This Man Speaks 32 Different Languages
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- čas přidán 23. 03. 2017
- Ioannis Ikonomou works for the European Commission as a translator. It's a prestigious position, and yet it still sells him short. You see, Ioannis speaks 32 living languages. He belongs to a very small and special group of people called hyperpolyglots who have the extraordinary ability to attain fluency in many different tongues. According to Ioannis, there's no special trick or easy way to become a hyperpolyglot, but the best way to start is to boldly put yourself out there and SPEAK.
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when you speak british, american, australian and canadian
Add new Zealand
It took me 30 seconds to realize that you can only speak one language.
And south african
@@Ripouliei .............u mean afrikaans/dutch/zulu/xhosa/khoisan/etc
@@williamchen8698 yes chill out man im not south afrikan so i dont know all that shit
"Bonjour."
"Your French is very good!"
"Gracias."
Lol
The return of Mr. Bean.....
@@melissa9905 lol true
😂
Mr Bean reference? 🤣🤣🤣 love it
The Duolingo bird is satisfied. His family will be spared.
Lmao
Funny😂😂😂
Greek because he is from Greek?
HE DOESNT KNOW HAWAIIAN SO HE SHALL BE PUNISHED
PLSS-
Him: "when I was 20 I had already learned 15 languages."
Me, 18yo: *cries in native language and broken English*
Me, also 18yo: *Cries in English, the only language I can speak*
I just turned 21, and am currently learning my third language.
@@jumpiestudios5265 Cool! I'm 21 too, what is your third language? Mine's German
@@Matthew-fj6eu My first language is German, my second is English, I'm currently learning French. I'm keeping it European so far. It's easier to learn languages that are related.
me: Cries in English and broken Native Language
*DUOLINGO BIRD WANTS TO KNOW YOUR LOCATION*
hahahahaha nice one
He is the duolingo bird
legends say that he is the only one to escape the duolingo owl
*its an owl*
I started using Duolingo for Russian (and a bit of Korean) a few days ago. I'm scared to miss a day so thankfully i did my lessons today.
I said "Si" at a taco bell once
Oĺe!
Good for you!
Lol
You said if?
It’s pronounced _Sí_
I’m going to have to ask you to leave.
**escorts you out of Taco Bell**
I was lucky enough to meet him in person when we visited Brussels with my university department, in October of 2019. A wonderful person, I had a brief discussion with him about dead languages (Latin, Anglo-Saxon etc.)
Did you talk to him in latin/old english
Why should i believe someone named pepe frog(dead meme).
Nice 😎
@@branestron9521 Because why would someone make that up?
@@goldflower6892 exactly but the point is why not? people make the most senseless lies
What I learned:
He has a husband and is gay.
Must be such an important thing for Arab people
I don't give a fuck about his orientations. He is so smart. you must have -IQ to laugh about this
So what? You lame
And I'm proud of him as a member of the LGBTQ community I appreciate this
@@Roody_Patootie I'm proud of him since he's from my country.
Plot twist: He can't actually speak 32 languages and just memorized a few phrases for the video
Lmao
Alot of the polyglot videos have people know like the most basic words in a language
@Adam THERIN yes but hes a translator
Well his dutch was terrible to be honest
Nope he is the translator of the EU sooo nope 😂 also a few months ago many greek channels were talking about him
*he is the assassin duolingo bird sends when you miss your lesson*
“Oh shit i missed my lessons!..” w-wwait, _Why do I hear Boss music??_
Lol
Diarrhea **surprised pickachu**
Id miss a million days of duo just to meet this legend
Wtf is that username tho
The real question is...
When he thinks, what language does the voice in his head speak in?
He's glad he has no schizophrenia.
Do you see that angry German guy arguing with that Frenchman 😂
Mean while the shrink doesn't understand a word of Mandarin he is saying 😝
@@Sassenhaim .
Usually you think in the dominant language at that moment
@Jonathan Williams Stfu
I have learnt English and if I want to I can think in English! But sometimes if I want to speak Dutch again it is hard to think in Dutch🇳🇱😂
Man: *Speaks 32 languages*
Google translate: alright, our job is yours now
Moochi UvU
Also google translate:
the bread is hot-> *my breakfast red spot*
Well Google translator is the WORST translator out there so everyone could take its job lmao
@@dianas7429 lol
Google translate is shit
@@moisttowlette1247 like you!
google translator in human form.
Brayan Guillen but better
But accurate.
But it's getting better over the time. A little scary.
not even his final form...
Tommy De Filippo Lol so true
gotta admit im a little jealous lol
his dutch was really bad though :/ sad to hear that
Jade Nanarjain I was just about to comment that. I didn't understand a word lol
His pronunciation was horrible, but if you pay close attention what he says is actually gramatically correct.
sarah nasr iz
I'm over here struggling to learn one language at school
He reminds the duolingo owl to take his lessons
Top notch banter 👌
"So, How many languages you can speak
"Yes"
Imagine him and his husband fighting over something, and he was there slurring 32 languages all mixed up, and his husband would be like, WTF!?
SUPER RAD husband??
SUPER RAD lol this comment has 32 likes
Zaur Hasanov he's gay
Kryptix Gamer now 64
No, he's not. His husband is.
Funny how everyone starts to say how one of his languages is kind of bad. His "..." was pretty bad, he didn't pronounce "..." properly.
Like stfu, he speaks 32 languages, does he have to be 100% fluent in every one of them? Of the four languages I know, I understood everything he said, so I'd say that's already a good start. As long as people understand you, you speak the language. No need to be a poet to speak a language.
xd lasermonkey its normal that you dont speak it fluently but his dutch sounds like fucking arabic to me couldnt understand it not good，not great not fantastic really bad wasnt even dutch
Yeah, but maybe at least understandable to natives? If natives are finding it hard to understand his Dutch and Mandarin, then can he really speak them?
And I'll bet YOU do TO!
USMCVET78 _ hey marine don't you have some crayons to eat?
Maybe criticism didn't take anything away from him knowing 32 languages.
“yes sir he’s right there, the guy who ate the duolingo bird”
Imagine spending your entire life trying to master one language while this dude can speak 32
Quality over quantity, my boy.
he didn't even hesitate when saying Mandarin omg
Except for the fact that it really sounds robotic and weird. I had to slow down to understand what he's saying.
@@aurora7554 thats why he said it...
It’s true tho haha
I kinda expected it.
@@aurora7554 oh em gee. Yes. It doesnt sound natural
I mean, he still can't speak Minecraft enchantments languange so...
Got 'em!
Checkmate!
Fun fact: the official name of the alphabet is "The Standard Galactic Alphabet".
And also, it's not a language, it's an alphabet.
@@deth9794 I see, thank you professor
or can he?
If you can’t read it you are useless
"If you speak to a person in a language they understand, it goes to their brain. If you speak to a person in their own language, it goes to their heart."
Speaks polish with his husband is what surprised me the most.
Because it's still a bit daring in Poland to be openly gay,
Because of religious beliefs.😔
I support free people, who are who they choose to be👍🏻❤️
Also if I'm not mistaken in Greece they're pretty traditional and there's certain degree of homofobia in parts of the population. So really surprising having a Polish and Greek gay couple. Well, good for them.
He did not CHOOSE who he wanted to be. He is just who he really is.
Does that mean he can watch anime without subs?! Damn I'm jealous
anime is in japanese...
Ovillo Ronald idc I wait for subs I like to read
He said 32 language , japanese could be one of them
I was thinking about that too
Anime is in Japanese not mandarin, china produces something like...Xi Yang Yang, search that up on google, it's a goat
The reason it sounds unlike the languages he's speaking is he has an extremely thick accent
How ironic, lmao. The dude that speaks 32 languages has a fucking accent xd
Do you speak 30 languages? Doubt it.
@@Septiccatgaming I didn't say that, I was just pointing it out cus a lot of the comments say stuff like "It didn't sound like so & so language"
@@willwalker24601
Don't mind such people. They get offended by every little inconvenience and what not.
People like that aren't worth your time
@@jhin6181 no such thing as not having an accent lmao??
I am Dutch and I can't understand anything of what that guy is saying in "Dutch"
😂
Ik leef mijn leven in meerdere spraken, meerdere talen, niet maar een. Zoiets
Hahahaha same, I thought wtf is this.. Een dialect uit de achterhoek?
@@randysantana6147 must be his accent then
Hahaha yes i had that too, I couldn’t understand any words he prenounced
You have inspired me to learn more languages. Thank you sir!
He's gay, travels the world, works with the UN, and knows 32 languages, my new life goal has been set
with the EU;)
you can eff off then
The gay part is optional
lance lim 300th like XD
lance lim don’t be gay you would suck and be a stupid little Moron
The problem with learning so many languages is that you miss some small nuances and pronunciations that makes you noticeably different from the actual native speakers.
Still impressive as fuck, though
I'm from Spain, and when I heard him speak... dude he speaks it perfectly, just amazing.
Juan Aguilera his Spanish was good. his Dutch on the other hand did not sound like Dutch at all... guessing some accents are easier then others
Yes, true, his french was not that good on the authentic accent side (me being a native speaker), but you know.... its 32 languages
Yeah I'm french too and it just sounds a bit off in the way he pronounces stuff
Ayla Soares from what i've noticed greek and spainard spanish have pretty much the same sounds and have very similar accents, so it must be easier for him.
Imagine if everyone in the world spoke multiple languages.
well then Americans like me would have a hard time
In India, multilingualism is very common...
Or if everyone learned esperanto
@@aaaaaaa6954 something interesting about Esperanto is that in Chinese is 世界语
世界＝world
语＝ language
So it means "The language of the world"
@@Manzar534 i know 5, is it considered multilingual?
This is the man my dad wants me to be for no reason
This is what I want you to be for no reason. I believe you can do It! Also, I'm not your dad sorry kid.
don't be the one somebody wants you to be. be the one who you want to be
you can even be a serial murderer if thats what you like doing
This guy is exactly who I wanna be. A gay hyperpolyglot who speaks languages for a living.
Me too though
Nobody asked
God me too
@@mert.e where does one acquire such a wonderful boyfriend?
@@maxblanchard5258 you tell me
I noticed he spoke very slowly in Chinese, as I'm sure he wanted to get the tones correct. The hard part about Mandarin is not the learning, but speaking to peoples from all over China who speak mandarin with different accents and intonations.
Da Long Finally, someone said this! I only speak English, but I kinda figured that it was more to these languages that meets the eye!
对呀
Very true.
In my country also, all of our states have different languages and cultures. Even within states there are different accents and dialects.
Da Long billions of people with accents and intonations
Awesome! China is a big country so I would imagine the differences of dialects throughout your country.
I always feel so excited in these lot language videos, and he even mentioned hungarian language. But I always, always, every single time have to dissapoint in that because its never on the "popular country" list sadly. Which I can understand but bruh..
Nice video! And here am I struggling with single english language to learn xd
Ioannis really makes me feel inspired to speak more Languages. Sure my family's language is a bit rusty sometimes but I'm still learning. Plus, I'm willing to speak others like my biggest goal for example, Japanese. And of course, a few European Languages as well.
jesus christ dis dude speaks 32 languages while im here still trying to learn english (which is my first language)
lmao
I know 3 languages
I know three languages, four if I had not given up learning Mandarin. Though, I am now attempting a fourth language, Japanese.
@@CaptainNoch i know 4 languages and it gets harder to learn new ones the more languages you already know
He speaks 31 because his dutch was not.understandable
I can speak 5: English, Canadian, American, Australian and New Zealand.
I'm so talented I know😂😂
Holly Wilkins Canadian's speak English and French. You should know French then
I'm a French-Canadian and I don't speak French.
I'm actually learning both Greek and sign language, and how to write and read Braille.
I'm learning Italian and Russian
French is literally a prerequisite in Canada. Not necessary in like BC but like if you are on Ontario you know whats up.
Holly Wilkins I can speak English Spanish Russian French and that's it
Such a cool video ! This is really impressive!
*top 10 rappers the duolingo bird was too afraid to diss*
Dude can speak 32 languages and most of the comments are more concerned with his sexuality?
He’s clearly a very intelligent man, who cares what his sexual orientations are?
I do
Vagaba Assassina That says more about you, than about him.
That's internet for ya
I didn't see any comment about it.a
In all honesty, I didn't even realise he said husband until I read the comments. I guess my brain just thought, "yeah it's normal, the guy is in a loving marriage"
At what point does he consider a language "learned"?
EndohMiharu probably when he can speak it fluently
EndohMiharu Because as you probably already from posting that comment you can't really completely learn a language
Ayden Bopes only speak? What about the writing and reading skills?
EndohMiharu i think it'll be when he can listening to that language fluently like mother tounge ( and reading-speaking it kinda normally)
+Girl Online Well it depends on the language, my first language is Turkish and it's phonetic so if you can write a word you can pronounce it, or if you hear/pronounce a word you can write it. But most of the languages aren't like this, for example English. In English words can sound the same but can be written as different words. This will make the writing part harder to learn. Hope i knew more than these two languages :l
Keep up the great work
Google Translator: I speak every language in the world.
This Guy: Hold my dictionary!
Kinda sad that Google translate doesn't have Cantonese
More like "I fuck up with every language in the world!"
The difficulty of a foreign language is just a concept relative to our mother languages. For Japanese and Korean speakers, Mandarin is definitely not excessively complicated to learn at all. Being a Chinese speaker myself, I find European languages way harder than Asian ones.
YL lv True.
I mean if someone speaks an indo European language it is easier to learn them. I cannot make heads or tails of east Asian language 😂
Is that a real girl? English is a Germanic language, not Latin.
Een trotse Nederlander Yes it is, but it has so many words derived from latin
Een trotse Nederlander People can argue both. A lot of English words have Latin roots, hence why it's easier for English speakers to learn French, Italian and Portuguese than most
"They call me Mr worldwide"
Reinfield - Calamity 😂😂😂
I’m a hustler baby !!
*madman..?
Wow, if he makes lyrical music, it'd be super interesting
Love his by the way coming out between one language and an another.
PSA: To speak 32 languages fluently and maintain them is nigh impossible. *Maybe* you have learned them all to fluency at some point, but with that number there will likely be some left in the dust long enough that you no longer speak them well or at all. ("Use it or lose it.") Unless, of course, you dedicate your life 100% to maintaining all 32 of your languages. Which would be stupid.
Besides, it seems several of the languages he spoke here weren't quite up to snuff. This guy probably speaks a lesser number of languages (who knows-could be 8 or 12 or 17) and has studied 32.
ALSO: You do *not* need to travel to learn a language. People need to quit spreading that myth.
You dont need to travel, but it is very effective to do that.
@Clementine's Thigh Gap his Chinese was shabby as well, I would say he talked like a guy who studied Chinese for a week at most.
Edit: Even less, and Chinese isn't that hard tbh.
@Clementine's Thigh Gap I am Indian and I speak far better, been living in Wuhan for 5 years now. Yes Wuhan 😁
3rdVoid Men 你还住在武汉吗？I thought they evacuated all the foreigners lmao
@@thatdinocalledvk5273 我现在不在中国。在印度. 有个人没有来。Depended on our choice, if we wanted to or not go back to our country. Had every help from the university to stay in quarantine.
Dang, if he said that Mandarin is the most complicated language to learn, that means he hasn't learned Cantonese.
writofmandamus haha, Cantonese is easier for me, Mandarin really trips me up though, but it probably is because i grew up speaking Cantonese instead of Mandarin
And his accent for Mandarin sucks.
Cantonese is a dialect, not a language :P
Cantonese is a language, not a dialect. Taishanese, Yangpingnese and the like are Cantonese dialects. ":P"
The official language of Hong Kong and Macau is Cantonese.
Okay I researched and there isn't a direct answer on whether Cantonese is a dialect or language. But it is considered a dialect in my country.
1:21
WHAT KIND OF MOUSE IS THAT?!
Evoluent Vertical Mouse 80,00$
You unlock it after learning your 15th language
@@DaviAreias 😄
it's an ergonomic mouse
A mouse that prevents carpal tunnel perhaps? Seen as it is an ergonomic mouse
Hé understands the world better because of his study of so many languages. Bravo, sir. Bravo. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
Yeah speaking the language often helps with memory, so far its English, Hindi and Marathi for me but my girl is Dominican so learning Spanish is the goal now.
uhm i am dutch myself and i didnt understand a word of what he said😂💀 1:14
Inderdaad, het leek meer op Duits haha
Susan - het leek op op geen taal😂
@@M0Kiiii lies
As a native Dutch speaker, I found it perfectly legible, although the grammar was way off.
He said: "Ik leef mijn leven in meerderen spraken, in meerdere talen en niet maar in 1 taal."
@@crasho ja, ik begreep ook wat hij zij maar het klonk zo als vele niet Nederlands talige proberen Vlaams of Nederlands te spreken.
So some people are more curious whether he's gay rather than how he managed to speak all those freakin languages lol people
Maybe being gay gave him super language powers
Jamie Franta ya i was shocked when he said husband lol
Jamie Franta he mentioned that he has a husband so of hes gay and why does that even matter
Well of course hes gay he stated in the video that he has a husband
Jamie Franta yeah he gay. Cuz he has a husband. Not a wife.
I am greatly impressed!!
Is there a list of the languages that he knows?
Him saying "I speak to my husband..." cleared my skin, watered my crops and drew out the happiest sigh.
Hes gay andi noticed that too i was like what dafuq
Why?
Gay people we stan!!!!!! Unite!!!!!!
Yeah for me it like caught me off guard. So I disliked the video after he said that and stopped watching.
@@brikC thats rude
I wish i could learn languages easily too😭 totally agree with him on mandarin being difficult. Im chinese but english is my more dominant language and mandarin is so difficult because the grammar and structure is so different from english. To be honest though, i really could'nt understand what he was saying in mandarin cause his pronunciation is pretty bad. Also if im not wrong, he directly translated what he wanted to say in english in to mandarin and that kinda resulted in a weird sentence. :/
crazyabouthisrae HAHAHA yes he does need to work on his pronounciation and tones more. english is my dominant language too! but i use mandarin to communicate with my mom.
crazyabouthisrae Well its not that hard. You just need to be exposed to it and use it frequently. Like on a daily basis. My mom was from India so I learned her mother tounge without even meaning to because she spoke in it to her siblings and stuff
chinese grammar is not that different from english. yes, there are differences, like classifiers...but overall, its much more similar to english than korean and japanese, which are the completely grammatically different.
His chinese is right.. he said "慢慢意识到了怎么*可*(才)能学习(到)好多外国语言 just replace the star with the bracket and you get the accurate sentence.. Lol
Oh your bilingual(think how you spell this) me too
I'm Greek and this made me feel proud for some reason
How beautiful it must be to dream in all sorts of languages!
I don't think Chinese is the most complicated language. In my opinion, the difficulty of acquiring a language is relative.
Mostly depending on what your mother tongue is....
Talking is fine, writing is when things hit the fan.
It really depends on your current environment, personal variables and cultural background. Let's say you're Chinese, then Japanese and Korean will be relatively easier for me due to the "boxed writing style", speaking isn't really a problem if you're willing and would love to learn the language. But at the same time, languages such as Arabic, Latin and Russian will be fairly difficult.
The same method can be applied to all languages really! The language that is the closest to your language may be the easiest to learn for most people. If you're introduced a language that is completely different from yours in every aspect then it'll be a bit of a problem.
PS. The speaking part is fine if you're willing to learn. But the Chinese writing system definitely kills.
It really depends on what language/s you learned first. If you grew up speaking english and korean you would find most languages easier because korean and english are related to most popular languages
this is exactly correct.
Mandarin, , vietnamese, cantonese and something similar to them (language with tones) are always the hardest to learn for me
Wait so what language does he think in????
Greek, because he's greek (I'm not sure)
Mau Pr not all the time u think in one language, sometimes u think in both. I speak Tagalog and I think taglish in my mind
Well I speak 5 languages and I think different depending on the language I speak. For instance thinking in German while speaking English is not really helpful and leads to vague sentences.
Jeff Lee sometimes when im talking in english, theres a word i forget or dont know, so my mind ends up thinking it in tagalog. its weird. like expressing ideas in another language is always so mch different in different languages
Most polyglots think in whatever language they're speaking at the time. When I'm around English speakers, I think in English; around French speakers, I think in French.
When he started talking dutch he had a very thick accent but it seems like he can talk his way around fine though
I think there's a number of languages a polyglot can learn after which the quality of each will start to deteriorate, considering the extreme amount of time you need to learn and maintain a language knowledge up to an upper intermediate level (where I myself consider that I have learnt the language). And 32 is way past that number. Judging from the comments from natives he is at lower intermediate level at best for some of the languages.
He seems to be much lower than even "intermediate level" in these languages. His Dutch is plain incomprehensible to me, what he said made no sense.
I'm from the Netherlands and I couldn't understand anything of what he just said..
The most difficult language is really a subjective question. In terms of pronunciation, Mandarin might be the hardest, considering not only the exotic phonetic system but also the tones, but grammatically it's actually one of the simples languages I've come across. In terms of grammar, Ancient Greek is probably one of the hardest I've had experience with. And, even though it's a dead language, Ancient Mayan beats Chinese out of the water in terms of script complexity.
Lmao I study Latin and Ancient Greek in high school, I dropped Latin because I thought Ancient Greek was easier.
Upcoming Archeologist?
Mandarin? Try Cantonese, 9 tones, they use traditional Chinese writing and HK uses a lot of slang.
Have you ever heard of Xhosa?
There are many difficult languages.
@@Spacebar You should differentiate. He was speaking Mandarin. I'd say Cantonese is much harder.
@@Spacebar as a non native English speaker and someone who also has a bunch of non native friends it's actually mostly accepted that English is easy apart from pronunciation sometimes
Actually, the Native American language Chippewa is said to be the most difficult language. But it's almost dead.
My relatives are polish its very hard to learn for native English speakers i believe its level 4 meaning it will take a minimum of 1100 hours just to build a conversation but he speaks Mandarin thats impressive. I wonder if he speaks Arabic as well.
And I am here like a potato that only can talk 2 languages
*speak in
Chicken Skateboard Thats already one more than an average person
Fler än mest!
No One No, it’s speak lol
I speak 3 Hindi, Punjabi, and English
The best part is when he said he spoke Polish to his husband.
Dionicio Baca
Agreed
😂
Siema kurwa byku jak tam
So amazing,I love lenguage I hope I can learn a lot of them
I was literally talking with him last night I was at a party in Brussels, then I Googled him and I fell of my chair, such a humble man.
DANG HE TALKED IN SPANISH SO PERFECT👏
His dutch and his french were of intermediate level, not that great. But hey, at least he can use it.
LOL Nancy he talked perfectly. Venga! :)
verdad que si? creo que hasta tenia acento caribeño XDD
Gloria Leyva mi primer idioma es el español y yo si le he notado acento extranjero y extranjerizado en lo único que ha dicho en español que es una frase. es imposible que sepas si su español es perfecto con una simple frase que ha dicho. IMPOSIBLE. Tendría que hablar más tiempo para poder juzgar su español. Solamente ha dicho una puñetera frase. No es nada difícil decir correctamente una frase en otro idioma. Lo difícil es cuando se va más alla de una frase. Hablar etc. Y el no ha hablado en español. Solamente ha dicho una frase. 😒😒😒😒. De todas formas no le resto nada de mérito. Bravo por el. xD. Es muy bueno en lo suyo. Un crack.
@@user-ip8dg5uv5q Lo que digas. Pero que te conste que no hay un solo acento español. Mas de 20 paises lo tienen de idioma oficial y cada uno de ellos lo habla con un acento distintivo. Que si no suene como a tu pais no quiere decir que no lo hable bien :)
A lot of people are saying his pronunciation is poor in many languages, but if you actually listen, his grammar is perfect and he uses natural sounding phrasing.
Nah he didn't even conjugate the verbs in Turkish
Mertiy ok sorry I don't speak Turkish so I couldn't catch that one
His mandarin was very good :)
his dutch was also horrible i couldn't understand what he was saying and I'm a native dutch speaker...
His Mandarin is pretty good, better than mine even
1:19 “ I speak to my husband in polish because he is polish
So he’s gay
Yep, nothing wrong with that though
Bro I study in Singapore and this guy's Chinese is better than some of my classmates no joke
Ioannis Ikonomu: I speak 30 languages
laoshu505000: Hold my beer
Roi Daniel
Ioannis's Mandarin is very hard to understand for me, and I'm a native speaker. Laoshu on the other hand, speaks it almost like a native speaker.
While I love laoshu, it's obvious that for some languages, he learns basic phrases like "I'm learning this language. I like this language. I can speak these other languages" but when he tries to do more he can't. Hope it doesn't sound like hate, just something I noticed. I'm curious if the guy in the video is the same.
Jacqueline Liu to be fair, Mandarin is laoshus second language and he has said before it is his strongest language aside from English
@Boodha Aadamee (In Retrospect)
@@nessie4215 that's just how laoshu starts off, he learns more after that, just those things first so he can start a conversation more easily and get experience listening and speaking
This guy both speaks thirty two languages and is homosexual.
He is great.
Edit:
I'm sorry, I suppose I forgot that everybody on the internet reads way too much into everything.
I didn't mean for my comment to make it seem like heterosexuals aren't talented, or that being homosexual makes you better.
I was just very happy with the fact that he was clear about being gay - especially because the internet is filled to the brim with people who would do anything to cause a scene over that.
I didn't mean to make anybody feel like your sexuality makes you better then anybody else - it doesn't.
My apologies for that - I forgot how truly sensitive people are over the stupidest shit, yet when something that's actually bad or dramatic happens, nobody does shitall.
Cara Elias that's pretty gay
*****
How am I an idiot?
I commented on something I noticed and found interesting.
Cara Elias I watched the video, put down my phone, started drawing, then replayed it in my head and thought "wait what the heck"
I totally missed the fact that he had a husband at first.
I noticed it immediately.
I'm so happy that this channel actually features a homosexual person.
Most news-ish CZcams channels either gloss over the fact or ignore it completely.
ijcn0jir3nvjn3fjcifn I don't think either of us understand what you're getting at here
the actual dutch translation:
i live my life in multiple speaking *mumbling about ‘speaking’* not just one
(he probably confused talen (dutch for languages) with sprachen (german for languages) but i thought it was funny
Ho Chi Minh also learned about the same amount of language at this man. He learned them by listening to
the foreigners on the ship that he worked on. He is a legend to Vietnamese
I'm chinese and I didn't really understand what he said 😂😅
Its because u have no brain, Jk xd I did not understand either ...
Μακης Ο. No. If he is a native Mandarin speaker and he does not understand what Joannis says in Mandarin , it.is not because he has not a brain, it is n
because the Mandarin spoken by Joannes is bad. When a native speaker does not understand what you say in his/her language , that is a bad sign...xD.
მე მარია hehe his accent was realllyyyy strong and hard to understand
@@user-ip8dg5uv5q I can't understand what you're saying cuz of the bad grammar
Its the same with the dutch, barely understandable but still a good try.
Very inspiring. Awesome guy😍
I'm currently trying to learn Japanese.
I only speak Dutch,Thai and English right now and I want to learn more!
Pobody's Nerfect 麦わら帽子 weeb
+Lolrunner really...😑
I'm really proud that he is from Greece because I'm from Greece too
Emilios Ertecoglou me too
I speak most of the languages he spoke thru the video, his performance; excellent.
Why does everyone feel the need to ask if he's gay? If he says he has a husband, that means he's not straight. Besides, it doesn't matter what his sexuality is.
upside down smile, IKR! People need to calm down.
upside down smile straight men don't have husbands, ever.
but hes gay
ZeckDoesStuff what if he's bi?
ZeckDoesStuff wait nvm I just read something about it
He said one sentence in 5 languages. I want to know how many languages he can speak Fluently, not just the basics.
He speaks fluenlty 16 languages.He said that in an interview
bayern joan that’s pretty good
No that's his own estimation of "fluent". The only real determination of fluency is having at least 3 native speakers not tell the difference between you and the other native speakers. If they can't tell then that is true fluency. Or, if you think that's too staunch then call it "native" level speaker and then true fluency is when 3 native speakers don't have to try to understand what you are saying when you say it. Plenty of people here have said his mandarin was bad, his dutch was horrific and who knows what else people would say about his other languages he "speaks".
By his definition of “speaking a language” I speak 6.
Fascinating!
Yeah, don't know about the rest, but his mandarin is pretty terrible. Still impressive i guess
I've heard that Mandarin is easier for English speakers because they can identify certain tones and syllables whereas he is Greek (native language being Greek) and because they have a different writing system, it would be harder for him to learn and pronoucne
It's pretty good in my opinion
Turkish is pretty bad too
It's definitely not the best but I think it's amazing considering how difficult it is.
His Dutch was eh... I’m Dutch and was unable to understand him without the English subtitles.
he is such an inspiration, I'm at 5 languages right now, Romanian, French, English, Spanish, and Italian, and learning 2 others, Japanese and Korean, I really hope one day I will reach his level
This is how youth should be, dedicate yourself on studying
"how did he learn so many languages omg"
*laughs in balkan and european*
His spanish was quite good i didnt like his turkish though it wasnt even mediocre
Si, su español tenía un acento un poco de ruso pero bién pronunciado
@@alventuradelacruz522 si exactamente pero su turco entendí nada
The one who rocks si si yo tampoco lo entendí.
How tf you know both langueges im turkish but his turkish was awful
@@birhancakar8825 ogrendim ahshshshsh ispanyada yasadim bir sure
Greetings from Athens Greece 🇬🇷
Btw im half Greek and half Polish. All i need is 29 more languages!
I'm studying mandarin as my major in university and I do absolutely agree 😂
This person has a power that very few people have
I absolutely LOVED the part where he went from Spanish to Russian!!! I grew up speaking Spanish and English and I studied Russian in college and I also spent a month in Russia a few years ago for a language immersion course. It felt so normal to me when he switched from Spanish to Russian! I didn't skip a beat and for a quick second I didn't even realize that he made the switch only because I understood him perfectly.I studied German at the same time I studied Russian and I just love both of those languages!!! I should make a CZcams video about it.
His dutch was basically complete gibberish. Without the english subtitles I had completely no idea what he was saying. I am dutch btw.
Wow. Congratulations ❤️
I hope he can/will speak Filipino as well. I myself is also a lover of different languages, but nothing beats my mother tongue, Filipino.