiwanese and your Chinese is really in amazing Taiwan accent. I am also surprised that your Taiwanese !! Hope one day I can speak so many languages like you. I can speak 4 languages now and that are Chinese中文, Taiwanese臺語, English and Thai ภาษาไทย.
That was cool! You truly are talented! I just loved listening to your Mandarin!
Wow! I am German and I must say that your German is just PERFECT! In Germany you would easily be mistaken for a German with that pronunciation! You are unbelievable!
Ja stimmt :D
Stimmt das war super!
kann da nur zustimmen
Same with his Russian!
Vor allem ZWO tausend fünfzehn. Boss move.
Very nice English .. not that bad French .. good Italian .. nice Spanish ..and so on..
But most above all..accents...which are the hardest part of a foreign language.. and you did it almost perfectly ...
Anyway .. you’re the real true proof how far a human brain can go ..
« Impressive » is the word.
and very good Hungarian...!!!
I do not know if the human brain can handle it so well ...🤔😳
@@hopparezimi4155 Hungarian is very difficult
Cat Sven his accent in spanish was actually kind of bad It was hard to understand some of the words he was saying because of his accent
I hate my accent. I'm from Czechia, and I think my english is pretty good, but when I'm talking... It's sounds horrible 😂
It's so nice to see someone on CZcams now, having an actual profession!
Умница. Талант. И, конечно, трудяга.
WTF maaaaan, you have a superpower in your brain or what ?
Muva u Letu a
Muva u Letu Its really amazing isnt. I only speak 3.... :(
It's really difficult to learn this many languages, although learning one isn't.
Hi
Muva u Letu I can speak Dutch and Luxembourgish
You completely shocked me when you started speaking Serbian. I was like "crap this is perfect!" Your accent was great as well, which I think is the hardest part of learning various languages. 👍 Congrats.
M M this is so true
Nije bilo Perfekt zato on nije izgovorio rečnik dobro. Nije š nego č. Ali bez toga bi bilo Perfekt.
im croatian and i was impressed and understood everything lol
I’m Bosnian and I can’t imitate the Serbian accent. And it’s the same language haha
Mind blowing talent 👏🏻
Bravo majstore, svaka ti čast! 👏👏👏 Ustao sam i aplaudiram.
Ele é tão sincero e ele fala Português tão bem, que incrível isso, meus parabéns!!!
Dein Deutsch ist der Wahnsinn, man denkt du bist deutscher 🙏🏻 auch wie du die Zeitformen sprichst, MEGA COOL 🙏🏻
Danke sehr.
leonie rose fand ich nicht so. Also klar dass ist echt krass und wirklich gut aber n native kann man schon unterscheiden
@@stillx1211 Man merkt es ein wenig an der Aussprache des"ch". Aber mal im Ernst, ich find das soo beeindruckend, dass es Menschen gibt die in einem solchen Ausmaß fremde Sprachen lernen wollen und können. Bin immer wieder baff, wenn ich das sehe...
Isso
Ja, es ist wirklich krass wie gut er spricht!!! 😮
If you went to Hungary people won't even notice that you are Slovakian!
Ez így van! / That's right!
Well he is Slovakian and not Hungarian
I agree
+Roman Scuka Thats the point
+Peter Jacguier my mother language is hungarian and he speaks it perfectly!
Gezz. Even the ones he didn't speak 'well' were o.o His Asian accents were amazing and sounded really good. I bet he would be able to learn Korean VERY easy, as it's one of the simplest Asian languages, especially if he can speak MANDARIN like THAT!
You did a great job. My compliments to you. I also have a knack for languages, but growing up in the States, had only English until I went to high school, where I started French. When I got to university, I majored in French, minored in Italian, and took Spanish and Russian, as well as a semester of German. I went to work for Pan American World Airways (aka Pan Am) as a steward in 1979 and got to travel the world. I learned Brazilian Portuguese, which is much more musical and sensual than Continental Portuguese. I love its slang and bossa nova, jazz, & MPB. I also learned airplane Japanese, and had so much fun with passengers from Japan. I later lived in Hawai’i and studied Hawaiian language-a totally different language family.
Learning languages is always worth it.
Keep up the great work! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
U speak serbian better than me and i am from serbia hahah
But only in the video:)
Vladimir Skultety but u know it and i know only english german and serbian xd
Your Russian is brilliant! Ti govorish na Russkom velikolepno!
Stefan Scarlet: "I was expecting greek language how could you ignore greek language, a bit dissapointed :( good job tho"
You know, the video is about two years old and there were about a thousand comments beneath it like yours, but I'll try to answer again. A lot of people asked: Why didn't you learn Greek? Why didn't you learn Arabic? Why didn't you learn Hindi? Why didn't you learn Korean? Why didn't you learn any African language? Why didn't you learn any Malay? Why didn't you learn any Swedish? Why didn't you learn any Albanian? Why didn't you learn any Turkish? One person even called me a Turkish hater, because I don't speak Turkish..
I don't understand these questions, really. I would never ask anyone with an irritated tone: Why didn't you learn any Slovak (my native language)? I think everyone is entitled to learn what they want and I would definitely not be upset if someone wouldn't learn my native language. It's like a football player getting mad at everyone and asking why they don't play football. A lot of Greeks were even insulted that I didn't learn their language too..how can this be? I understand that Ancient Greek is an important language, but so is Sanskrit, Latin or Classical Arabic and I didn't learn those either. I didn't do it intentionally. I just never had the chance, opportunity or time to learn Greek or any of these languages. It actually feels really strange explaining something logical like this. My life evolved in a completely different way. I lived most of my life in Slovakia, two years in the USA, 5 years in Taiwan, 2 years in the Czech republic, most of the languages I learned I had to learn for work, school or for very practical reasons or because of some really strong attachment to the language. Why would I learn Greek? There was nothing disrespectful in my question. I honestly don't know why I should spend another 2-3 years of my life intensively studying Greek when: I don't live in Greece, I have no Greek friends (again, it's nothing intentional, it's just how my life evolved), I don't have plans to live in Greece, I don't work for a Greek company, I am not interested in Greek literature (again, nothing disrespectful), not interested in Greek history, am not particularly interested in understanding the roots of words like "epidermal, encephalon, telephone, chronometer.." and similar words in other European languages and so on. I wrote a similar response about Arabic and some people really got seriously insulted. I wasn't questioning the importance of Arabic at all.. of course it is an important language..I was just trying to explain that it's natural that you don't learn something. It's like me getting mad at you for not being a doctor, or something similar. And... even if Greek was the most important language in the world.. I still think everyone is at their own liberty to decide whether they would like to learn it or not. If Slovak was the most important language in history, I would never get mad, or feel insulted if someone decided not to learn it.
If you are still not speaking Serbian well you can learn it with me if you want
Vladimir Skultety yes you're absolutely right, I wish one day I will know more languages but I don't have much time for practice now, I only speak 3 languages really well (Ukrainian, Russian and English), and I'm learning 3 other languages (French, German and Czech). All I can say it would be very easy to you to learn Ukrainian, if you have ever been interested in it, i personally admitted that both Ukrainian and Russian helped me in learning Czech, but Ukrainian is a bit more similar to it. Also Hungarian and Slovak are popular to learn in a Zakarpattia region of Ukraine, especially near the border.
P.S. For me the easiest language is Belarusian, I've never learned it and still can understand 95% of it.
My EX YU friend,listen,why are you even bothering about those comments,you speak 19 languages which is impressive enough.Maybe i would feel a little disapointed if you didnt speak serbian but i know that all that dedication and hard work needs to be respected,so just BUDI OPUSTEN I VELIKI POZDRAV IZ SRBIJE!
Filip Simic Hes not ex yu Hes Slovák not slovene
Vladimir Skultety well said
TONS OF CONGRATS FOR HOW WELL YOU'VE WORKED ON YOUR PRONUNCIATION MAN!
Another polyglot here, so I can understand how good your pronunciation is in a few of your languages.
BRAVO BRAVO BRAVO!!!
Your Portuguese sounds amazing ❤️
Hello and thank you for all your comments. I wanted to answer some of the more frequent questions:
Q: What is your job?
A: I work as an interpreter of English, Slovak and Mandarin Chinese.
Q: What was the most difficult language you've ever studied?
A: Mandarin Chinese.
Q: How old are you?
A: I was 32 in the video, I'm 35 now.
Q: Which language do you like most?
A: Difficult to say, because if I didn't like the languages I speak, I would've never learned them, so I like every language I have studied for this or that reason but if I had to pick a favorite it would be: Hungarian, Russian, Cantonese and Persian.
Q: Which language do you dream in/think in?
A: I don't even know. Probably those that I use most often: Slovak, English, Mandarin.
Q: When did you start learning foreign languages?/How long did it take you to learn all the languages you speak?
A: I don't think there was a starting moment in my life. I grew up with 2-3 native languages and spoke 5 at an almost native level by the time I was 13 and just continued learning languages here and there as I grew up. As for how long it took me, it took me my entire life.
Q: Could you give me some tips to learn language XYZ?
A: Sure. I have a blog where I wrote probably everything I think about language learning (www.foreverastudent.com). Feel free to check it out. I could write here too but I would only be repeating myself.
Q: What is your secret?
A: There is no secret, only passion, lots of time spent on practice, good conditions and a bit of talent.
Q: Where are you from?
A: I was born and lived most of my life in Slovakia.
Q: You made a mistake in the French part. It shouldn't be 'ce video' it should be 'cette video'.
A: Thank you, I'll remember.
Q: You made a mistake in the Serbian part. It should't be 'kuči' but 'kući'.
A: Thank you. I realized it the moment I said it.
Q: The Spanish part was too short.
A: I know. I'll make a video where I speak only Spanish next time.
Q: You didn't learn Greek! You should be ashamed of yourself.
A: I got about 50 similar comments. I have no intelligent answer for this. People help me out:)
Q: Why didn't you learn Arabic? Armenian? Hindi? Indonesian? European Portuguese? Greek?... I'm dissapointed.
A: I never had a good reason or interest.
Q: Were you ever interested in learning Scandinavian languages?
A: Originally no, because I never had a chance or good reasons to learn them, plus it's too cold for me up there, but recently I read a book by Stieg Larsson and got a bit interested, so maybe I will.
Q: You don't speak Portuguese, you speak Brazillian. Why did you learn that ugly Brazillian Portuguese and not the real Portuguese from Portugal?
A: I must've gotten about 100 comments like this and worse. I honestly don't understand why all the hate against Brazillian Portuguese from Portugal. I just felt silly writing 'Brazillian' instead of 'Portuguese' especially since as far as I know the official language of Brazil is called Portuguese, not Brazillian. It's like saying I speak 'American' instead of 'English'. But, lesson learned, next time I will proudly say I learned 'Brazillian Portuguese'. I learned Brazillian Portuguese because: I love its sound, wonderful Brazillian smiling people, the country, the music, the nature and because I'd like to live there one day..
Q: Great Chinese but you speak with a Taiwanese accent.
A: I lived in Taiwan for 5 years. I don't know how to speak in any other way.
+Vladimir Skultety Mi a horoszkópod? ;)
His german is very good😮👌
Jaa :D
+Name: Michelle, Vorname: Ach scheiße isso
I was wondering. I'm learning German and it sounded weird to me. I guess I still hear it slow!
his serbian is also perfect.
I am baff....
+Toni Caffierro I think he said he drew up speaking it. His French and Spanish sounds similar to the Baltic (?) languages... not a criticism. He certainly speaks them effortlessly. Anyway very impressive and also illustrates the importance of growing up multilingual which is so good for the brain and opens the door to being a polyglot... for all the vids I've seen, he transitions and speaks without hesitation.. kudos...!
10:00 Cara seu português é bom,você pronúncia bem, se passar três meses no Brasil voce fica com um sotaque muito bom. Parabéns 🇧🇷🇵🇹
Até que fim um BR
Eu fico surpresa ao ver que muitos estudantes da língua portuguesa estudam o pt-br. É curioso. 🤔
@@harukatakahiro4690 por que voce fica surpresa?
@@harukatakahiro4690 Brasil possui 200 milhões de falantes nativos. Portugal possui apenas 10 milhões.
@@harukatakahiro4690 É a mesma coisa que perguntar porque a maioria das pessoas estudam o inglês americano ao invés do inglês britânico, kkk é simplesmente por causa da visibilidade e quantidade de pessoas do país.
His german was perfect... , but ofc all the other languages are impressive as well.
maybe his grammar is not flawless in the languages, but his pronounciations are very good in every sinlge one of them
That makes me think that maybe he didn't read this from a script and perhaps really ad libbed it. That would be impressive indeed.
It depends I'm portuguese and his portuguese is very good but his pronounciation is very close to the brazilian one
I'm Brazilian, yeah it's definitely Brazilian accent, and I can say his vowels are on point; pretty impressive! No other foreigner I've heard before could make nasal vowels without sounding either a little off, or as if they're putting too much effort.
How do you know?
Sebastián Valentino
by simply knowing a few of the languages
His smile is brighrter than my future
To je úžasné!!!! 😱😱😱😱😱 Od kolika se učíte jazyky a jakto, že Vám to tak jde od ruky?!😱😱😍😍😍😍😍 Velká závist.😍😍😍
Your Italian, Farsi and Portuguese are amazing, I don't speak the other languages, but these three are outstandig!
Human brain is amazing!!
Yes, it is
where are you from?
+Carlitox b his brain is
ok
+Carlitox b it is, but not this one. I admire his knowledge of languages, but it's really USELESS without rich vocabulary. He knows how to compose sentences so they make sense - grammar, but his vocabulary is poor. But simply, he is not able to speak and communicate such as the guy that the certain language is native to him. He could not communicate in shop, restaurant, conference and on technical level. So this is REALLY USELESS. All he knows is a few (yes, it is a few, because the vocabulary could be really rich compared to his) words and a basics of language which is sentence composing and tenses, and the other grammar thing.
+Peter Ludek
Learning languages takes time. The area between knowing nothing and being 100% fluent is large. He's somewhere in the middle, which is where every fluent person once was. The learning process is NEVER useless.
Your Dutch is great, don't worry!
Kind off, he sounds like hes from drenthe
his accent is so funny xD
+Nina de Krijger Dutch sounds like an awsome language :D
+Martine Hollenberg hij heeft een beetje een frans accent ofzo.
+Martine Hollenberg De grammatica vooral is verrassend goed
Oh boy! You did an absolute great job!
I don't know about other languages but Farsi was so cool, I enjoyed
Really well done👍👏
Čau, som Slovenka tiež! I’m so impressed with your ability to speak these languages. Your Slovak and Czech is perfect and that’s about all I understand here, haha. Judging from the comments, you seem to be great in every language! Kudos to you!
I am brazilian and I'm able to say that your portuguese is much better than the most brazilians.
Congratulations!
He speaks better than Dilma.
+Melk Porto hahaahha
acertô mizeravi
Ele fala Português de Portugal. O Português dele é perfeito, mas tem uma pronúncia um pouco ruim, principalmente na parte do "R".
é claramente do brasil
The great achievement will be of speaking those languages fluently and with no accent at all.
I don't think there is anyone now or in history who can or could do that.
Vladimir Skultety that's my point. I'm just sometimes perfectionist. :-P
Shame Usain Bolt didn't run the 100 meters in Beijing under 5 seconds right? :)
Vladimir Skultety yes I got you and agree. Still his legs does not hurt.
Still what you are doing it encourage people to go for it and learn and go far beyond their limits. Recently I heard Mark Zuckerberg speaking Chinese.
Amazing! You motivate me so much! I am starting to learn French language as my 5th Language . Well done!
This dude speaks the best italian I've ever heard from a foreigner in terms of pronunciation, truly inspiring (ironically I'm gonna move to the same city as he lived in in a few weeks)
Dein deutsch ist verfickt gut, sogar mit umgangsformen wie "zwo" für "zwei".
Danke sehr:)
Willi Rehmer hab ich mir grad auch gedacht, nice!
Ja, unglaublich
Ja, ich bin wirklich beeindruckt. Deine Ausdrucksweise ist perfekt, wie jemand, der schon lange Deutsch spricht!
Manche Leute kriegen das in 20 Jahren nicht hin. Traurig aber wahr
Jesus christ how much dota and csgo have you played man
Zero.
Mantrata lmfao
Mantrata ahahahahahahahahah I fell off my chair ahahahaah
Seu português estar perfeito, adorei mano que lindo!!!
The Romanian bit's accent was on point! Keep making progress even if you don't know much it's still a lot to get the pronunciation right! You really inspire me to keep up with language learning. Thanks for the vid!
Chinese is so on point, but with the Taiwan accent on 👌👍 such a pro
Thank you. But why say 'but'? Seems like a TW accent is a bad thing:) I lived in Taiwan for 5 years.
Idk 😂😂 Taiwan accent is not bad I love it, but I can't help but say but... I feel so stupid right now for knowing only five languages..
Rachel Ong 5 languages is amazing, come on!
Well 19 language is pretty darn 3 times more amazing 🙋
Rachel Ong I don't speak all of them fluently
Your italian accent was wonderful. Said by an Italian.
Thank you:)
Wow wow wow ! Congratulations on speaking so many languages so well. Thank you for sharing your linguistic skills! You are amazing.
You speak so fast!
It's amazing!
I am a Chinese who speaks Italian and Spanish, this dude's Italian and Spanish are almost native, moreover, in spite of the strong Taiwanese accent, he is one of the best foreign Mandarin speakers I have ever seen in my life, seriously... For me, any foreign people that can communicate in my language earn a lot of my respect because I know how hard it is to learn, and to this dude... Geez what can I say.....you killed it bro, this is sick!! Good job!
Thank you.
just what's wrong with the Taiwanese accent...cause the way you mention it makes me feel like you don't see it as Mandarin, but if that's not what you meant then sorry about this comment dude. Anyway, agreed with you that +Vladimir Skultety does speak Mandarin well, respect !!
No ha hablado tanto en español como para poder valorar su fluidez. El español es uno de los idiomas más difíciles de aprender, y poca gente he visto que lo hable mucho. No es una crítica, solo deseo que siga mejorando con el español, y le envío muchos ánimos. 😃
Karnak07 ¿De dónde sacaste esta tontería? Una de las más difíciles? Más que Mandarin, Japones, Escocés, Árabe, Hebreo, Hindi? Hay muchas otras lenguajes mucho más difíciles que las lenguas Romanicas (Romance)
Vladimir Skultety I'm Italian, and I can assure you that your Italian accent is almost perfect, typical of the area where you lived. Very well done!!!
Wow, I was actually pretty impressed by your Polish, because even though I could hear you're not a native speaker, the accent was actually really, really good and your grammar was perfect, which is really uncommon for non-natives.
Are you polish
WOW!!! 👏👏👏👏👏
You have amazing talent in learning languages 👌👍👍👍
I enjoyed your video very much.
Thank You. Bravo Vladimir ✊✊✊😊
Even when you spoke a little bit of Spanish I’m very impressed of your accent. It’s very clear. 👏🏽 and thank you for your video 😅 this inspired me not to give up with German 💪🏽 Saludos desde Colombia 🇨🇴
Holy shit, your German accent is perfect! :o To be honest, If I hadn't known that you're from Slovakia, I couldn't have distinguished you from a native speaker.
Thank you very much. I tried my best:)
Das ist der Wahnsinn ... :O
TheSarahStory abnormal!!
Vorallem so akzentfrei. Respekt
Vladimir, what you are is really something greater than a talent!!! I am shocked, especially with how fast you talk! You are something else, RESPECT is the least i can say
Nagy vagy Vlado! Gratulálok, szép teljesítmény.
Nagyon szepen koszonom.
I cant even speak my own fkn language and suddenly everybody here are speaking 5or 6 languages!wow!
Punk Grim lol.
Punk Grim welcome to Europe dude! ;)
Punk Grim Im born in Bulgaria,and I speak:
1.Bulgarian
2.Russian
3.Czech&Slovakian
4.English
5.German
and I understand and can communicate in all the Slavic languages ;)
In german schools you'll learn 2-3 languages. Im in 11th class and know im learning my 6th language
Chuki wirklich?
На русском почти без акцента.
@sentinel scourge I am russian and trust me he really speaks almost without accent
sentinel scourge lol that’s because those languages are almost similar 😅 I’m Russian, trust me🌚🌚🌚
sentinel scourge I’m Russian too and he really doesn’t any accent. Only a little bit.
@sentinel scourge Dude, russian is my native language and I can tell that his pronunciation is indistinguishable from native speakers' pronunciation. There was some grammatical mistakes, but to jump straight into russian and start speaking like this after 5 different languages (including mandarin) is just incredible.
@sentinel scourge whaaat? I'm Russian and when he started talking on it I actually thought he was from Russia. He don't have ANY accent. He is the best foreign russian speaker
Vladimír máte nielen talent na reči, vy ste génius. Gratulujem a prajem vam všetko dobré