Harvard, how many languages do you speak? 

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If you speak two languages, you’re bilingual. Three languages? You’re trilingual. Only one language? Congratulations! You’re American 😂

Foreign students are the only speaking other languages 😂

A quantidade de brasileiros em Havard é de impressionar. 🇧🇷

I’m 15 and I speak in kazakh, russian,English,turkish languages. I proud of that I’m from Kazakhstan. Because everyone in Kazakhstan knows or understands this languages very well

Being Harvard students, I was expecting way more people to speak in at least another language. The only ones speaking two or more were the foreigners.

If you go to the polyglot conference and ask them "how many languages do you speak?", it would be very interesting :)

É incrível saber quando uma pessoa é brasileira antes mesmo dela falar que sabe português😂

love the purity of this video, not much unnecessary edit and annoying sound, just simple cut and really show the nuances of the video 🥰

The fact that the guy at 1:28 started learning English at the age of 16-17 and still made it to Harvard is crazy.

I speak three languages: Argentinian, Peruvian and Uruguayan. And sometimes I understand Chilean, but it is very difficult.

chocada com a quantidade de brasileiros em Harvard!! fiquei super inspirada! i hope i can get to this level one day!!!!

Love seeing Brazilians at Harvard 🇧🇷

i'm surprised about the lack of variety of languages. it seemed to be mostly Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German. i thought i'd see a lot more Chinese languages

To the girl who spook Arabic. That was amazing! Both in grammar and pronunciation! Btw she also said "Good morning" but forgot to translate it haha. Good luck to everyone wishing and is learning any language. It is tough, but the result is just beautiful and satisfying :)

I really enjoy this series, it makes me really want to step up and learn more languages!

It is interesting to observe the answers of teachers and students. The teachers always specify the level of each language they speak.😊

It surprises me how many Harvard students speak only one language or just "one and a half". I mean, in Spain you cant graduate from University without a B2 level (upper-intermediate) in a second language, and Im talking about every University in the country. I thought for Harvard you would need at least 3.

I can’t believe I’ve been in Montreal for 1.5 years now and Dan still haven’t asked me how many languages I speak 😢

as an Eastern European, I am always shocked that people barely speak one or two languages here, even at a school like Harvard! I graduated from high school in Poland speaking 4, I later acquired a few more languages. Huge foreign language crisis in the US right now.

Amazing ! As an American, I speak 3 languages. Spanish (Native Speaker), English and French. Learning langauges is something I love!

"I speak all the languages when I'm drunk" - a Croatian wisdom

The girl who spoke Arabic had a great accent but she’s so right that Arabic grammar is super difficult!

this makes me feel good thank you sir

Incrível como a gente sempre vai reconhecer um brasileiro de longe kkk tanto pela aparência quanto pelo sotaque 😂❤

2:02 As a Brazilian I felt so happy to see these two, It's so good to see Brazilian people around the world

I speak six languages: English, Spanish, Italian, German, Russian and a year of French in college. Covid allowed me the chance to spend three hours a day on three languages and I haven’t missed a day since!

the energy at Harvard seems so positive and happy!

Watching this incredible video, I'd like to share my little story of speaking a few languages too! I am 19, just got into an American university and super excited about how things will work out! Originally from Afghanistan, I entered the United States 4 months ago to start a new chapter of life. Besides my native language which is Persian/Dari, I can speak English, Pashto, Hindi, Urdu, Arabic, Turkish and some very basic Polish and Yiddish; and I am looking forward to take Russian classes at my university. I managed to learn to speak English properly with a relatively good accent in 20 months, started when I was 17. I was always encouraged by my parent's interests to speak more languages and they always used to tell me how my ancestors were tradesmen of the Silk Road, and how they would communicate with people, starting from China and ending to Greece and even Italy. Fast forward to the end of 2023, We had a general essay requirement for the university application and the theme which I selected for my essay was: My journey of learning English, by thinking in English. Because that's what I actually did! At the time when I was learning English, I practiced having an English language reaction to EVERYTHING I saw or heard, and I programmed my mind in a way that it could process just about everything I saw or heard, in English, so that I wouldn’t have to squander my time by starting a translation chain from Persian (the default language of my thoughts) to English and then speaking it out. I cannot even find the right words to express how impressed I was, and how much it affected my language learning journey. One thing I love the most about being multilingual, especially since I entered the United States, is the fact that everyone is just so invested into talking to you and interacting with you that you will never feel alone or sidelined, which would legitimately be my greatest fear. I always loved being social and socializing with a lot of people, and therefore jobs which require a lot of interacting with random people, like food service industry or drive-thru, seemed quite appealing to me. I wish everyone success in their language learning journeys.

Que loucura, não sabia que tinha tantos brasileiros em Harvard.

Fun fact, which is also really surprising: The person at 1:16 is Samuel Bosch, he is known for being the youngest doctorand at MIT, having finished a practice at M&A with the salary of $15,000/month, and also for having the best A-Levels in all of Croatia.

I feel motivated by your videos because I am learning English and I see a lot of people who know other languages it's very motivated. Thank you for your work it is amazing. Greetings from Colombia.

Очень удобно быть русскоязычным, потому что вроде как ты говоришь на русском, но и при этом отлично понимаешь украинский, белорусский, польский, словацкий, сербский и немного чешский)

I can speak Canadian, American, Englandish, Australian, and am currently learning New Zealandi. Wish me luck!

always amazed at individuals who can speak more than 2 languages natively. I spoke with a Korean-American once, and she was absolutely fluent in both Korean and English. most Korean-Americans I meet can speak either with an accent on one or even both, but I've seldom met anyone who can speak both without any. it was pretty insane listening to her reading both Korean and English books.

The woman who spoke in arabic did really well! Arabic is my native language so it was easier for me, but even Native speakers agree that its hard! Grammer was such a struggle but I love my language! One thing that makes it harder is that in the arab region we all speak in our own dialect that is different from what we learn in school!

The video is inspiring, it encourages me learn a second language which is quite cool.

I have a cousin in Switzerland who is seven and is fluent in seven languages. French, Swiss German, English, German, Irish, Italian and Croatian. Her mother is Croatian- French and her father is Irish who grew up in a Gaeltacht area (my blood uncle) and they lived in Italy for three years before moving to Germany for a couple months and finally landing in Switzerland. (Her father taught her Irish and they speak French and Irish + English at home and Croatian with their grandparents)

He needs to ask this Question to folks in Montreal. I've worked with Montrealers that speak as many as 7 languages. It's incredible!

2:20 Representantes brasileiros em Havard 🇧🇷❤️

Muito feliz de ver brasileiros por aí ❤

Que orgulho dos brasileiros!! A primeira moça que fala 4 idiomas me impressionou, e a camisa do cara "pega o eixão, depois o eixinho, faz a tesourinha e sobe no balão" hahahaha entendi nada

I'm Brazilian, and I loved seeing Brazilians at Harvard

Multilingual people are an inspiration. I learned Hindi & Punjabi in school for 7 years and can only just get by shopping and ordering food, although I can read and write both. I’ve now been trying to learn Spanish for years but no where near fluent. Envious of all these people!

Your videos it's helping me, I'm learning English, your videos are great 🥰🥰💖💖

Your talent at locating folks to interview continues to amaze and delight me. Another superb video! Merci de nouveau.🐢

I speak five languages: Russian, Tajik, Kazakh, English, and now I learn Greek language:)

I love multilingualism, it's so fascinating. It fuels me on my quest of learning other languages.

pretty cool to see some brazillians there haha, BRASILSILSIL!

Thanks for having me in the video 🙂 🐢

your videos is so nice to me, it is well interative and I m learn english !!!

I speak 4, and Im 15. It's coz, well, I'm from India, and almost all the states there have their own language. My mom and dad are from different states, so I know both, then Hindi and English. The first language I learned was English, and I watched a looot of Peppa Pig too (lol), from which I developed an accent. I just recently moved to Canada and knowing English well has helped sooo much, whether it be in social situations or in studies. People here are surprised when they hear my English, knowing the fact that I just moved recently. They say they don't hear "the Indian accent" which confuses me. It's not like I'm entitled to just NOT know English well or something, just coz I'm from India 😅. I'm also slowly learning french, so I hope to master that someday too!!

I like how the woman in the end when asked to speak French immediately hit him with the characteristic "euuuuuuhhhhh" 😆😆

Muitos falantes de português! Fiquei impressionado. A lot of Portuguese speakers. I'm impressed.

Thanks for writing the question after asking the same for three times in a row in the introductory part 😁

I feel so proud to see so much of Brazil in such a respected college! VAI BRASIL!!! BRASILSILSILSILSISLLLL

You should come to Luxembourg. It's impossible to find a monolingual person here.

It’s shocking that you can get to Harvard knowing only 1 language. I thought that those people are geniuses

0:48 he couldnt even communicate his points in english

8:00 That pronunciation was fantastic Juliette!

Love these types of videos. I'm an ongoing Korean learner and aspire to learn other languages in the future, like Spanish for one. Seeing so many other individuals who know or are learning two or more languages is so inspiring to see. Languages are such a beautiful thing🐢

it's easy to see which languages are dominant

As someone who’s learning German, this was kinda motivating to keep learning🥹

7:15 she looks so french with her sailor striped sweater

its weird how many german speakers are at havard. I grew up my whole life in the us and only met one maybe two other german speakers.

Love street interviews thank you for making these

Is he a Hogwarts professor 7:00

Amei-me em ver brasileiros em Harvard 🇧🇷

It's cool seeing a University edition of these!

7:14 im arab and this girl fr spoke like she was from lebanon

Incredibly surprising, as someone who is looking forward to learn 5 languages.. I expected so much more from them!

I speak four languages, but almost everyone in my country does too! Arabic, English, French and my native language which is "Darija" Almost everyone in Morocco is bilingual/trilingual

Orgulho do Brazil 🇧🇷, sei falar fluentemente português, inglês, espanhol, conheço o hebraico e Italiano

This is so interesting because nowadays, basically everyone whose first language isn't English learn it in school, so they end up with a relatively fluent foreign language and their first language, oftentimes you're required a second foreign language as well. And I haven't even mentioned minority languages or immigrants/kids of immigrants who might speak yet another language at home. Obviously there's not as much of an incentive for Americans/English native speakers in general to learn one, but even just from a point of understanding how language works, it's hugely beneficial.

All the guys are just cool!

As a person who learned a few languages (different levels), I don’t even have to use them 90% of the time. The other 10% I’m forcing it out in small convos with random people I’ll never see again or maybe my friend when he cares to

Once you speak 1 latin language like Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, it's a little bit easier to learn any of the others. This is why they all speak 2 or more languages. In my case 5.

Such an incredible video!!! I really love your "how many languages do you speak?" videos because it's becoming more and more interesting to know and get involved into the language learning field, please keep it up. Looking for new things to not get bored is always exciting and even healthy. Studying at Harvard University is wonderful because of its cozy environment, its international students, its nice outlook and so on. Moreover, I would love to be reborn to become one of its students, it would have been very good and rewarding I'm 24 years old, but I can't leave my current university in my home country 😢. 🐢

feliz demais em ver um cara de brasilia no video, harvard cheio de br e nois nem imagina ce ta doido

Most of the people in the comments bragging about knowing 4+ languages probably were forced to learn them at a young age or at home, or their native language has proximity to another (Dutch people understanding German for example). I bet very few of them started learning languages as a hobby out of the blue. I say that as a European who speaks 3 languages, we're not better than them just because we're polyglots. If we were Americans we wouldn't have bothered either.

6:39 whoever is this man he seems really cool and fun

The only ones who speak more than one language are the foreign students LOL

The person who said she can speak Taiwanese only pronounced one character correctly in Taiwanese. The rest of her sentence is all in Mandarin.

O tanto de br em Harvard me deixa orgulhoso

Keep it up, Dan! I love that you're going to different places!

5:06 I knew just by her pronunciation of Daniella that she speaks Portuguese!

I like how when you asked the last lady to say what she likes about Harvard in French she immediately transitioned to _(thinking in French)_ "uuuuuuuuh"

Muito bom que consigo reconhecer os brasileiros quando ouço a voz e o jeitinho de falar inglês, não sei porquê

A diva brasileira falando 4 línguas, ao lado do divo (bonitão). Parabéns, gente, que orgulho.

learning languages are very interesting!! spanish is my first language, and I know guaraní, english, some portuguese and I studying chinese… it’s amazing! 😊

Adorei o fato de ter mt br em havard e outras pessoas aprendendo português

😮 1:08 a little bit of sign language... im happy that you learned it

I enjoy these videos. I love language! It would be amazing if you made videos in even more other countries, particularly in non-English speaking countries.

WOW, those guys are my inspiration... my mother tongue is spanish and I speak english... not fluently yet but I'm on it, I'm also lerning french.... It's nice to see that many students speak spanish at Harvard

After watching a bunch of videos of this type I am pround to be from Tunisia where we have the chance to learn multiple languages since ever. Today I am 14 and I speak 4 languages( french, spanish, english, arabic) and I hope I will learn more and extend my vocabulary in each one knowing that arabic is my first language. Have a good day

Cool video!!

8:11 omg finally I find someone is learning my native language 💛💛💛💛💛btw her Arabic is so good

1:17, for someone who started learning English at 16 the dude speaks it very well in my opinion.

5:21, what the lady was speaking is actually not so called Taiwanese but Hokkian, and it was widely recognized as an dialect from Southeast of China, Fujian. Not only used in Taiwan, but also in mainland China, Singapore, and Malaysia. Like American people are speaking ‘English’ instead of ‘American’

I speak 3 languages fluently. It's actually very common in hong kong to be fluent in mandarin, cantonese and english. I can also understand korean but can't speak it very well, and learnt a bit of french and japanese.