I launched my own language learning community on Vibely: app.vibely.io/woutersmultilingualfam/challenges On this page you can find the tier prices and descriptions. Within this community you can join challenges, you can find a language buddy and there is even a polyglot group. I also organize 2 virtual meetings per month! Then there is also a special nerdy tier for the real language enthusiasts, where you get access to my booklets for French, German and Spanish, and I organize 2 live lessons per week.
Really like your videos! Just a tip, instead of asking people to "speak some more" in their language ask them to tell you about their day or something. A lot of people get nervous and don't know what to talk about when they have a camera pointed at them. Lykke til!
I knew he'd get crushed by African languages, the Twi guy is from Ghana, and Ghana alone has 40+ languages. So Wouter is legendary but even in West Africa alone 29 wouldn't be anywhere close to being enough. That being said, I just want to learn Spanish, French, Mandarin and my life will be complete. Salute to this man, he's amazing.
mandarin is super easy! it has the easiest grammar by far of all big languages, the pronunciation is super easy once you get down tones, and sounds never change (unlike for example in english, the A in apple is different from the A in attack). Yeah, the writing system might be a little complicated, but just learning to speak/listen is super super easy. definitely give it a go
Similar to Indonesia, we come from hundreds ethnics with at least dozens local language from the major ethnics alone, 718 registered, if counting all. He may speak Indonesia, the official language and our lingua franca, but i don't think he know the local language like Minangkabau, Sundanese, Bugis, etc...
@@deserttrekkie well im a native speaker so i dont really know, but for me, what has been really helpful in learning japanese is first starting with a subject i know well (in my case it was baseball and a board game called go, similar to chess); i can watch japanese shows/commentary on these and basically understand because i understand the games. From there, i first watched a lot of anime/jdrama with subtitles, and eventually moved on to obscure oneas without subtitles. That REALLY helped with my listening comprehension; a single movie i watched basically made me from being able to understand 5% of japanese tv to 50%. Thinking back, that was how i learned english too; just watching a bunch of cartoons like spongebob or fairly odd parents when i waa little
I love how he is honest enough to show him not knowing on the very first clip and then fairly often sprinkled throughout. Very honest which is admirable. Some people would just not add those moments at all to the video. Very impressive even with those left in. First time seeing your content but your humble and truthful nature got a subscribe from me.
No bro, he is not, his Portuguese(I’m italo-Brazilian) is awful, same as Italian… and he say that he speaks it… the phrases that he uses are not in the context of the conversation and he looks like someone who are not even B level I’m those languages, it means that he could not sustain a decent conversation for a long time, he looks like someone who got some phrases in duo lingo to look smart
@@plasmagamer100 i don't know about other lenguages but i'm Chilean and his Spanish it's not very good either, i mean, he clearly can have a casual talk with someone but on a scale of 1 to 10 it's like a 3 or 4. Anyways it's impressive can take a casual conversation on 29 lenguages...
@@plasmagamer100 well it’s still impressive speaking 29 languages even if it’s not perfect I’d like to see you try though tho… lmk how’s that turns out for you.
@@PacifyKy I speak 2 languages natively(because I’m half Italian,half Brazilian), and in English I can talk normally, I’m not gonna say that I’m 100% fluent because I don’t know if my English is good enough to be compared to a native, but I can literally express myself and have really good conversations… but in these 2 languages that I speak natively (Italian and Portuguese) I can tell you, he looks like someone who just got few phrases on google translate to make the video, because sometimes the phrases that he use don’t even fit in the conversation, like he say something and when the person start to answer he changes the topic to something like “oh I speak, I like it, it’s cool it’s cool”, idk thats how it looked like for me at least…
For 13yrs old I think this little girl did an amazing job. The title did not include the word ’fluent’ & I’m sure people would have no problems understanding her if she visited their country and spoke their native tongue.
Amazing observation! That's pretty much natural since the brain adjusts itself to make it easier for the speaker to use the language. Kinda like a "warm up", the brain needs to do a "Warm up".
@@xxcrazyxxnonesisto6138 Yeah he had a thick accent too in Spanish, which I would think he had in other languages but I was able to understand just fine.
6:38 shoutout to Kenya, she's speaking Kikuyu, here's the translation "Hey guys I'm Ika, I had won [a burger] earlier for speaking Swahili, I'm a french teacher in this city"
@@Mrlimsuliong yes, part time. I am legally qualified to translate between Latvian and English. Latvian is my native language and i also speak the Latgalian dialect (some people considerl it a separate language though). I am fluent in Russian because i was raised bilingual. I have studied German and Swedish, but since it was a long time ago i am bit rusty in them. I have quite a decent conversational level in Italian and Lithuanian (self-taught) and learned some basic Spanish before visiting the country in 2018. I would love to learn French next. I was also dabbling in some Japanese for a while but man it is complicated, so nothing more than several basic sentences for me 😃 Maybe i should pick it up in 2022 again
Keep going Wouter, the are such an encouragement for language learners. Everyone, please encourage Wouter! This is a great RU-vidr, who deserves much appreciation. Well done! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🙏🏾🇬🇧🇳🇱
As a Pole I was scared Wouter's power would be enough to break my language. Thankfully I'm somewhat safe, but that bit of Polish you spoke wasn't half bad. You're probably gonna get it one day!
How can this guy speak so many languages? I've been living in Philippines my whole life but this guy can speak Tagalog wayyy better than me and he can also speak Hiligaynon which is my mother language properly. That is so awesome!
@@Aldrimon what do u expect? Most of the foreigners i know who learnt tagalog cant impersonate the tagalog accent perfectly because its hard for them to speak the correct pronunciation but its not that bad.
@@grim789 Two years of Spanish in high school. Duolingo, Berlitz, Rosetta Stone, and a quarter in college of Russian. Worked with Ukrainians and spent a month and a half there overall. Reading comes easier to me than anything else. But I lose most of even that so quick.
As someone who is NOT deaf but fluent in ASL (American Sign Language), I’m curious if he knows any. This is my first encounter with this guy but I love watching these multiple language videos
Finally I heard someone from Slovenia speaking real Slovenian at 8:51! The girl really did her best to speak very clearly, I think I understood some of it by just trying to recognize words from other Slavic languages only. Please correct me if I'm wrong, I think she said something like: Hello, I am Živa and I would like to get a free hamburger. I am 17 years old and I go to school in Antwerp. Wouter, your reaction was priceless when she said it is Slovenian. A free burger well earned :)
@carsandsports123 thanks. By speaking I mean 4 advance level can do professional job in thise languages. 2 like street wise good can live with them. You need to live a language to learn a language ;p
Wow, I didn’t expect him to speak Hiligaynon apart from Tagalog/Filipino. He could even pass as a local as he used some uncommon words like “nalipay”. Very inspiring! I want to learn other languages too.
When speaking Spanish, keep in mind gender while using adjectives, for instance a hamburger will be usually be referred as female (not for any specific reason just because really), so if a burger is vegetarian, that would be hamburguesa vegetariana the a at the end specifies the gender, instead of vegetariano as used in the video which indicates male gender, very wholesome video nice job
Usually words that end with a are female, words that end with o are male, with a few exceptions, so a hamburger or hamburguesa ends with a, so is female, therefore es vegetariana, ending with a, instead of vegetariano, ending with o
My brother studied languages at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center in California. The pace of study was intense. Students had to master the language course in 36-64 weeks. Psychologically it was very difficult, but fortunately he was helped by Yuriy Ivantsiv's book "Polyglot Notes. Practical tips for learning foreign languages”. The book " Polyglot Notes" became a desk book for my brother, because it has answers to all the problems that any student of a foreign language has to face. Thanks to the author of the channel for this interesting video! Good luck to everyone who studies a foreign language and wants to realize their full potential!
13:19 what the hell man? Didn't see THAT coming... I would never think that someone in the world beyond Buryatia knows language of my ethnicity. even I being Buryat don't speak my language even a bit just because we live in Russia (Buryat Republic) and it's not that necessary. It's so sad that our language is considered as one of dying languages right now. By the way I'm so impressed of you. shotout from Buryatia!
Learning languages to him is probably like playing video games. Learning mazes, solving puzzles and combining effects to reach a goal. You get good at what you practice.
Pessoal que fala espanhol ou italiano misturam línguas quando falam português pela proximidade kkk boa correção isso acontecia comigo e as vezes misturo com italiano apesar que sou hispânico
I so wish I had a knack for languages, that must be so much fun to be able to communicate with so many people in their native language- which always puts a smile on their faces!
little correction: the last girl don't speak "congolese" (by the way, congolese is not a language) but she is a togolese. She speak "ewe" which is one of togo language and togo is a country in west africa.
I never expected him to be able to speak Buryat! Holy shit’ I’m buryat myself so while watching this video I imagined what would’ve happened if I was there, I was confident about getting a free burger but turned out he could speak Buryat!
I love your videos so much. I love how you are willing to admit that even if you speak a language that sometimes you don’t speak as well as you like, and you aim to improve.
Cool to see how passionate this guy is about language. He seems equally excited when he gets to converse with someone in another language as he does when someone speaks a language he doesn't know.
I’m so glad someone knows Hiligaynon and not just Tagalog!! It’s considered to be the nicest sounding language in the Philippines. you can’t tell if someone speaking Hiligaynon is angry or not because of the sing-songy accent. Kung gusto mo magtuon Hiligaynon, kadto diri sa Iloilo kay tudluan ta gd ka!
I love how he didn't put in what she was saying in English or what he said back to her until the burger part! At least I could understand it but that's because they were speaking so slowly. I tried watching Polish news with my Grandma once, that was a huge nope!
Dude, I'm from Iran, Farsi (Persian) which is spoken in Iran and Dari (Afghani) which is spoken in Afghanistan and Tajiki which is spoken in Tajikistan are the same languages, we completely can understand each other, they just use other words. BTW your Persian accent is more sounds like you're from Afghanistan. Love your videos.
I’m from the US, and started learning Persian a couple months ago. I learned long ago that they’re the same language, but whether this is actually so seems to differ depending on the Persian-speaker you’re talking to.
@@seandavila835 well they all are Persian but Afghanis form is closer to the Persian root and Iranian Persian is more affected by new word from English and Arabic we all can understand each other tho But for example as a Iranian guy when I hear dari or this guy in the video spoke Persian I was like this is like ancient Persian which used to talk in my country
salom aleykum ʙa oilai man az Eron🇮🇷 va az Afgoniston🇦🇫, man az Tocikistonam🇹🇯 in the past, during the Soviet Union, the communists inspired us that our brothers are Russians, Ukrainians, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz and other peoples of the communist country. we have lost our writing: we use Cyrillic. we have almost lost the literary language: most use colloquial. we have lost the Iranian-Tajik cities and territories: Bukhara, Samarkand, etc. For almost 70 years we have been made into atheists, our mosques and madrasahs have been turned into Russian baths. but the communists failed to destroy our faith in Allah. mo tocikon dusvorixoi zijodero pasi sar kardaem, to imruz guem, ki Eronu Afgoniston ʙarodari most. Iltimos ʙarodaroni xurdiatonro faromus nakuned!
I bought a crepe from an albanian dude today 😂 didn't speak any English and he asked me if i spoke italian but when i started speaking italian with him he barely spoke any and kept asking around if anyone knew English But its really my fault for not speaking albanian
I speak English fluently and have conversational Spanish skills (not as good as I used to be but I’m better than most people I know) and it’s tough to keep my Spanish language skills sharp. The fact that he can speak so many languages blows my mind.
I love languages and your knowledge is truly awesome! I speak only 3 languages but always had affinity. If once I’d bump into Wouter, I hopefully would catch him with the most unique and hardest language I speak: Hungarian.
Swahili is my favorite because unlike english you pronounce it literally like you read it and the sounds are much more conducive to masculine vocal ranges and tongues than most, it's like a breath of fresh air after the high pitched languages of southeast asia/pacific islands, spitty languages of central europe, or the tonal languages of east asia
@@lawtraf8008 Not well, but I can hear it and read it without really having had any formal training or practice other than a set of cassette tapes I listened to for a couple months in the 1990s before visiting Africa... Other languages like Spanish, German, Russian, and Tagalog I've studied for decades and still struggle to hear them at that level, though I know a lot more words and grammar rules in them. @Mishiki Crisy The grammar is very different...not sure of the technical terminology, but there is a lot of compounding of words and editing of prefixes to match objects and a sentence can be just a few heavily modified base words. It has similarities I think to Arabics and Bantus I think, but with the roman alphabet and literal rules that are followed pretty well.
im learning dutch and after polish person spoke I heard you say "ik spreekt niet genoeg" or "ik spreken niet genoeg" (one of those, I can't exactly hear) and I'm very proud of myself for picking that up and understanding what you were saying :D
People reciting a phrase of a language they like is not actually speaking the language. I think you do yourself a disservice by allowing this. I would prefer that they are conversational in a language to qualify for a reward.
Valid point! I think some of it is just fun and games for Wouter. Also, it may be difficult for him to verify at the time how proficient they are in a language without giving them some sort of language aptitude exam. I think that’s why he tries to make them speak longer
@@bonjourbraxton The girl who said a phrase in Swahili at 9:29, then said "that's all I know", so clearly she couldn't speak the language. At 12:05 the black guy says he knows a little Swahili, Woulter says if you speak it you get a free burger but the guy couldn't so didn't win. This is common in other videos which I've already commented on. I know some phrases in a few languages languages but have never said I speak the language.
Swahili my language! I have been waiting for Swahili and finally! You should learn Swahili Wouter it will be very easy for you considering your Knowledge in languages
13:20 Oh my! Even I (buryat) don't speak my own language. And it is even more shame on me when I see that man speaking it. Thanks Wouter, very entertaining and encouraging video. Спасибо, баярлаа! P.s. feel so cold watching you standing there in t-shirt only:)
Wow really good! This man is a genius. He speaks in Tagalog and Hiligaynon in the Philippines and I was surprised he is fluent in my native language here in Manila. Keep up the good work. God bless you..
I only know 5, learning another at the moment all fluent not semi fluent. This guy and your wife are absolute goals, it's hard to study and keep up with the languages especially the lingo but the amount of people from other places in the world who are surprised to know you speak their language is the ultimate source and inspiration. Peace and love.🌍
I’m from Switzerland and over here is very common, we speak 4 languages as a base, then if you come from an immigrant family you got one extra language, if you’re like many of my friends who have both immigrant parents from two different countries you get two more languages, so that’s 6, then many people study Latin in school that makes it 7, on top of that people learn Spanish very easily so that’s 8, add to that dialects and you can easily reach 9. I myself speak: Italian English Swiss German French Somali Arab And Ticinese (which is an Italian Swiss dialect) It’s very common over here, sometimes I like to flex to my American and British friends. After you speak so many languages they become very easy to learn, you can find similar words in each one of them. I also speak sign language, and can say few words in, Portuguese, Turkish, Bosnian and Albanian all learned from my friends.
That is a nice match for me, it would be nice to conversate with her, since I know 9 languages (one of them is my own, so we cannot take it too seriously).
First time catching one of your videos, though shocked you didnt know Swahili at the start I was hugely impressed with all the very diverse languages you are conversant in, tribal languages in Africa are very tricky unlike Swahili, I spent a long time trying to learn kikuyu language without much success on my overseas trips to Kenya
He did not spoke in Portuguese (Portugal). He spoke in Portuguese almost from Brazil but with Spanish words mixed. Congratulations for trying and for speaking so many languages!
Yeah, but neither did the woman. She said "Portugau" (Brazilian accent) instead of "Portugal", then she said "dja" instead of "já", and then she said "dois horas". She might know some Portuguese (maybe her parents were Portuguese), but she's definitely not from Portugal.
I'm actually surprised you couldn't speak Swahili Wouter. Hopefully one day soon we could see you blossom in it. I'm trying to prepare for a vacation to Kenya one day, so it definitely is useful for that
he's not knowledgeable in African languages. The fact that he doesn't speak Swahili which is literally the most spoken language in the continent is very disappointing for someone who claim to love languages
Of course. This is a scam. He says the same phrases in every language, many arent even relevant to the conversation. He even answers question incorrectly.
@@spiritsplice you can't expect him to be fluent in ever language he practices, and obviously he is going to study them a lot more. Basic greetings and conversation is the best way to get an understanding of the language
Big respect Greek is one of the most difficult languages he may not be totally fluent with it but the fact that he was able to switch so quickly from another language and back to English thats amazing!!!💜🖤💜🖤
@@halutena736 100% One thing I really don't like about Wouter is he doesn't focus on being fluent or even improving in a language before moving onto another, so his pronunciation and accent is often abysmal in all of them When he tried to speak Bulgarian in another video it was horrifically bad
this guy pulled a million paper cards out the same spot in his wallet, god damn wormhole opened up inside the mans wallet to another dimension entirely made out of free burger cards and everytime this giant hand of god seemingly appears out of nowhere and tears out the public library
I speak 8 languages here in India, and other multiple local unwritten dialects but none of it are international, so i can fill myself pretty well if I meet you.
I speak 4 languages tried learning more but lost interest. I can easily win this challenge. You know 8 languages, that is cool wish I could find the motivation to learn one more language.
Tolkien's languages have a lot of adjectives and physical nouns, but very little in the way of verbs and abstract nouns. So it's hard to construct phrases. This from someone who kept journals in Tengwar (phonetic alphabet-- transcribing English words though) for privacy for about 6 years.
Wouter'ın Türkçesi de bana Arjantinli arkadaşım Miguel'in türkçesini hatırlattı. It's very hard to be a deep conversation level of speaker in Turkish for a foreigner. Because not only our language is complex but also our society. You have learn a bit from everthing and there's a lot of content in Turkish. Literally we are in the middle of everything. Uzun lafın kısası bizim dili çok iyi konuşamasan da helal olsun Wouter, Türkçe konuşmanı beklemiyordum. Türkçe öğrenirken çok benzer bir lehçe olan Azerbaycan Türkçesine bir göz atmana tavsiye ederim. O da çok güzel bir dildir. Türkiye'den selamlar.
Many ppl who learn multiple languages speak Latin, Asian and European languages which are common. I think you are dope but many don’t tend to be interested in learning much African languages/dialect. Mad respect to you if you do start.
I was thinking to myself, he's gonna hand me that juicy burger when i bring out my "bisaya" but when he spoke a native language "hiligaynon" at 2:29 from my country, i was blown away. This guy is insane, wow.
