How and why polyglots don't confuse languages 

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did anyone notice Richard changing his accent after he was asked the first question? He sounded American to me :D

This is awesome! I watched this video long time ago and I didn't understand Italian, now I'm back and I know Italian lol

Italian sounds so much like Spanish that I didn't even need subtitles to understand the interview.

AHH I love how Richard starts speaking with a North American accent haha

I would love to have English subtitles for this video! :) You guys are great and I would love to understand what you were talking about in all these languages!

This is so cool. I'm Cuban/Honduran/American, I'm 13 and I speak English (obviously), Spanish, Portuguese, Galician, Hungarian(a bit rusty tho),and am learning Basque and Albanian.

I understood everything and I don't even consider myself a polyglot.

I speak English, French and Portuguese but I haven't put more than a few minutes of study into Italian, yet I'm floored by how much of what he said I was able to pick up on. That's just what I love about romance languages 😊 you learn one and the next one is easier, and your comprehension of all of them gets better as you progress

It doesn't work exactly the same, but once you start accumulating a few (especially if they're similar), you can switch mid-sentence without warning. Generally, it's not that huge of an issue once you get into the rhythm, but it can happen easily. For instance, about a month ago, I gave a presentation to a class in China in Chinese about Italy and I kept accidentally switching to Italian, because I was thinking of my time in Italy. It happens and you really have to pause to recenter yourself.

É realmente muito interessante e estimulante ver pessoas poliglotas conversando. São sem dúvida pessoas cultas e com ampla visão de mundo. Parabéns aos três e que sirvam de exemplo a todos.

The Italian dude's Russian is very impressive.

i love how richard just randomly starts speaking in an american accent

Very insightful and useful video. I particularly liked Susanna's idea of intentionally avoiding languages the night before a linguistic performance of sorts. Languages are, in my experience, a good balance of fun, dedicated work, and performance. The environment can feel a lot more stressful when actually speaking with others who know the language and it can be easy to allow words from other (especially related) languages to slip in. Thanks for this video!

la vidéo est vraiment énorme :) en plus, votre français est impeccable ! La question du "language switching" me taraude depuis pas mal de temps, je vois que vous avez de l'expérience en la matière... et effectivement quand on est capable de passer sans effort d'une langue à l'autre, c'est vraiment génial !

Amazing!! I'm 19 years old and I speak Spanish, Spanish, Spanish and I am learning Spanish.

Lucaaa tu español es increíble! Lo digo porque es mi lengua materna y oír a un extranjero cuya lengua nativa no es el español hablar bien el idioma es raro, pero tú lo hablaste como un nativo. No cometiste ninguna falta en la gramática ni en la pronunciación y tienes un muy buen vocabulario. You guys, the three of you did it great. I wanna be a polyglot too I guess with time I'll be able to master and polish the languages I'm learning. But for now I'm proud to call myself a bilingual, that's something :)

We still need English subtitle for this video... Luca is speaking italianisj and I wanna understand him..

Good job on all your languages. Keep up your work!

Very motivating to watch. I know that speaking multiple languages is not a 'super power', but its difficult to not be in awe each time I hear a multilingual conversation especially between such amazing polyglots. I am less than a year into learning my first second language at 32 years of age. It's very hard, but very enjoyable! Thank you for sharing this video.

OMG how can you guys deal with so much information? This is really spiring...and I used to think I knew a lot!!! A few words in Spanish, Italian, French, Chinese, Japanese, Esperanto, Portuguese...lol...hugs from Brazil...

An inspiring video! I am (merely) bilingual, but have a whole host of friends that I grew up with that are also bilingual in the same two languages. Ever since we were children, we expressed ourselves in a mismash of the two languages, using whichever vocabulary best expressed our thoughts. For example, English phrases were used for technical words but Persian phrases for more emotive or idiomatic phrases. Of course this would change depending on our moods or the topic at hand! Our parents would constantly remind us to "stick to one language at a time!" because they were worried we would forget how to speak fluent Persian. I found it fascinating to hear about your thoughts on feeling free to speak in whichever language you want to speak in, to not censor yourself. After hearing this, I have a new-found appreciation for the environment I am in, that I have the freedom to not censor myself in that way. Thanks for the video and the multilingual transcript! I'm currently looking to improve my French, so I found that listening comprehension particularly useful!

That interview finished way too fast. One of the most enjoyable interviews I've seen. I would have loved to be there, though I could only speak 3 of the languages used well.

entendía muy bien todo hasta que comenzaron con el ruso...

Merci Luca, c'est très intéressant d'entendre tes méthodes!

You can put captions on RU-vid.

Dear Luca, dear Richard, this was just great (I particularly liked the intro :-). I understood most of it, but struggled a bit with the Russian, since my level is way lower than yours. I will try to make it to the Polyglot Conference, I' m sure it is a lot of fun.

Buen video, Luca. Dime por favor, piensas que es mejor aprender y dominar un idioma antes de aprender otro? Or is it ok to just "kind of" know one (o sea, como intermedio) and then take on a new one? Porque estudio español y aunque lo hablo bastante bien, tengo mucho que mejorar. Bueno, con el tiempo me gustaría aprender francés, italiano, ruso, alemán, etc..

I'm fluent in Hindi, Punjabi and English and currently Я учу русский язык в Дели (I'm learning Russian in Delhi).

Hosting you, my dear polyglot friends, was not only a pleasure but lots of fun too :) Such a great inspiration, motivation and mentorship for me :) You guys rock! :)

It's interesting to here this. I speak three languages at home and I have a few friends that speak all three languages(to a certain extent) so we express ourselves in all three languages sometimes. I can say five words in Russian then a few in English and after that words in Hebrew. It's a whole mess but it's funny and interesting to listen to. :) I'm glad I watched this and that Luca spoke Italian because when I listened I noticed that I understood a lot more of Italian than I did before. Although only a few words.

Hooray! I understood the English, Italian, French and Russian which you spoke. Now I "just" need to learn to speak these languages as well as you guys :)

It's an awesome video, Luca!! Great ^^

Richard, Luca ... Come visit me in Asia and you can work on Japanese, Chinese, Thai, Indonesian, Vietnamese, etc.

What makes a Venetian accent? Com'è l'accento della Venezia?

Richard and I (Susanna) did a video in Bosnian-Serbian-Croatian. Look at Richard Simcott's channel for the video about Sarajevo and Ladino.

i too am trying to learn greek :) is it modern or ancient greek what you're learning?

I think this video was very inspiring for any person that is able to understand all languages that were spoken , but it should had been done with subtitles in english, since english is spoken by millions of people around the globe I was able to understand all languages except russian it was nice to see this video with susana , richard,&luca very impressive how they can switch from one language to another, but like I said it would had been nicer if these polyglots would had thought about others that are not able to speak & understand those languages that were spoken in this video any way it was interesting watching these gifted people!!!

subtitles ?

Me han gustado sus ideas. Yo también he experimentado lo que dice Luca sobre unos idiomas que se apoyan sobre otros en tu cabeza. También es verdad que las lenguas se colocan como "en su sitio" dentro de tu cerebro.

yo hablo español, francés e ingles y puedo decir que todos tienen muy buenos acentos en esos idiomas!

FELICIDAD!!!!! entendí el Inglés Italiano y Español, saludos desde México :D

It'll be very kind of you to put on this video the substitles because when they speak in an others languages than French and English I don't understand at all.

So I understood the Spanish section and a teensy bit of the Italian. Videos like these make me want to be a super polyglot but I'm taking it one language at a time. I'm looking forward to seeing the translation and getting in on the jokes ;)

Ton Français est impeccable Richard, поздравление!

Bellissimo video come sempre ragazzi! Sei que ainda não sou um grandíssimo poliglota como vocês, mas é o meu sonho de vida. I believe it's already more than just a hobby, it's become a passion! Это сложно - иметь мотивацию, чтобы учиться в университете, работать и ещё изучать языки. Pero hace más de 1 año que estoy tratando de mantener mis estudios de idiomas. Ik hoop dat ik binnenkort hun beter zal spreken. Ce sont les langues que je connais. =) Até a próxima, galera!

Ma, quando parlano Italiano, parlano con le loro mani =) This is such an interesting video, and great listening practice too!

How do you guys make a living? I'm a German bachelor degree major at university in the US and I speek it fluently and basically have a fetish for the culture, language, and people. Unfortunately I don't know what the hell I'm going to do with my degree unless I pursue a masters in linguistics and/or anthropology. Before I do that I'd like to find an internship of some kind to gather practical experience. Do you guys have any suggestions? They'd be much appreciated!! Amazing videos by the way!!

I understood both the english and spanish part :) It feels great at the very least to be biligual. Solo entendi el ingles y el español :) la verdad que bien se siente saber por lo menos dos idiomas.

Luca, what is your purpose to stay in Poland? You are only there to meet Richard? How did you manage to meet him?

Impressionante!!!

Сюзанна, говорит по-русски просто превосходно. Лучше чем Лука и Ричард вместе взятые. Да что там говорить, она разговаривает даже лучше чем я(русский для меня родной).

e per l'accento? and for accent?

Good evening Teacher Luca Lampariello. Amazing this video but I do not understand all because my first lenguaje is spanish and my english is not very good. But same thanks and take care Teacher. Good bye.

The best intro ever haha :D , by the way please insert subtitles in english , because no everyone speak in many languages YET:D

A juicio personal creo que todos alguna vez nos hemos confundido y evadir el pasticho mental es cuestiòn de practica. Les cuento que hace como 5 años me inscribi en un curso para aprender portuguès. Solo asistì dos semanas porq comenzaba hablando en portuguès y terminaba hablando italiano, y ni me percataba en que punto habia pasado de una lengua a otra. :-(

Ciao Luca ... ma dove hai preso quel fake accent (veneto?)... perché non impari il latino così poi mi aiuti a tradurre tacito? Difficile il polacco ? E' vero che il finlandese è il più difficile d'Europa? L'arabo ?

I have wondered even before Latin became the romance languages, Before the rise of the roman empire were there other languages similar to Latin spoken in surrounding Rome not including Greek. I would like to learn about them.

I'm American and Im fluent in both Italian and Spanish, but honestly, many times a word will pop out in the wrong language here and there in conversation.😌 A lot depends on your mother tongue and if the languages you learn are in the same family.🙃

J'ai tout compris jusqu'au moment où ils ont bifurqué vers le russe. ^^

Se me hace raro que Luca se limite a hablar solamente un idioma por persona, los tres son buenísimos en lo que hacen un saludo.

Haha cos'era una sorta di romagnolo misto vicentino??? I am so used to your actual accent 🤣🤣 Love to see an Italian and a Welshman speak different languages. I am a half Italian and a half Welsh and love learning languages as well. I have half Armenian cousins as well and when they were kids one of them told me 'I will turn you into an Armenian speaking man' he meant he wanted to teach me Armenian. It was such a clever way to put it...

As a learner of French I was dead chuffed to understand the French conversation as well as the English one. Now to learn the rest …

where is the script?

I'm 18 and trying to learn my 3rd language- french(I'm fluent in English and Latvian, I also understand a bit of Russian and Spanish but can't really speak them) and want to become a true polyglot someday. These people are an inspiration and at the same time listening to them speak makes me tuck my tail between my legs in shame and makes me feel kind of worthless. I've lost my motivation and just can't seem to do anything regardless of any goals or dreams.

Ciao, Ludwig. Parlo il finlandese e l'arabo. Sono cresciuto in Finlandia e ho fatto scuola in finlandese. Allora, la parlo abbastanza bene. Ho parlato l'arabo per 12 anni. Penso che il finlandese e piu difficile da imparare. Credo che il finlandese e la lingua piu difficile in Europa.

Thanks.

Being a native Portuguese speaker I like the sound of the Italian language because even that I never stop to learn the language, I can understand though

That beginning is freaking hilarious

È proprio un peccato che non parli lingue antiche, mi sarebbe proprio piaciuto conoscere la tua opinione sul latino o il greco antico. Ad ogni modo aspetto il libro per cercare di adattare i tuoi consigli a questi lingue che pur sempre lingue sono e varranno ugualmente.

Ho capito quasi tutto in questo video perché parlo l'italiano, il francese, l'inglese, lo spagnolo e il portoghese, però gli ultimi due minuti non ho capito nulla. Je veux améliorer mon italien parce que J'ai commencer à l’apprendre cette année. Talvez depois eu vou aprender o indonésio porque é uma língua mt legal e porque há muitas pessoas que falam essa língua estrangeira.

Latin, and therefore all other romance languages, are part of a language family called the Italic language family. But Latin in itself is the only one that survived eventually developing into the Romance languages. All other italic languages are extinct, and as far as I know, not that much is known about them.

I love the Chime then they all start laughing hehehe ='D was funny :)

Лука, очень впечатляющее видео! У тебя некоторые русские слова звучат уже абсолютно по-русски :)

Okay guys,help me.I need some friendly support.I already know English and now I am in the middle of my German,which I don’t fancy a lot but I am determined to learn by the end of this year so that I can move to Spanish and the other Latin languages (French,Italian and Portuguese). Do you think I can make it and won’t forget the languages I’ve already learnt? I need some supporting words,ppl around me don’t understand my passion for languages…danke

I'm a native Spanish speaker, I can speak and understand,read,& speak in this order English, Italian,French, I'm 62 yrs old &the last language that I have an intermediate level of fluency is Portuguese although sometimes I wonder if I have a higher level of knowledge because in 8 months that I study Portuguese I can speak, written,&read it though, what is the purpose of this video without subtitles lets say English which is widely spoken by a higher number of people can be understood unless the video was made to be seen by polyglots only...

Thanks ! Gracias ! Grazie ! Merci ! ça fait du bien : je me sens moins seule

Well that is true for anyone. And he could have said the same things using another language. Actually this is one of the few videos where he speaks italian given the fact that he could speak any of the several languages that he knows. I guess sometimes it's nice to go back to your own roots :)

I am Susanna and I am a Russian heritage speaker. It's my first language but I speak better English than Russian.

The transcript is now available on Luca's blog. The link is above in the description.

Perchè l'accento veneto?:) credevi fossi romano, o mi sbagliavo?

Com'è che 5 anni fa avevi l'accento romano, e adesso hai quello veneto?

je veux parler 5 langues à la maison aussi :D

Luca in sto video sembra romagnolo.

14:32

Ahahaha, non ho mai studiato spagnolo ma riesco a capirti tranquillamente, più del francese che studiai per 3 anni.. E tutto grazie ai gesti che fai xD L'espressività di un italiano è unica :)

why did he choose to answer in italian??

It sounds very nice to hear serbian word... Luca, would you learn Serbian? Било би лепо чути да неко говори на ''нашем језику'' :) Greetings!

E porque não falaram português?

Without at least English subtitles this video is pretty much useless.

En este video el unico que falta es tim y hubiera sido un video grandioso

Susanna, I liked that you began to use gestures right away when spoke Italian. Did you notice?)) Guys, about "to censor" in Russian.. Я думаю, что лучше всего сказать: "подвергать цензуре". Люка, мне кажется, у тебя очень хорошее произношение в русском. Даже и не похоже, что ты иностранец :))))

i really don't know how it's possible to maintain more than 6 languages at a fluent level without forgetting some others....

I have no experience backing me really, but confusing languages doesn't seem like such a big issue. How many games do you know how to play? Why don't we confuse the rules of each game? We just learn them, and get used to them, basically.

Alter falter! Richards Amerikanischer Akzent ist echt er Hammer! Wahnsinnig wie er es so natürlich klingen lässt. Aber man kann das von so einem Menschen erwarten. Dein deutscher ist auch nicht schlecht, Luca!

Susanna speaks Russian very good. I can't beleive she is not Russian. Luka speaks Russian also very good with short phrases. But in more complicated sentences I can hear his Mediterranean accent. I can here some Polish words in Richard's speach what means it's hard to speak some slavic languages without confusing them. But Susanna... I'm very impressed especially with her fluency and her accent.

Спасибо большое (Cycaнна)

bravissimi! io parlo italiano e da due anni perfetti e fluenti francese e inglese (vivo in canada) se vi serve una mano in più ...eccomi! buona fortuna

Finalmente un italiano che parla lo spagnolo al mio livello!! E poi sinceramente non capisco perché tanti italiani quando parlano spagnolo pronunciano come i sudamericani

Lots of fun. I had to pretend that I stepped out to get a cup of coffee during the Russian bits since I don't know that language. I hope that you didn't say anything super fantastic in that section, the critical linguistic puzzle piece that would have turned my language-learning world inside out. Somebody let me know, please.