Learning 7 languages this year was GENIUS 

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I'm also dabbling in Arabic, Spanish, and Swedish after getting better at French. It's been hella fun and great when I get tired of the same language day after day week after week

A cliffhanger that was for you and from you and from...deibus gallica et suecica ... the Gods of Swedish and French, love it.

The suspense! Great video dude. Must have taken a huge amount of work. Well done 👍

That ‘you are alone’ part 🤣 caught me off guard that I rewatched it a few times 😂😂

Is the Latin at the end a clue to it being a romance language? Your french knowledge may actually make mastering this new language easier if it's indeed Italian or Spanish or any of the other Latin descendants.

This year I dabbled in Finnish. I didn't get too far. I just learned a tiny bit of vocabulary and improved my listening comprehension. At least my motivation for my main target language sort of came back. It was getting a bit low.

I'm guessing Italian. Italian is the only language on your storylearning screen that shows a "start course" button rather than the number of courses available, which means that you had your mouse hovering over that button (about to enter the course?).

“Shut up and leave me alone” “You are alone” UNDERRATED JOKE, that was so hilarious 😂

Argh! I can’t believe how invested I was in that video! You could give the show runners at HBO a run for their money… When you mentioned Turkish at the start I was really excited. I have a ‘can get by’ level in French (but actually don’t like it so never had the motivation to continue), and like you have been invested heavily in Swedish. Met a guy from Turkey a few years ago and have been dating him ever since, but was fully invested in Swedish and didn’t want to distract myself from that. But now I figure I’m good enough at Swedish that I can start to learn one of his languages (he’s a Kurd, so it was a toss up between Kurdish and Turkish). So, you can imagine, at the start I was thinking we were going to be language twins! I’m even half way through Olly’s course in Turkish! 😂 I’m guessing that’s not the language you’ve chosen (proximity to Australia wise, because I can’t imagine a club or organisation forking out long distance fees, I’d guess Japanese… your son could be a master chess player or something though so what do I know?), but still. I can’t wait for the second instalment!

"shut up and leave me alone!" "you are alone..." im sry but this exchange had no damn business taking me out💀✋

If it's italian, you're in for a fun time. That's what I am currently studying and I enjoy it very much. As usually with my language learning, I start out with Duolingo until about half-way, before I go over to other sources like "Easy -- Insert language here --" on RU-vid, books etc.

So, I must have missed that video. I have been checking your channel for the last few months and thought you had basically had a change of heart and weren't going down the language content path anymore. This was a great vid. I will also use the link and try the StoryLearning Japanese course. Hopefully its easier to use than Linq, more productive than Duo, and more fun than Anki.

You bastard!! You're getting good at this keeping us hooked thing.

1:09 I relate to this heavily! My first language is Spanish and I can’t pick up any romance languages without being immediately bored. I’ve been in an on and off again relationship with Brazilian Portuguese for a solid year now. I (very) recently tried to pick up German but it sounds too similar to English and is starting to lose its charm on me. I took Japanese classes for a couple years and want to get into it again since it’s completely different from the languages I’m already fluent in.

He's right. Duolingo's study did find Duolingo effective. Really nothing to dispute there!

Great to hear your son will be competing in the Roman Empire!

Dude it's like watching lost all over again. Gripped all the way through and left on a cliff hanger. Mate your driving me nuts. Give us the next video, it feels like my chest is going to explode. Congratulations for your son mate.

There’s 8 story learning courses and of those, I’m ruling out Turkish and French. You said Turkish was too niche to gain much of a YT audience, and you already have enough of a background with French that I think you’d choose something else to dabble in. I’m going to guess Japanese because 1. I think you want to take all your newfound language learning skill and apply it to something difficult to see how it goes 2. It’s the most popular refold language so there’s crossover potential 3. Japan just seems like a country where they’d host some kind of crazy international robotics competition (or similar, I don’t know that it’s robotics). Could be way off but this is my best working theory. Of course Mandarin also fulfills these 3 criteria so *shrug*. You’ve made this very difficult, Lamont! Edit: Final answer Japanese because it's the only red and white flag (besides Turkish, which he's not doing)

I passed an A2 exam yesterday after 4 months of learning Spanish. My goal is to be a B1 conversationally by the end of this year, and pass a C1 exam in 3-4 years…. Once I do that I know I want to learn a third language. I’ve been going back and forth for a while ALREADY on which one it will be.

I have a feeling you might be learning Turkish? You said in one of your previous videos that's you'd happily swap your Swedish ability for the same ability in Turkish. You referenced at 1:40 a part of that video.

I would guess Japan, since you're in that region. It wouldn't be Russia (for obvious reasons), and you've already mentioned Turkish and Italian. You've already done French.

This cracked me up! Hilarious! The bit about the difference between an experiment and a plan was PRICELESS! To the point where soon I was laughing at stuff that wasn't even in it! When he got to the bit about travelling to the mysterious language's country, the video playing on my kitchen table and me over at the sink, I said out loud "NO WAY!", & immediately misheard him saying "YES, WAY!" as he finished up. I was buckled up! Now I've no idea what the language is, but I reckon I'll probably go and learn it, too.

I followed the 2 month language flirting experiment this year. My maintenance language is Spanish and I'm actively learning Classical Hebrew full focus and Yiddish soft focus. I flirted with Italian, Portuguese, Ukrainian, Russian, Aramaic, Arabic, and Japanese. I've studied Arabic, Italian, and Japanese before, but this year i gave it a short go for the experience. I'm thinking about focusing on Portuguese next year because there are a couple books I want to read in the original language. This might keep my interest!

Please make the reveal soon? 😢 I can’t bear it.

LAMONT HOW COULD YOU LEAVE US HANGING LIKE THAT

based on the book cover & typography location, its the spanish edition of the book. the english, portuguese and danish versions of this book have their type set differently, and the german, polish, korean and swedish ones are slightly different. I don't know of a japanese or chinese translation.

Benvenuto fra noi, caro Lamont! ;D (is my guess correct?) :D

“You are alone.” So suddenly sinister. I wondered if I was watching Fight Club.

Hey Lamont, how much of Norwegian can you understand with your current level of fluency in Swedish?

Oh no, I am so curious now, when is the answer coming?

Gambling shopping for books. Hit me again. I’m in heaven. I’m getting comfortable with Spanish so it’s time to start another.Romance or Russian

Yep! The suspense is tangible. Creators like you know to to string out the story line, so we're left wanting more 😳. C'mon! Spill the beans! I want to know more! Great video! 👍🏾🙏🏾🇬🇧

Book at 7:01 looks like "A Spot of Bother" by Mark Haddon. I feel like it is Spanish version of the book cover, but not sure. So my guess is that he is going to pick Spanish as a new language.

Ohhh you have built up wicked suspense!!! So exciting!

AHHHHHH i need to know!!!!

If it turns out to be Latin, I definitely could recommend an efficient reading plan. The typical internet advice of just reading through the textbook Lingua Latin per se Illustrata - Famila Romana is OK but incomplete. I have a spreadsheet with reading material ordered in a somewhat optimized way.

Would love to get more of your detailed reviews on language apps as a beginner/interview. I don't trust anyone else's reviews

Languages in the story learning listed under the video that are not common in Sydney are french, Spanish, German and japanese. French is ruled out as this is a new language. Your son "builds things" for competition and I know someone who worked at an illegal Korean daycare centre the taught kids to make basic robots. So japanese seems most likely. Latin words are probably just a red herring. Turkish are everywhere around aurburn, Italians are everywhere Chinese are everywhere. I guess there are some japanese in Eastwood but I don't think there are many in Sydney.

I'm going to guess you're going to visit Italy or Switzerland (where Italian is one of the official languages) in 2023. So, which country is it? Will you tell us?

Icelandic would give you sagas for stories (plus the nation that writes more poetry per capita to this day than any other, I've heard), and give you some added depth to go with things like the Swedish and even English, maybe. So my guess would be Tagalog.

Oooh evil cliff hanger! 😆 another brilliant video with brilliant insights! I’m going to guess Japanese. 🤔

I'm doing this. I'm learning Dutch and on the weekends I dabble in Catalan. Why Catalan? It's an easy language for me because I speak the most popular romance languages (Spanish, Portuguese, French and Italian) and I don't want to be stressed by learning a much more difficult language. It works for me

If it does turn out to be Latin, you just made my day. Would love it if the language I most want to learn and your channel had another connection. But, I guess, you foreshadowed back when you bought Harry Potter in Latin.

Jeez. I WISH I had your addiction and your “issue” about understanding it too easily lol. I’d like to see you do an in-depth recap of everything you’ve done to get to that point in Swedish and how many hours everything took.

if one guesses right, it is a coincidence, because there are many clues and any of them can be misleading. The form of the letters at the end you talked about in your answer to a comment? Gothic so German, plus I checked, there was a competition of "Cube" earlier in 2022 'German Mini Open B', but who knows...

"PAID OFF BEUTIFULLY!" ... ;)

You made me laugh! Thanks for your authentiscity.

02:42 Brilliant! my thoughts exactly! I just can't stand Russian Duolingo :( I'm working on a short fun video+pdf about how I would learn Russian if I had one week (lol) and if you are willing to give the language one more try - I'd like to send the materials to you and even if you won't learn anything, that could make you laugh hopefully! Super intriguing video! Happy to hear the story!

If you said overseas, it's not in Europe. Kids teaming up means basically videogames, so either you are talking about Korea, Vietnam or Brazil.

Your language journey is very entertaining, thanks for sharing! If you ever want to exchange some language ideas or do a collab, give us a shout! Never give up :)

Is it German? Because there's a lot of translations from the English market being translated into German every year. And it's on storylearning lol. I personally still hope it's Turkish bc that's the language I am currently learning

the production value and humor has gone up compared to you old videos. glad to see the growth as a long time sub hahaha

4:32 ~ I think you’re going with Italian.

I might do this sometime. :P

Très bon choix de musique ! :-)

1:05 is very true. I thought I was the only one who had this problem 😂

I speak Serbian, which uses identical grammar, and about 30% of same words as Russian, and I couldn't do duolingo Russian course, it's that bad. It literally got me frustrated instead of learning, I think I knew more Russian prior to starting duolingo. I don't like their Chinese, Korean, Japanese, as they force you to learn to write, and those language all sounds so weird (well, maybe not Japanese) that they should focus you more on getting used to weird sounds than to writing system. I passed entire German, and can't say a word of German, and am now on Spanish, and I feel like it's the first good one where I'm actually learning something. I'm yet to start thinking in Spanish, which, from my personal experience with language learning is crucial step, you can't speak if you can't think, and if you are translating, just throw the baby away with the bath water, you're wasting your time. Now, how to think in certain language, when you don't know that language. Just do it. Sure, you won't know all the words you might need, but that doesn't matter. You can think of a thing w/o thinking of a word for that thing. You just try to put words or thoughts rather, in right order. as you learn more words, you'll start to be able to actually speak it, and not just translate. Translate is opposite to speaking. duolingo teaches you to translate. unless you intend to work as a translator, it's useless skill. so, thinking is what you have to do. and movies and tv shows in target langue, if you can't go there and speak to people.

My bets are on Spanish. At 04:05 the Italien flag turns Mexican for one Frame, it is on the story learning site and you did not mention Spanish in the hole Video.

It has to be a storylearning language. Through some rough elimination (Turkish French Italian) I’m circling around Japanese/Chinese rn hmm. There’s a Panda & “soup of the day” so I’m really leaning toward Chinese. Wonder if “convergence of events” is something as well. Can’t figure out the book cover at all. But otoh it’s not common for folks to go to China so that makes me lean toward Japan. But Chinese. I pick Chinese.

I was multi tasking and got the end of the video wondering... wait did he do a whole video on what his next language is but not tell us? Nah.. I'll watch it again.. damn.

Do you have plans for a preemptive review of Storylearning before the sale is over? The full course is $300, the $100 is just for beginner section. Spending $300 dollar on a hunch is not a good idea.

"Guess where" Since the Italian flag momentarily changed to the Mexican flag (assuming that's a hint), I'm guessing the event is in Mexico and you're learning Latin American Spanish. If so, welcome! I'm learning that too.

I've decided only to learn languages that I know someone who speaks them in real life. I used to learn whatever language I fancied, eg. Hebrew, but then it dawned on me that I don't actually know anyone who speaks Hebrew. What I do instead now is learn the languages of my colleagues, which at the moment is Bulgarian, Hindi and Romanian, and it works much much better.

I can't see a whole load of Japanese books suddenly appearing in a book fair, and it might be tricky for you to spot that there was among them a translation of an English book you had always wanted to read. So I'm guessing Spanish, as it is usually easy to guess the name of the original book from the Spanish title, if you can also see the author's name and you know what books he, she or they had written. Oh, and that 'You are alone' gag is genius.

Cliffhanger! Ugh! Please tell us before Olly's sale ends! My guess Turkish

Scotland?

Did you tell us why you decided not to continue with French? Or did you reach your desired level

Haha, that's the video you told me about

I will guess Turkish. Turkish seems like an underated language that will be hard to guess. Also Turkish is surprisingly big.

3:51 As a student, that hurt.

Vatican state?🤨

I used this method too. After duolingo I was always speaking my boss about purple turtles walking along noisy rivers and horses with red heads in Russian. Now instead I'm telling him stories about Hansel and Gretel and the 7 dwarfs. He was absolutely flabbergasted! Got the promotion, and I no plan to go ahead with A2!

I was about to swear at the end of this video, but I stopped myself and had a think. Hmm... (me thinking) Latin reference. But you mentioned a lot of south-east European languages at the top of the video. So my best guess is Romanian. While I'm here, I should note that it's your fault that I have been dabbling with French, Korean and Ukrainian this year on top of my main language effort (such as it is) with German. So thanks for that, it's been a lot of fun!

Lol this is so good 😂👏👏👏

Great video as always Days of ... 'n' Swedish

I want to be this successful

How many books did you bring home from the Book Fair? More importantly what kind of books did you select? Lots of cheap books in Spanish for sale online but which ones to get and which are not worth the postage; that is a never ending struggle.

Such a good channel

Your son is competing at the Rubik’s cube world championships in Seoul, so the language is Korean!

If the music gives a clue, It should be Italy...

I think we can definitely rule Russian out. We can also rule French out and probably Turkish too. Since the Latin is a German style font, I'm going to guess Germany. Then there's the Adidas jacket while you are holding the obscured book.

I translated the last phrase... Sad it's not Turkish... But I guess it's fortuitous for your channel.

My guess is Bangkok, Thailand!

I find Duolingo works but very slowly

Is that a cheeky unlazyway clip at 1:50?

Dammit I was hoping Korean because my son is going to the Seoul competition as well (I’m taking him) and I’m feverishly trying to learn a little Korean. But I don’t know how to find a “part 2” video from 7 months ago to confirm…🤦🏽‍♀️

Uzbek? 😉 Or Turkish? Hard to tell.

If I ever get to this level of Japanese, I plan to use it to learn Korean.

Hmm given the clue at the end and looking at the StoryLearning courses available, I'm gonna guess you're learning Latin, and you're going to the Vatican city!

The Turkish dialogue=Girl: What are you doing? Mihran will learn about that and call, what's it to you? Guy: This inheritance thing, for all of us...(the speech is cut from there)

It’s a shame it wasn’t a competition in Sweden. After all those years learning you’ve got to come to Sweden at some point!

Diēs gallicae sueciaeque linguarum (unless someone with better Latin wants to correct me)

I’m not old to the channel but I’ve already seen every one of your videos, hhh. So I guess I’m somewhere in the middle :)

OMG! You're going to compete in Tijuana.

Days of Dutch 'n' Swedish!?

On a serious note now: I think it will be German, Italian, Czech or Polish. 99,9% sure it is a European language.

I am voting German. It's not Japanese. The book is all wrong for that. :)

Is it Turkey? It can't be because that would be too weird, I recently started dabbling in Turkish. ahaha

I change my mind.. the flag change at 4:03 to the Mexican flag makes me think it's Spanish. Spanish isn't big in Australia, which fits the book fair narrative. But it's got tons of content which I think is what you want. Also, it seems likely you could go to Mexico or another Spanish speaking country for a competition. I don't think you would have mentioned Turkish that much. No signs of Finnish. And I have a feeling it's not Mandarin. Spanish I guess. Please release the next part and free me from the suspense!