How Many Languages Can One Speak? (Polyglots, Hyperpolyglots & Amazing Language Learners)
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Today I am going to talk about how many languages is it possible to learn and speak as well as what it takes to become a polyglot.
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Luca Lampariello dipende a che livello ma secondo me oltre una cinquantina di lingue e' praticamente impossibile a un livello avanzato ma ad un livello da A2 a B2 si puo' riuscire anche a un centinaio...ma e' molto raro sicuramente...casi come Mezzofanti sono pochissimi quasi impossibile ma ci sono ...Un incredibile super talentuoso poliglotta puo' riuscire ad una 60ina a un livello medio B1-B2 forse ..iniziando dall' eta' di 10 anni fino a 90 anni...il vero problema e' mantenerle al livello che si e' raggiunto ognuna di loro la vedo piuttosto dura...
I think it really depends how much the languages you're speaking have in common, which seems like a very artificial way to choose which language you want to invest time into learning. It doesn't matter how many languages you speak, just how much you can use the languages you speak and what you get out of the process of learning them.
Some languages are much harder to learn than others, some languages share such similar roots that learning news words is often a matter of saying it in a new, but predictable way.
I think to just try to keep pushing the number of languages you've spoken (probably a more accurate description) is necessarily going to result in sacrifices in other worthy endeavors. It's fun to be good at something, but remember to challenge yourself with different pursuits.
I truly believe you can speak more than 20 languages! I just discovered that a 13 y/o speaks 20 languages! 🥴
Also, isn’t one thing to speak as another is to read and write?!
I think it's possible 10-15 languages with maintaining a close to native level I think it's possible. If someone can do more I think it will be amazing but the maintaining even with technology it will become very demanding on the individual.
Luca is a real polyglot, he has advanced level (C1-C2) speaking 5 languages or more. I'm not interested in so-called "hyper-polyglots (20-30 lang)" who have awful pronunciation and broken grammar to just impress us with endless list of foreign languages they picked up somehow. Quality over quantity
Spot on Arsen ! Luca is genuine. I think there is an italian idiom which say's "between saying and doing there is the sea"...something like tra dire e fare c'e il mare . There are always sow-off's. Sad people who live in the world of dreams . They take people for being idiots when they believe what they say, that is insulting. Why pretend to be something you clearly are not ? They are fooling nobody but themselves !They will sometime get caught out.
@@solea59 Agree. By the way In Italiano è Tra il dire e il fare ce' di mezzo il mare.
Brian Saltmarsh for real. I love watching their videos and when they get to a language I know it’s just ...........terrible
My personal goal as well, is to reach a higher level of fluency in a language before moving to the next one. Even if it takes five years each.
Agreed I'm learning multiple languages at one time and it can get difficult with pronunciation so I want to be advanced before I even think about so called showing off.
Being a busy 25yro mom, wife and full-time bartender, I often found myself struggling to keep up with my beloved learning foreign languages pass-time, because of the lack of time and sometimes motivation.
I am a native Italian (which makes me so proud when I watch Luca's videos), fluent in English and French, intermediate in Mandarin Chinese and Portuguese, and have just begun wrapping my head around Czech.
I am nowhere near Luca's level of accuracy in grammar and confidence in speaking, but I just wanted to list You, my fellow language learner who are reading these few lines, a few very practical TIPS that dramatically increased my learning process even though I can only dedicate about 30/40 minutes a day to my studies:
-keep your study materials well in sight (i keep my books tidy and organized on the side of my husband's desk so I can see them everyday).
- first thing in the morning take a quick look at what you learned yesterday and start using it right away (like this morning while I was making breakfast for the kids I'd sing a little made-up song involving new words like "now the cookie is about to jump in the milk, but the milk is hot and it will drown"
-involve other family members in your learning journey, even if they're not interested (I'd randomly tell my husband if he could da dianhua me when he gets to the huochezhan and I swear he's actually learning some mandarin while I practise and internalize it).
-watch movies or bits of movies and cartoons in the target language, my kids don't speak a word of portuguese but they seem to still comprehend most of the story and they even laugh at jokes that I don't necessarily grasp right away, so I am both studying and taking care of them at the same time.
My secret is, again, buing a very busy family person, since I can't put myself in the right environment for a specific language to learn (I cant move to China and say goodbye to everything I have here), I am CREATING MY OWN ENVIRONMENT and with immense joy it's been more than a year and everybody in my house is natuarlly becoming somewhat of a polyglot without even noticing it.
Hope this will be helpful to at least one other person.
Ps- Luca sei un orgoglio nostrano come pochi altri, orgogliosa di te e della buona luce in cui ci metti agli occhi del mondo, un abbraccio.
Elena Tabani.
Luca Lampariello is the greatest polyglot ever. They even make t-shirts with his name on! And he deserves the fame.
Aahha I love your sense of humor Anthony! You are one of a kind =)
@@LucaLampariello Can I get such a T-shirt online anyways? :P
@@langsandbella Not yet, but you might...soon =)
@@LucaLampariello Dope! I can't wait, then :D
Your English sounds so natural.. amazing!
his spanish too
Thanks! =)
@@LucaLampariello except for your pronunciation of "semi". other than that, near-native English
@@chumkrimson8161 Thanks for the feedback! I was convinced you pronounce it both ways ("semai" and sehmee"). Thanks to you guys I learn something new about English for every video I make =)
@@LucaLampariello we (at least Americans) say "sehmee" or "sehmai", not "seemai"
Great video. I prefer to become a master in 7 or 8 languages instead of being only average in 50 or more tongues.
Me too! =)
It is "master of" not "master in." So long ways to go.
@@mkelkar1 I write the way that I want. No grammar rules for me in the moment.
Me too
@@osonhodeleon constructive criticism shouldn't be dismissed that easily. Also, maintaining the exact grammar structure of your native language while speaking another isn't going to help you be a master. Valeu?
Am I the only freak who check out his librabry collection durin the entire video?
I was about to say that hahaha
Nope.
You are not alone 🤭
Me too
No you're not hh
I am 24 and I currently speak 4 languages fluently-Bulgarian, which is my native thongue, English-C1, Russian-C1 and Spanish-C1. I am now learning French as a fifth language. My goal is to speak 4 foreign languages in C1, so I have the French left to reach that goal (currently A2). I also understand a bit of Czech, Croatian, Serbian, Italian and Portuguese but that doesn't mean I know them. For me knowing a language means having C1 or at least B2. I don't need to speak 10 languages, I prefer to speak 5 languages fluently and use them on a daily basis. That way I will never forget them. People who jump from one language to another end up forgetting it all.
Exactly. I speak three languages at a C1 or above level and can easily function in any of the three all day long. To me, if you can’t do that, then you’re not really fluent in a language.
man your English is a decent B2 at best. some of these comments where I see people using such a broken grammar, poor choice of words and simple sentence structure, yet claiming to have achieved C1 make me think I've already reached a native-like level in English, which is far from truth. For me, qualifying for the C-range levels means you gotta express yourself not any much different from how a native speaker would. that is, making use of a shit-ton of colloquialisms, decent pronunciation, although I wouldn't see that as a requirement etc.
I'm not able to write a paper in an academical way for the sake of it, yet I think I would struggle to do that in my native language as well. i also make loads of mistakes in English but I've never contemplated over these, the same way neither would a native speaker do. This is what C1 and C2 looks like, you'll know what I'm saying when you get here
Not really, if one would be C1, one would definitely know that tongue isn’t spelled thongue, for example... In truth, most ppl think they are C1, but they are actually B1 or B2... C1 is native speaker level, and if one doesn’t know at least 10.000 base words (15.000+ words) in a language and if one doesn’t have an automatic mode in that language, one isn’t C1 level, most ppl are just B1 or B2 level, but think they are C1 because they tend to use simple words and simple sentences, but there are over 100.000 words in most pretty languages, for example, and English has nearly 1.5 million words...
But anyways, technically, one can learn multiple languages, and if one truly learns the words and develops an automatic mode in the language, there is no need to ‘maintain’ it, once a word becomes part of the permanent memory and automatic memory, that word cannot be forgotten - I highly recommend learning Dutch / Old Norse / Norwegian / Icelandic / Danish / Welsh / Breton / Cornish / Gallo / Slovene / Galician / Hungarian / Portuguese etc, these languages are all so gorgeous!
Even though most ppl cannot learn a language fast, it doesn’t take years of intense study to get fluent in one language for everyone, it depends on the learner and on the learning techniques etc and on the languages, and pretty languages such as Germanic languages and Celtic languages etc that are category 1 or category 2 languages can be learned super fast, plus one can learn multiple languages at the same time to save years, that way, in two or three years, one will be fluent in multiple languages, not just one - if one truly learns a language to a native speaker level, it means one already has an automatic mode in the new languages, so the words cannot be forgotten if they have already become part of the permanent memory and automatic memory, however, if x forgets the words if he doesn’t use the language, it means x hasn’t seen those words enough times for them to become part of the permanent memory and automatic memory!
Ciao Luca! Francesco from Rome here :)
Thanks for the video! I would like to see more of the maintaining aspects of the polyglot lifestyle.
I think the most important skill is to maintain multiple languages at the same time, not really learning them.
I have been learning new languages for the last five years, I have mastered some and forgotten others, sometimes even after multiple attempts.
The key for a polyglot is to create a system, a polyglot lifestyle, only after you become one.
I am living in different European countries, mainly Spain and Italy, with my bilingual Spanish/Basque girlfriend, English friends and to browse the internet, Brazilian relatives, a large number of German tourists where I grew up, French at school.
“The secret is not to take care of the butterflies, but to take care of the garden so the butterflies come to you.”
Mario Quintana
Grazie Luca :)
Hugs to all the polyglot community out there!
Ciao Francesco! You got a very interesting multilingual story =) "The key for a polyglot is to create a system, a polyglot lifestyle, only after you become one" You hit the nail on the head =) One of the videos I will publish this year deals about language maintenance, which is particularly important when it comes to speaking (and maintaining) a large number of languages. And I love the quote! =) Hugs from Krakow =)
Bellissima citazione di Mario Quintana! Bravo! “O segredo não é correr atrás das borboletas... é cuidar do jardim para que elas venham até você! Sono commossa, perchè mi piace questa poesia. Abbraccio dal Brasile
Was always interested in this question. Cause there HAS to be a limit for a person's ability to learn and what's more important to maintain multiple language knowledge.
Yes, I think the limit is mainly due to our finiteness in terms of time and space, but also in terms of memory due to the factors I mentioned in the video (and many other factors!)
Technically, one can learn multiple languages, and if one truly learns the words and develops an automatic mode in the language, there is no need to ‘maintain’ it, once a word becomes part of the permanent memory and automatic memory, that word cannot be forgotten - I highly recommend learning Dutch / Old Norse / Norwegian / Icelandic / Danish / Welsh / Breton / Cornish / Gallo / Slovene / Galician / Hungarian / Portuguese etc, these languages are all so gorgeous!
Even though most ppl cannot learn a language fast, it doesn’t take years of intense study to get fluent in one language for everyone, it depends on the learner and on the learning techniques etc and on the languages, and pretty languages such as Germanic languages and Celtic languages etc that are category 1 or category 2 languages can be learned super fast, plus one can learn multiple languages at the same time to save years, that way, in two or three years, one will be fluent in multiple languages, not just one - if one truly learns a language to a native speaker level, it means one already has an automatic mode in the new languages, so the words cannot be forgotten if they have already become part of the permanent memory and automatic memory, however, if x forgets the words if he doesn’t use the language, it means x hasn’t seen those words enough times for them to become part of the permanent memory and automatic memory!
Old Norse is one of the prettiest languages I’ve ever seen, it has real gorgeous words like erfiði / yfir / haf / vindr / dyn / skegg / dróttinn / veit / drengr / fjall / hǫnd / fisksins / lengr / hvassir / rauðr / hvarr / grænn / hvat / líkligr / hǫss / afi / frændi / heitir / veð / hráka / þó / kvern / mælti / hét / setja / hinn / kveða / sinn / leið / brott / knerri / við / dýr / með / heyra / eða etc, and the word endings (like nir and inn and sins etc) and the letter combinations are so pretty, just like the word endings and letter combinations in English and Dutch and Norwegian - I can’t stop learning new pretty words in Old Norse and Icelandic (and the other pretty languages) and they are really áddìctive to look at and read and hear in lyrics etc, I’ve been listening to Skáld songs in Old Norse and Icelandic since I found the first song in Old Norse (Troll Kalla Mik) and I’ve memorized most of those lyrics!
Dutch words are just too pretty not to know, and 83 of the prettiest words in Dutch are - ver, vlinder, verloren, feest, adem, vaste, veel, verdween, heel, het, heen, voorbij, vandaan, verven, domein, verwaald, drijfzand, lief, leegte, liefde, heerst, einde, zonder, weet, avond, vult, gekomen, centrum, moment, pad, loop, overheerst, vallen, twijfel, vinden, kelde, wald, ter, geweest, vrees, grenzen, verleg, rein, van, stellen, wilde, steeds, verstreken, evenbeeld, bleef, steile, vrede, stem, wens, net, tijd, stille, verwenst, zalig, ochtend, zilverreiger, weer, overwint, heerlijk, zin, hart, beweert, vanaf, kwijt, wolken, mes, verliezen, dwaling, verlaten, rede, trek, tuinhek, brand, verdien, blikje, vertellen, verder, vertrek...
Your eloquence is astonishing. The result of your extremely organized mind. Bravo.
thanks Luca! I've been watching for several years and always find your videos enjoyable and informative. I am about to begin the study of my fourth language! You and the other polyglots you mentioned are are so inspiring!
Thanks Luca, one of my favorite channels
Me encanta este tipo de contenido !!!! Gracias por tu trabajo !
Thank you so much Luca!!! 🙏🙏You are such a humble, realistic and helpful polyglot!! I take your tips about language learning quite seriously!! Grazie mille!!🙋♀️
Vídeo muito bom, Luca. Não só sua capacidade de falar várias línguas fluentemente é impressionante, como também sua capacidade de se comunicar naturalmente. Acho que existe alguma conexão entre ambas as coisas.
Enfim, se um dia for de seu interesse, grave um vídeo sobre sua trajetória de aprendizado das línguas que fala, pois aposto que tem muita gente curiosa a respeito, e não só isso, sobre como uma após a outra ajudou na seguinte e assim por diante. Forte abraço, meu caro!
Hey Luca! :) Thank you for this informative video! I'm from Germany and currently learning Spanish and you are a huge inspiration and motivation for me!!
Thanks a bunch for the nice words Mona =)
Luca, you yourself are one of the super language learners you talk about! In my opinion you qualify for the title of hyperpolyglot.
Thanks for the nice words Alex!
Really good, thank you! We are waiting more motivation videos about language learning!
It is absolutely true: one language is a new whole world :)
In Dutch, we have a saying: “zoveel malen is men man, als men talen spreken kan”. 😊
Grazie come sempre Luca
Such an interesting topic of the video, great ideas! Thank you so much! ❤️
I really wish there was more video material of Lomb Kató. She seems like such an amazing person.
Always inspiring. Thank you.
Grande Luca, mi piace un sacco questo nuovo format di video! Davvero ben fatto, fai altri video così! 😁
Grazie caro ;-)
Thank you for mentioning Lomb Kato, I'm Hungarian. ❤️
Like your channel, just started to watch your videos. 👍
Amazing video Luca! I totally agree with you 👍
Merci beaucoup, très intéressante ta vidéo. Salutations du Québec.
It's always nice hear you my friend... Inspiring!! 🇧🇷Hi from Brazil 🇧🇷
Heuheuehe
Excellent video, Luca! 👍😊
Luca, eres increíble! Espero algún día tener tanto conocimiento como tu, estoy empezando mi camino para convertirme en Poliglota, y ver tus videos son una excelente fuente de inspiración. 💚
Yo también espero convertirme en políglota. ¿Cuántos idiomas hablas ahora?
@@angelbrown1626 Hablo Inglés y Español, y ahora llevo casi 6 meses estudiando Japonés de manera autodidacta. Y tu?
@@leandrorangel9385 Ingles es mi lengua materna y tengo casi nivel B2 en espanol. Quiero estudiar aleman y coreano.
@@angelbrown1626 Bueno, trabaja duro y mantente motivado, ese es el truco. ✌🏻
Yo apenas estoy comenzando con este camino y algunos de los idiomas que quiero aprender luego adquirir una base en Japonés son el Francés, Ruso y Portugués.
@@leandrorangel9385 Sabiendo español el portugues se te va a hacer muy fácil, suerte con tus estudios y sigue asi 💪
I have been learning English for a year with your videos, right now my English is not very well, but I'm trying.
Thank you so much!
My native language is filipino/tagalog, second language here in the philippines is English and my 3rd language is Spanish and i tried to learn bahasa indonesia last april
I'm Spanish from Honduras, now in Cambodia, and I plan to learn Tagalog in my quest to become a Pokemon master I mean Language Master.
Io credo dipenda da 3 fattori:
1) Il tuo obiettivo. Non è lo stesso voler arrivare ad un C1che ad un B1.
2) Il tempo a disposizione.
3) la propensione verso le lingue. Gli ulta-poliglitti, normalmente, amano gli idiomi ed hanno un'inclinazione naturale verso l'acqusizione delle lingue.
Dipendendo da questi 3 fattori, il numero puó variare da 1 al limite della tua immaginazione e voglia.
@hsyegwi riiehejee Esatto. Vai tranquillo. Vedo che giá scrivi bene!
I am close to be a polyglot .... And it have been a long journey for 35 years . I'm a native speaker in Spanish and Hebrew because of my parents, mother from Mexico and father from Israel... I have lived in both countries and I have high studies in linguistics of those languages. Also I am fluently in English and Modern Greek and I got the proficiency after years of studies and after I lived in the UK and Greece for at least one year. :) Now am I on my way of learning Arabic.
I think that is better to learn well one by one ;) to focus in just one language and then as you say " keeping practice"
Thank you for explaining these principles so eloquently and comprehensively. I have been attempting the same for years, but often hit a brick wall in people's ability to comprehend the difference between fluency and, as you say, "word salad".
Well done. 🎩
Dude you were in my recommended and you are inspiring me to learn more. I can currently speak 4 languages and learning French right now but maintaining my Spanish and French is a little difficult since no one here speaks those (except in games but thats about it and even so only Spanish is used other than English for those games). Espero a aprender mas idiomas hasta posible y usted me lo da inspiracion a hacer. Saludo desde las filipinas
Hey Luca!!!! I'm having my very first italki lesson today!!! Could you make some videos for teenagers learning languages?
Interesting video, Luca. I enjoyed the history lesson as well as the refreshingly positive prognosis for the upcoming generations related to language learning. I agree that modern technology when combined with the capacities of the human mind have the potential to result in people with incredible language abilities. My hope is that, with so much now available, we can continue to encourage one another to channel our efforts into few, but powerful resources and free ourselves from the hamster wheel of resource overwhelm and analysis paralysis. I very much respect the work that you’re doing toward this cause.
Very "True. As soon as I find a resource or method I enjoy someone suggests another one and I start to question my choices. But when I focus I have much better results."
I am working on obtaining fluency in Spanish, German and Romanian. I am also dabbling in Japanese and Latin. I love how you mentioned that the brain has infinite capability. I am sure that once I get to a degree of comfort in the three aforementioned languages, I will find a few others to study. Perhaps Finnish, Polish or Sanskrit. There is such a wonderful world out there to explore and learning languages is a magnificent way to do it. Gracias, Danke, Mulțumesc, Gratias tibi, Arigatou
raramente ho avuto modo di sentire qualcuno spiegare le sfumature e le complicatezze di questo argomento con un tale livello di chiarezza e concisione :) ottimo video, Luca
Grazie mi fa piacere sapere che il contenuto ti sia piaciuto =)
I just like the way you think about language learning ♥️♥️
i tuoi video non sono mai banali, sei una grande ispirazione, grazie Luca
Grazie caro Flavio =)
This video poses an intriguing point. I am always impressed with watching polyglots and hyperpolyglots doing monologues or being interviewed in their target languages. Fluency is not defined the same depending on who you speak to, but Luca Lampariello does an excellent job explaining this on his website. But I still believe that every mind is unlike the other; it really depends on us ourselves to know how many languages we can speak individually. Motivation, practice and comprehension in another language is daunting, much so if one knows more than one. Maintaining languages can be mentally exhausting at times, but rewarding.
Luca, thanks for sharing your knowledge. I am portuguese speaker (from Brazil). Every day a study english and spanish. Seldom I study japanese. If someday I can understand well between 4 or 6 languages. I will be happy.
Thanks for your videos, I always watch you because I can understand your english very well and you inspire me to learn more about languages.
There's the concept I think Richard Simcott talks about where you have "anchor languages" in a language family, for instance, if you've studied four or more romance languages, you can pick maybe Portuguese and French to be sort of your main focuses within that family. You additionally get well acquainted with the differences and similarities between them all, and ultimately they are all more anchored in your mind -- and while you focus on maintaining your favorites, the others can be "reactivated" with some refreshing and you can get rid of that language attrition right away.
So maybe if you approached multiple language groups with this plan in mind, you could perhaps maintain a sort of "cross-fluidity" across similar languages! Of course, you first have to get over the hump of confusing languages, but I figure that's all the more motivation to learn your languages to a high level before moving on to another.
I was also wondering this when he mentioned interference between languages. Maybe there is a way to turn this into an advantage, where practicing one language helps maintain another. Also from an understanding perspective you could develop a passive vocab as the union of all languages from a given family, while being careful about false friends.
I’m fluent in 3 since I was young as in the place I live you have to learn both English and Malay (there are like 2 type) plus Tamil from my family (my Father was a linguist and can speak about 5/6 languages fluently). I learned Mandarin for 4 years or so but it didn’t really do anything except to add little vocabulary for me (I didn’t really have passion at that time). Right now I’m trying to learn Korean, Hindi and Mandarin again. Korean is the only language that I am learning from scratch as I also know a little Hindi and Urdu from watching Bollywood movies, tv shows and such. My goal is just to learn languages to communicate better with people and is so interesting for me. I am already a multilingual but hopefully a polyglot by 2022. Loved the video!!!
Great video Luca
Thank you for this video. It's really important to bear in mind that there are only 24 hours in a day so we have to choose what to spend them on. I've got my nickname since my youth because then I wanted to broaden my knowledge of language acquisition as I was going to become a translator (which I did). But now I'm more fond of psycholinguistics and teaching methodologies because there are so many people who I can help rather than "feed my vanity" learning more languages myself. So the question I always ask myself is not "how to become a polyglot?" and not "how many languages can one speak?" but "what do I need it for?" and "how can I help other people doing what I love?"
Thanks for the wonderful comment! =) The aim of pursuing multilingualism is (or should be) to enrich one's life, it is not a set skills to impress other people or yourself. Every time I start learning a language I fantasize about how I am going to use it, in which situations and with whom. Languages change one individual's life. Big time =)
Mi è piaciuto molto il video, Luca, moltes graciès! I often ask myself the same question, and never know what to reply when people ask me how many languages I speak. In any case, I certainly agree that really speaking a language can be claimed if one is able to confidently and fluidly interact with other speakers of that language. Ya había visto alguno de tus vídeos pero es la primera vez que dejo un comentario, y nada, no sé si los lees pero por si acaso tenía una duda que a lo mejor podrías aclarar. ¿Te has planteado hacer vídeos de este tipo en un idioma que no sea el inglés? Entiendo que es un idioma que te da un público enorme, pero a la vez me interesaría verte reflexionar sobre asuntos lingüísticos por ejemplo en tu dialecto natal de Italia. Por mi parte, soy británico pero he abierto un canal de CZcams con el fin de difundir contenido sobre el aprendizaje de idiomas en euskera, el idioma del País Vasco. Genero honetan zu eredu handia zara, zalantzarik gabe. Ea noizbait zu ezagutzeko aukera dudan, plazer handia bailitzake. Eutsi goiari!
I was reading about Schopenhauer and James Joyce recently and their language speaking abilities, it seemed more common in the education system to know at least one or two languages like Latin and French. They knew at least 4/5 languages. They were obviously very smart dudes but it seemed like it was more common in that 19th/early 20th century to know different languages. And this was in the era where the only resource was books! How can we improve the education system (especially in anglophone countries) where language learning doesn't seem like a boring or impossible task?Thanks Luca, you're my constant inspiration in language learning! Always amazed by how humble you are too.
James Joyce has written mind-blowingly (albeit a bit hard to digest!) pieces of literature
Highly doubtful. Almost everbody nowadays speaks at least two languages, their native language plus English, but often more than those. I highly doubt that 100+ years ago any old pleb would have spoken 2+ languages.
@@Wandering.HomebodyDepends where that pleb was living. There has always been(and still are!) some regions where you absolutely HAD do speak 2 languages, especially with how quickly borders moved, how quickly empires rose, and how quickly they fell. That being said, I'd still wager a guess that there are many more multilingual people these days than in any other point in history.
@@speedyx3493 agreed
Luca, you look good bro! Stay healthy!
Trying my best =)
Such a wise man, admirable.
I love your videos, help me a lot!
Thanks for the lovely words Alter!
You have the ability to catch people’s attention when you speak.
Excelente video!
Gracias!
Great video Luca ! ...as always, very informative and engaging . Adesso ,com posso comprare quell maglieta per favore . ?
The first polyglot I ever read about was the archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann and to this day he remains a great inspiration.
I want to learn spanish.. thanks for the great videos on this topic!!
What a nice video about polyglottery! Thanks Luca for this amazing content. What are your plans now? I think I heard you speak about learning Czech as well in one of your videos? :)
Thanks for the kind words Erik! I'd like to learn Serbian first, but for the moment, I am still perfecting Polish. If things don't get crazy in September, I might go back to learning Romanian and start Turkish. Let's see how things pan out =)
Great video. You have a cool way to talk about various topics. That's why I like your channel. But wait, you mentioned something really interesting. You said that in the future with technology advancing daily, more people will speak more languages. Don't you think that a scenario where people will start relying less and less on learning will be more likely? It feels to me that we relly much more on technology than our ancestors, to predict the weather when we go for a walk, to check what time of the day it is, to communicate, to find each other, to find a place on g maps etc, and a lot of times to translate to our own laguage.
I have a feeling that language learning is becoming more of a hobby than a necesity for people. Imagine what translating technologies will be able to do in the far future. Or even take under conciderationhowmany languages will be left in the future.
Respect!
You are Real.
Always great content, Luca! I'm curious as to whether you're currently studying a new language ;)
Regards from Brazil
Still learning Greek, Hungarian and Danish on a (semi) daily basis =)
Luca, I think your English is beautiful in sound and rich in words.
Luca you are a legend i too am a hyperpoliglot and i know we're all legit i just hate the bullying of many of us
Hi Luca. Have you ever thought about making a podcast? You're multicultural and you got very interesting ideas and experience to be shared. There's no way it wouldn't be great success!! Peace!
Yes, I have been toying with making podcasts for quite some time. I will most probably start making podcasts in 2021 cause now I have a lot of projects to deal with. Thanks for the comment and question =)
We also need to define language, because if you speak many different dialects of one language you are speaking one language, but if those dialects are different enough to be considered languages, then you are speaking however many languages it is. So, if you claim that they are all languages, the number is going to be larger than if someone says the are just different dialects.
¡Qué gran video!
Gracias Koldo! =)
Hi Luca! One more important question for a Polyglot.
What languages count as an extra language? Does speaking Czech and Slovak (or) Russian and Ukrainian (or) Hindi and Urdu (or) Malay and Indonesian etc count as 2 or 1.25?
The language count of Polyglots who speak languages from various language families should definitely be "heavier", right?
In case of Ukrainian and Russian both of them count. Both languages many words that are completely different.
This video is so powerful
I once made a whole spanish course within a month. More than 1000 vocabularies. 2 months later I barely knew half of it, and the process of forgetting was really fast. Nevertheless, in our schools, children are learning up to 3-4 foreign languages up to fluency in reading (Latin) or speaking. That's already great.
10:46 The Merkel-Raute(angela merkel's hand gesture) 😂😂 Great video Luca, very interesting!!
How many tongues must a smart man speak
Before you can call him wise?
The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind.
Kudos ❣️❣️❣️
Being from Chile, I feel so proud that you have named us I have followed you from 2015, and you have been a big inspiration. That video about the false hyperpoliglot is super funny anyone intersted can find it here in youtube, and it has a second part. And answering the question of the video, o think everyone can speak several languages, but not everyone has the perserverence to reach it. And of course should be a limit I think not everyone would reach 14 xD
Donde puedo encontrarlo el video?
El enlace está en la caja de descripción
@@LucaLampariello Muchas gracias amigo. Le siento mal pero eso pasara si usted dice al mundo que puede hablar en mas idiomas que usted poder en actualidad. Penso que puede hablar con 8-10 idiomas al maximo pero solo usara 1-3 idiomas cada dia. Si un persona digarame que el o ella puede hablar con por ejemplo 58 idiomas, no tomarelo como verdad
amazing!
Hi, I am hesitating if I should start on learning a third/fourth language from scratch, and I wish to hear about your advice.
I was born and raised in China with Mandarin as my native language. My fluency in English is near-native (or at least that is my perception), thanks to an early start in my English learning, as well as some eight years of living in LA and Hong Kong. I am also quite fluent in Cantonese (although to a lesser extent compared to my English).
I am really into linguistics and am aware of some of the interesting features of other major European languages such as French, German and Spanish, and I am wondering if I should start learning one of them from scratch. If I ever start learning another language, I consider it meaningful only if my fluency can eventually be adequate for having an in-depth conversation about certain topics and establishing a closer relationship with other speakers. Merely being conversational does not seem to be appealing, as simple functional conversations can all be easily done through translation apps nowadays.
Now I know that is apparently a huge commitment, and my main concern is how far I can go in learning a new language, given my limited time and energy. I currently live in China, so my English proficiency is something that requires time and energy to maintain. I do take pride in my English capacity very seriously, and apart from my job (for which English is an essential skill), I do spend a considerable amount of time watching videos, reading books, and even talking to myself in English on a daily basis, just so I can create an immersive English-speaking context for myself in this mostly Chinese-speaking environment, and by doing so I am still improving my English by internalizing more advanced idioms and words. I don't typically have much time for my Cantonese, despite my emotional attachment to Hong Kong. But given the close proximity between Cantonese and Mandarin, I am still able to maintain a pretty decent proficiency in Cantonese over the years. It is still my absolute priority to maintain and incrementally perfect my English, and I do not want the new language to would encroach on my time that could have been spent on that. I wonder how much time and effort it would take to reach such a desired level of fluency in a new language that I almost have no prior knowledge of, and maintain that level afterwards. Given how hard I work to maintain my English while media contents in English are still relatively accessible, while French/German/Spanish speaking contexts in my city are quite limited, I'm just not very confident that my endeavor would eventually pay off.
Would love to hear your thoughts on that! 谢谢！
You're so articulate omg
I am always impressed with skills of Tim Doner. To be honest, I think to become a Polyglot nowadays demand sacrifaces, huge amount of time, work, headaches... but it's nothing so special, as it used to be. I mean huge respect to all people who can speak at least 2 foreign languages. But to be Hyperpolyglot its became this "something"/a target/ goal today for many polyglots. I love Your every video, as always priceless content Luca :)
Dziękuję Ci bardzo Luca 😊 Jesteś moim guru, masz wspaniałą osobowość i niesamowite umiejętności. Ciesze sie, ze mozemy sie od Ciebie uczyc 😄
And for Tim - New York became a place to learn all that languages and to interact with all of the native speakers without travelling 😁 Internet today is also limited way to interact with all of You guys 😊
Luca, have you met Tim Keely?
When you made this video, I immediately thought of Vladimir Skultety, Richard Simcott, and Tim Keely.
I believe Tim lives in Japan, but was a nomad for many years and has interacted with around 40 languages.
Yes, I met him 2 or 3 times. Lovely guy with a fantastic multilingual story! =)
"Io so di non sapere" (cit. Socrate)
Grande Luca e... a prestissimo ;D
Stefanone sei un grande =) Ci vediamo su CZcams..fra una settimana ;-)
So, Luca, my dear friend, the resolve is to increase and extend life esteem of human animal or being! And, this is exactly what we are working on right now1 We are going to achieve that goal in the recent Future that is standing just ahead of us1 Ti saluto, sei grande! Ci vediamo alla prossima conferenya dei poliglotti a qualsiasi posto su questo pianeta! A presto!
Me encanta ! Yo apenas hablo Español e Inglés, y desgraciadamente este deseo de aprender Idiomas no me ha llamado la atención hasta ahora que tengo 58 años! Y me he entusiasmado con el Japonés! Me conformo con 5 idiomas , pero sí hablarlo fluidamente! Y sí es cierto, aunque no seamos nativos tenemos la fortuna de hablar, leer y escribir mejor que nativos!
I’m going to college in my mid 20s. I’m hoping to learn a few different languages with English being my native language. I’m planning on learning French first (because it is the top spoken language in Europe.) from there I figure I could branch out and maybe pick up a few others.
Hi Luca
Have you read all the books behind you? Incredible video 👍
At least half of them or more =)
Does anyone else who enjoys learning languages have the same problem as me? Friends and relatives really love boasting about me and tell people I speak some crazy number of languages fluently and then I'm left red faced having to be more realistic and then they think I'm just being overly modest. Incidentally, I never tell people how many languages I 'speak'. I have learned 13 at various times but would not claim to speak most of them as I've never had a chance to use or practise them so I doubt my ability to have a basic conversation in them. Which brings me to my final point, as I've got older I've stopped learning languages just for the sake of it and now just concentrate on the ones I know I will use because I genuinely have an interest in the countries where they are spoken.
Powel Geniva from vancouver canada spoke 48 languages in his prime. He used very basic tools by the way. Like flash cards. And always recorded his study sessions.
thank you
The only secret about polyglots is their interest for foreign cultures and languages.
Well there actually is another, which is standing right behind Luca... a lot of reading and listening and practicing...
Any noob can learn a language, so any noob can learn many.
It is not like other disciplines which might be too arduous for some or most folks.
The secret is that while most of us were wasting their time clubbing , chatting, surfing the net ,watching tv and in countless other meaningless activities these guys like learning new languages and cultures
I have so frustrating experience. Not knowing where to begin or hitting a plateau can feel demoralizing and make it hard to hit the books and study like you know you should…Having friends from other cultures makes me more creative. In fresh ways about space and how people create their own world and environment. It is best way to connect between creative thinking and cross-cultural relationships!
In my opinion you can start judging if you're really fluent at a language by watching if you can read a book on that language without much trouble.
I don't know how common is that, but I mostly learn languages only to be able to read on that language. I did it with English and, look, I was able to write this without using translator.
I Thank you
Ciao! Quando si imparano nuove lingue, non c'è il rischio di dimenticare quelle già apprese? Consigli un modo per non abbassare il livello delle lingue apprese in precedenza? Tu come fai a mantenere tutte le lingue apprese "vive"?
Grazie
Ziad Fazah hahaha come on Luca!!!
One thing that is never mentioned is that just as is the case with any other skill set some people are vastly more capable of learning languages than others. That no one ever mentions this is perplexing.
But is that true? I am not so sure about that
@@LucaLampariello Well, are some people faster than others? Answer that and you answer the other question.
@@thinking-ape6483 Effectively learning a language (and that goes for any other skill) is mostly a combination of the following: time on task, motivation, attitude, simple and deliberate practice, and life circumstances. In his very-well researched book about the science of acquiring skills, Anders Ericsson brilliantly and thoroughly explains why a lot of people tend to give "talent" a disproportionally important role: www.amazon.it/Peak-Secrets-Science-Expertise-English-ebook/dp/B011H56MKS. I highly recommend you read the book
You know what? I think it'd would be great if you had an amazon page in which you upload all the books in your shelf.
I would rather put my energy into polishing my skills in 4 or 5 languages that I really either need or really love that just dabble in 20. I'm almost b1 in Spanish right now, and just started Hungarian a few days ago. Haven't decided which other ones I might want. Probably, since I want to move to Europe, French, Dutch, possibly German. I have some interest in Arabic and Russian, but I'm not sure how useful those would be in Europe.
I prefer to be proficient with one hard language first before even diving into another one. I was born and grew up in the Philippines, so language learning has always been a part of my life.
It’s crazy how a lot of people (particularly newbies) overestimate themselves with Japanese. I’m in the stage right now where I’m pessimistically aware that I have soooo much to learn, but practicing is always fun. I have a conversation class every Wednesday and a private lesson every Thursday. I even host my own practice days with others.
If I’m ever satisfied with my Japanese learning and can maintain it, I want to learn Korean next.
Who cares though, how other people assess their language skills, right? Maybe they have different standards from yours, whatever. Unless you want to employ them for their language skills, this line of thinking just seems futile, and toxic, for yourself. And if it's about finding the right candidate for a position, you can always ask to see certificates, or have other people who themselves are fluent in the language(s) that is required for the position drop in at the interview, who will then casually test the applicant on their language skills.
Japanese and Korean aren’t a pretty language as they have mostly non-pretty words with repetition of the same syllable and aren’t fun to look at or hear - I highly recommend learning Irish and Scottish Gaelic instead, they are the hardest pretty languages, being category 3 languages, so they are quite hard, but still not impossible, and most words are super pretty with gorgeous word endings like eith / aith etc, which are so refined and modern!
Another thing is, technically, one can learn multiple languages, and if one truly learns the words and develops an automatic mode in the language, there is no need to ‘maintain’ it, once a word becomes part of the permanent memory and automatic memory, that word cannot be forgotten! I also highly recommend learning Dutch / Old Norse / Norwegian / Icelandic / Danish / Welsh / Breton / Cornish / Gallo / Slovene / Galician / Hungarian / Portuguese etc, these languages are all so gorgeous! However, words such as lif and astral terms / names like Astrid etc and numbers (and all other big terms / purity terms etc like flower / nature related terms and compłiments and other big terms or names and special names etc) only reflect me and cannot be in names or yt names, and all unsuitable names etc must be changed, and also words such as fan etc!
Old Norse is one of the prettiest languages I’ve ever seen, it has real gorgeous words like erfiði / yfir / haf / vindr / dyn / skegg / dróttinn / veit / drengr / fjall / hǫnd / fisksins / lengr / hvassir / rauðr / hvarr / grænn / hvat / líkligr / hǫss / afi / frændi / heitir / veð / hráka / þó / kvern / mælti / hét / setja / hinn / kveða / sinn / leið / brott / knerri / við / dýr / með / heyra / eða etc, and the word endings (like nir and inn and sins etc) and the letter combinations are so pretty, just like the word endings and letter combinations in English and Dutch and Norwegian - I can’t stop learning new pretty words in Old Norse and Icelandic (and the other pretty languages) and they are really áddìctive to look at and read and hear in lyrics etc, I’ve been listening to Skáld songs in Old Norse and Icelandic since I found the first song in Old Norse (Troll Kalla Mik) and I’ve memorized most of those lyrics!
Dutch words are just too pretty not to know, and 83 of the prettiest words in Dutch are - ver, vlinder, verloren, feest, adem, vaste, veel, verdween, heel, het, heen, voorbij, vandaan, verven, domein, verwaald, drijfzand, lief, leegte, liefde, heerst, einde, zonder, weet, avond, vult, gekomen, centrum, moment, pad, loop, overheerst, vallen, twijfel, vinden, kelde, wald, ter, geweest, vrees, grenzen, verleg, rein, van, stellen, wilde, steeds, verstreken, evenbeeld, bleef, steile, vrede, stem, wens, net, tijd, stille, verwenst, zalig, ochtend, zilverreiger, weer, overwint, heerlijk, zin, hart, beweert, vanaf, kwijt, wolken, mes, verliezen, dwaling, verlaten, rede, trek, tuinhek, brand, verdien, blikje, vertellen, verder, vertrek...
When one ‘forgets’ a language, do you believe that knowledge to still be there? I’ve heard some people say that after not using a language for a while, they are rusty at first but can quickly bring their level back up in said language if necessary. Interested in your comment on this. Great video as always!
I studied Spanish in college and recently started studying it again and most of my knowledge returned very quickly.
I think it's still always in the long term memory, the just need to get back into the mood of the language yk. Get the vibes back
I learnt French and German to a good level as a child then did not use either at all for perhaps 25 years. I have just started 'learning' them again this year and they are coming back very quickly, not really learning but reminding. I also learnt Italian in my later teens and have tried to pick that back up now as well but finding it much harder going, I think a lot of that is genuinely gone.
That's right, we are limited in time. We have work, duties, family and so on. I speak Ukrainian, Russian, Polish, German, English. Now i am learning French. But i would like to learn Romanian, Spanish, Greek and Arabic. May be Czech and Swedish.