NOT A POLYGLOT 

Hey guys - it's not about how many languages you speak, rather about what you learn along the way. What are some things that you are hoping to improve in 2020?

French girl screaming hysterically: "Help! I need to go to the hospital!!!" RU-vid Polyglot: "Let's eat a lot together"

So happy there is a language enthusiast that didn’t grow up with multiple languages as is the case for most of us in the community. It’s fresh and l hope this can motivate others in your position.

I couldnt stress that out more, those “i speak 20 languages” polyglots are very much annoying Specially because they give people the false impression that this is achievable quickly. I would only consider saying “I speak this x language” if i were at least a b2 level. Otherwise, you DONT speak the language. Some exceptions such as Luca the polyglot, who has been learning for several years and dedicates his inteire life for it. Love your videos man, keep em going

I'm in the same position as you: I'm not a polyglot, I just had to learn a couple of languages at school and for my business (English and French) and I developed an interest for languages that led me to learn a couple more (I'm studying German, at the moment). Your RU-vid channel is a breath of fresh air in a world of difficult challenges (try Japanese, Chiese or Korean...) and unreacheable gurus. You are a lovely travel companion for many of us. Thanks for being here.

Let me just tell you - From all the language leaning channels I love yours the most cause you say it like it is and don't sugarcoat language learning. I know how hard learning a new language can be cause I spent 2 years on German and still ended up with a rather low and demotivating level of understanding it. I'm Bulgarian and leaning English to a C2 level took me literally 15 years ( started at 4 ) so I will never believe a person can become proficient in 3 months lol The struggle continues.

I totally agree. I actually call myself an emotional learner. Because of how stress or stressful people slows down my studying. I mediate now as a part of my studying process.

This is so refreshing. Finally someone not claiming to learn 12 languages in one summer or to be able to speak 1 language usefully in a week. It's so ostentatious and misleading, and I'd bet those people will forget 90% of it just as quickly as they learned it.

Yes! I’m so for this movement of more RU-vidrs sharing their journeys rather than “polyglots” telling you how they did it. I think I’m going to start vlogging my Spanish learning journey

Great vid. I am a language learner but also not a Polyglot. I never liked those videos of people claiming to speak 10 languages but they say two sentences. Your channel is quite refreshing, keep it up!

Je viens de découvrir ta chaîne, j’apprécie beaucoup ton honnêteté et ta transparence ! Merci beaucoup de partager tes pensées et tes méthodes !

I find it really difficult to say "I think I'm fluent in this language" - Even in English I make stupid mistakes all the time (more often then not re-reading takes care of that - but still: the vast majority of native speakers wouldn't make those mistakes) - and yet here I am using more English than German (my native language) in my everyday and professional/academic life. So to gauge my own progress I completely ommitted the words "fluent", "level", "proficient" and "good". I also try to not use them when others ask me about my progress with a language (if the question in a questionnaire is how proficient I am and the choices are based on the CEFR then, well, can't do anything about that). Instead, I like to evaluate myself and my skills with a set of categories: (1) How much do I struggle reading a) fiction, recipes, social media b) non-fiction, newspapers, research articles c) subtitles, real-time chats (2) How much do I struggle listening to a) cooking shows, vloggers etc. b) news and speeches c) podcasts, discussions, tv-shows, audio-books etc. c) live discussions with many people, random audio mid sentence (3) How much do I struggle writing a) a comment on e.g. youtube b) a summary / comment / mini-essay / opinion on a movie, discussion point etc. c) in a real time-chat with many participants (4) How much do I struggle with speaking when a) reading out loud b) giving short replies to questions c) formulating my opinion or participating in a discussion (=being given the floor) ( d) throw in a comment in a discussion (=taking the floor) (5) How often do I find myself thinking in the target language by accident? How often do I know what a word/sentence in the target language means but don't actually know the dictionary/text-book translation?

My native language is Portuguese.right now im trying to learn italian even tho it's a relatively similar language it's taken me quite a while to learn.great video.

Although I study multiple languages and have been for quite some time, I have to say I find your channel very refreshing, many people feel the need to 'catch up' so to speak, comparing themselves, when it's definitely no race :) Decided to not be a lurker as this video deserves a thumbs up! I believe you'll have many subscribers in no time!

Wow. Thanks so much for this. I have never commented on a video like this, but I just found this video and your video about "How to learn a language for real". These have been the most useful language learning videos I have ever watched (and I've watched a lot). Your point about having task based goals was so helpful- just yesterday I was still sitting with the lofty and vague goal of "I will be conversational in French by August". Now I'm going to put some thought into task based goals like making a recording of myself every fortnight and a diary entry every day. And the fact that you started learning your second language at 30- that is so encouraging, because I'm 23 and have only just really got into language learning. I've been feeling quite discouraged by hearing how young other successful language learners were when they began. So thank you so much for sharing! Subscribed!

Meh, everything comes down to your personal goals and how high your standards are. I personally only claim to know a language when I have at least a solid B1 in that language, I think that's fair. In general, it is a bit "toxic" to compare each others' language abilities, but I agree that we should call out those polyglot wannabes who care more about self-promotion than language learning.

Yoooo, shout outs to my man Matt vs Japan. I found him recently, and I really like how he's extremely real about the language learning process, and only wants to help people learn. I'm a Japanese-learner, so obviously anything about language learning interests me. So I subscribed! Hope you have a great day

I really appreciate your honesty. I’m an A2 Spanish-speaker and I’m just hoping I can get to B2 by this time next year (using a combination of Pimsleur, Busuu, Flashcards and random media). At some point in the next five years, I would love to get French under my belt, as well. This video has given me inspiration because you make language-learning feel the way it feels to me; it’s a lifelong process of refinement. It’s a disservice to aspirational viewers to claim to have become fluent in a few short months. Thank you all the way from Chicago!

I have just discovered your channel and really appreciate this message. I am a very weak language learner, with hardly any natural ability, but do struggle along and make eventual progress. Despite these many limitations, I have learned a few things that might help out others, and have tried to share some of them in the past. It is delightful to hear somebody else with an equally well grounded position.

Recently subscribed! Looking forward to watching the rest of your videos. I've been "learning" Greek for about a year and a half but only more intensively the past month. Definitely my test run for language learning.

It's good that you're honest about your experience.

I can’t thank you enough for giving me the confidence I needed, so very badly to try again for the 100th time to learn German, ty ty ty 🤗 I’m almost 50 and up until this point, I really thought I wasn’t smart enough to learn another language, as soooo many channels and courses are always promising that you can learn a language in a week, I never could, so felt so dumb, but you have explained exactly what I needed to hear to get me started again 😊 I really can’t thank you enough, love your channel 🥰🙏

I want to reach a high level in my target languages too. Great video! 🤓

Thank you for making this video. I feel like getting your systems in place and actually bringing yourself into a position which enables you to continuously work on something is necessary and not talked about enough in the language learning discourse. Last year, I stumbled upon Refold and started imemrsing in French, after a few weeks I lost motivation. I'm back and currently studying regularly. Even though I'm still at the start, I've noticed that everything becomes easier once you have specific goals and motivations and above all, once you're able to take better care of your mental and physical health.

I love your channel, it's so honest! I'm a native spanish speaker that knows english (I work for an american company), and I'm trying to learn french right now. Thank you for making these videos, your channel should (AND WILL!) have more views!!! Stay consistent!!

I’ve just recently stumbled upon your channel and I really love how honest you are about language learning experience. I’ve been watching a bunch of polyglot videos and I would get this feeling that they’re only true to some extent. They were definitely inspirational at first until I realized that either I simply wasn’t talented enough or my criteria for ‘speaking a language’ was a bit different. I started learning English at school about 20 years ago and my level is still far from perfection because I’ve never been to an English speaking country and I rarely get to talk to a native speaker. Then I started learning German and I can speak it on a simple level, I also got into Japanese and I talk like a small child rn, and all of that definitely doesn’t make me a polyglot. Of course, there are people who are truly fluent in several languages but I can hardly imagine their journey and the amount of time it took. Keeping your goals and motivation in check is also an issue. And if defining a reason for speaking English is simple because you can’t do without it in the modern world, with the other languages you have to really think hard. I still have no idea why I need German and Japanese, I just like the idea of speaking them. Idk maybe that’s the problem that slows me down in my studies or it’s just that I don’t know how to study more efficiently. Sometimes I also get the feeling that polyglots spend all of their waking hours studying languages XD Anyways, thank you for sharing your thoughts, definitely subscribing to your channel!

Thank you so much for being real! I saw your last video about quitting French and I felt so relieved to not to be alone. I felt like a failure after moving to France and still struggling with the language and pronunciation, I thought I knew everything I needed to know about French and I was sooo wrong. Learning languages is like a rollercoaster for me, sometimes I'm loving it and sometimes I don't even want to hear a word in my TL, so after watching RU-vid videos like "I learnt French in one week" "How to speak 7 languages" I felt so discouraged. So thank you for being honest and keep motivating people around you!

I loved this video. I also really value being able to speak a language to a high level instead of knowing 5 or 6 at a very basic level. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but it was great to see a video talk about that.

I love your channel because you are relatable and realistic. I don't need advice from language geniuses. I need advice from someone who has similar challenges to me. Thank you so much. And now I need to go watch some French videos...

This is a great video I would love to see a break down of your language learning schedule

I appreciate your focus on figuring out what's needed to speak languages reallllly well rather than knowing a bunch of phrases and hand gestures and filler words in a bunch of different languages. That's what I'm going for too

The honesty is so refreshing, as usual.

Polyglots say that learning a language is useful, fast, and easy. But I wonder if culture, make friends, knowledge, understand music lyrics and films are enough to bother learning a language or if you still can do all this without knowing the language at all. What they don't tell you is that learning any language is hard and takes a lot of effort and time, let alone being a polyglot, which becomes quite an addicting idea after listening to them. What most often forget is that the language has to be incorporated into the daily routine consistently, and it's a lifelong process that takes you years to master it. Before deciding what you want to study, you might consider the efforts and benefits from it, your plans to live in the country or doing business with them, and so on. You're bound to be demotivated sooner or later if you don't have reasonable reasons in the first place. In short, be realistic, choose two or three languages tops, and go for it. The most important thing is to know that you're learning something you're gonna use and that makes you happy.

I respect your positive attitude and humility. Very humble.

Simple answer: being A1 level doesn't mean you "speak that language"

Thank you so much for this video! I consider myself just like you.. now I try to concentrate in one language at the time. coz I was frustrated for so long trying to study 3 languages at the same time, and on top of it, those are Russian, German, and Chinese. What it made me improved was the luck I had of having the chance of living in the countries of these languages. So, I can say by now I speak a really decent Russian, I would say B2 with mistakes.. German C1.1 but it took me so much time, frustration and hard working to reach these levels and I don’t feel I’m fluent enough, in terms of I what I consider being a fluent in a foreign language. And well.. my chinese has dropped down by the fact that I’ve been focused on my German and practicing my Russian as well. Honestly I find your channel super motivational because you say the true story, thoughts, and journey of what it’s learn a foreign language like.. I wish you all the best on your learning journey.

It's actually very relaxing to listen to you sharing your experience. When I started watching language learning videos on RU-vid I felt really motivated, until I noticed it could also have adverse effects on how much I enjoyed actually learning the language (and it seems you may have been a victim of that as well). Don't get me wrong I still use youtube a lot for language learning but you need to be careful about how you approach it. My experience is similar to yours: I started getting into language learning at 30 (Japanese - difficult enough to not even think about another one!), and it had been almost 10 years since the last time I actively studied a language (English). After 2 years I'm quite happy where I'm at, but I know I could easily feel like I didn't do enough and I didn't study the right way and I should have reached this level much faster and blablabla, if I were to focus on these thoughts and to compare myself to youtube polyglots. When I started japanese I thought to myself "it's gonna be at least a 10 year journey to reach a point where I feel a real sense of achievement", and I'm sticking to that. Actually if you compare yourself to real life people with day jobs learning the language on the limited free time they have, you will see that you're making a ton of progress. Anyway, thanks for your honesty and stay motivated!

I've seen this video a couple of times before, but I just wanna say this video has one of my favorite thumbnails. I smile every time it pops up on my feed.

I love this channel!

I tried learning french and spanish for years and years and I got so frustrated. I could barely communicate in Spanish even in Mexico. Started learning norwegian and I feel refreshed. I want to learn swedish after getting to decent level of norwegian. Mastering a language and being able to speak about politics and philosophy in it is better being able to order some tacos in 3 languages.

Hi, I just wanted to let you know how much of an inspiration you have been to my journey of learning languages. I'm a Spanish native speaker so I often watch English speakers RU-vidrs for practice my second language. Lately, I got really interested in learning more languages so I started watching RU-vidrs that claimed to have learned a language in 2, 3, 6 months and so on, or the ones that explain their plan for studying 12 languages in 2020 (are they even humans? Lol). So I started to get really stressed thinking about my A1 french that I reached in 6 months and how I wasn't good enough for this... and then I found your channel and I basically binge-watched all your videos regarding language learning and man just a huge THANK YOU, you help me focus in my own progress rather than thinking how everyone else is doing. Keep the good content, you deserve way more subscribers, can't wait to see your channel grow :)

Your opinion about those “polyglots” reflects exactly what I thing about it. I don’t really get why people would learn 6-7 languages besides their native tongue. I would rather learn 3-4 (as an example) languages and I would try use my time to bring them to perfection. I think that’s way cooler and way more useful.

Great points. It takes many years to learn multiple languages. Keep going forward :)

Honestly, I choose your channel over any polyglot any day. Maybe it's because I don't want to be a polyglot myself, my life goal is to become fluent in both Welsh and Italian. Welsh because simply, I am Welsh and I'm very proud of it. And Italian because I adore the Italian culture, and I recently found out I have Italian in my blood. So that's my motivation. But beside that, I honestly have a lot of respect for you and your videos because you are very genuine, fair, and you have a lot of knowledge on this subject. That in itself has brought me back to your videos and I'm sure that is the same for everyone else too! Basically, I feel like you are just like all of us, we are all on the same journey with our languages, no matter what stage we're at, you make us feel like we're all equal. So keep being you buddy and keep making great content! Much love :)

Well, I do think you are a successful language learner, as you can communicate your ideas both in Swedish and in French. I used to say that I'm not good enough in English, although I've been studying it for quite a long time. Then I realized all the amazing things I can already do in this language (like following your channel, talking to my friends from abroad, performing tasks in English at my job). The thought of "I'm not good enough" isn't healthy. Congratulations from Brazil!

Good work man! Keep it up!

I am on your same line. I speak English but I am trying to master it at an high level. Of course my primary interest is Estonian because I live here (currently I am attending B2 classes). Meanwhile for my pleasure I'm into the conversational japanese and arabic (but those are just during relaxing time very causally through Busuu).

Thank you for pointing this out. You've earned my subscription. I had one year anniversary of studying spanish last month and realized that youtube polyglots just wants to monetize their business selling the idea of an asap recipe. Btw im swedish and your swedish is very good!

I refuse to say I speak a language until I know it fluently, or at least to a conversational level. I get annoyed with all the people saying "I speak 10 languages", but then that can barely say anything in either of them.

Thanks for being real. Long story short, I studied French in school (America) for 5 years, and would have rather spent that time learning to tolerate walking on hot coal. 17 years later (September 2019) I decided to return to French. Your channel is why. I watched your French speaking video and your honesty with your struggles connected. Thanks for not being a polyglot.

Feeling this video. I'm actually a disciple I guess you could say of Matt's, I've followed his videos as consistently as I can, with frequent lapses in discipline. and I love watching how you saw Matt's incredible results and method and made some adjustments to your own study based on it, so many people don't even hear the MIA/AJATT ideas out but you're a genuinely driven guy who wants a result and is willing to do what it takes to get it, which is pretty rare in youtube language learning, so I've subbed.

I subscribed because of this video. I really appreciate your openness and honestness as far as how polyglots are and how the fake polyglots act. I definitely appreciate your truthfulness and realness. I'm looking forward to your future content

this video was recommendet for me and i like your thoughts. just grounded. it's true, sometimes one should come back to the roots and not try everything at once and try to be lindie or steve, as you say... :)

Solid reality check! Thank you!

That's so true !

You can learn the basics of any language and a couple of the most important vocabulary in two weeks with little more than an hour daily. Why do I know? Because I “learned” Italian while on vacation in Italy for two weeks during the siesta hours. I do not speak Italian, but it’s enough to order a drink and to pull a trick at a party. Really learning a language is way harder and needs a tone of commitment!

Love you Lamont~!

Jag ville bara säga att jag älskar din kanal! Om du skulle vilja ha hjälp med svenska får du gärna höra av dig☺️☺️

I consider myself a polyglot, my mother tongue is portuguese. I'm C1 in english., B2 in japanese (Kanji is very hard so yeah), and B2 in spanish. Now I'm learning italian and french! :)

I like your attitude!

Really appreciate your attitude here, I've learnt two languages to a fairly high level before and when I decided to pick another back up after dropping it some time ago I ended up watching language learning videos on here - it's very easy to feel inadequate pretty quickly when everyone who makes the videos seems to have "learnt" 10+ languages and it felt like this is what you have to do to be a real language enthusiast. For me personally I think it's more rewarding to continue to progress in the ones I've learnt already to get as good as I can, although there are a couple of languages I'd like to learn to a more basic level because I think it could be useful, but I'm done with dabbling in languages or having a list of ones to learn next when I know that's not realistic for me! I'll probably never be a polyglot and that's ok! (Although this has meant accepting that I won't be learning Swedish after all, which despite having no real use for I am intrigued by!) keep doing what you do :)

Amen! You say what I think watching other youtubers, but it's stuff I wouldn't expected to get views. I thought you had to frame it the way they do to get people's attention.

Nice vid man. I'm from Melbourne, started learning my first foreign language this year at 27yo. Channels like yours are way more relatable than many of the polyglot channels out there which is why you have such a fan-base already. Another example to highlight your point is like a beginner athlete taking advice from an olympic champion. Pro athletes are SO FAR AHEAD that can't even relate to the struggles of the beginner. I've heard polyglots dismiss common beginner questios (such as "how do i retain new words better?" etc) with "oh it's not that hard". And many of the time, these guys learned 2-3 languages before they were teenagers and literally don't understand the challenges that monoglot adults have to face in order to improve. It's also a big misconception that someone has to be elite to share wisdom or value. Although you "only" know two foreign languages and although you've "only" been studying for 3 years, you have plenty of wisdom and value to deliver. So thanks for your channel my dude, please keep posting regularly.

(not all)Polyglot youtubers be like: "LoOok At Me IaM A PoLyGlOt, Ic cAn SaY HeLlO iN 20 DiFfErEnT LangUaGeS"

Spanish and English are my main languages from childhood. I've been learning Portuguese and french for a while now. I plan on learning arabic because i'm passionate for it and know the alphabet and travel basics. For me is basically "adopting" a language for life. I closed the door for any other languages, because with these five i have a lot to learn, live and sing. I am a singer and sing in those languages. I dont want to be a youtube polyglot, the reality is i'll learn throughout the years. My goal is to function in the five languages by the time i turn 40 (I'm 20). I have a lot of time! But especially arabic will take me my whole life.

I've learned French for almost seven years (school included, so most of this time wouldn't really count as full dedicated learning) and Italian for about two years, and I felt pretty comfortable and fluent in both of them, and was 'ready to move on to the next language', until I decided to read more of some deeper french and italian literature and and write my own texts, I realized how much vocab is still missing. For a moment I was very frustrated, because I thought I had a good level of fluency, but I accepted it and now I continue learning and improving to reach a much higher level :) Your videos help keeping it real!

Good video! Ive studied languages but I'm not that one who learns a language in 3 months..

When I was in university I thought I spoke such good French... until I actually moved to France had had to speak to French people all the time. I thought my Spanish was really solid, until I moved to Spain and actually had to try to understand Spanish being spoken by Spanish people. It took me yeeeeaaaaars of living in the countries and struggling to communicate at times before I got “very fluent”. That’s what it takes. I don’t even know why someone would want to be fluent in 10+ languages. The learning process is supposed to be savored and done carefully, not something done in a rush in order to get views on RU-vid videos.

I'm sick of those click-bait "polyglot" youtubers :') "I LEARNED FRENCH IN 1 DAY" like... bye.

Thank you for your honesty and authenticity! I get annoyed with those popular-pretend polyglots here on RU-vid. I do believe there are true polyglots but they are rare. These popular RU-vidrs are just giving false hope with their prepared videos.

Your honesty. I like it.

Strongly agree on MattvsJapan as well, its beautiful!

You are very cool. I have english since 11 years at school and always been very bad. I just started to like languages a few monts ago. How I know a lot of wonderful people they have another native language. I want to learn more and start spanish now. I don't want to be like a native. My gool is to be able du understand the most, read normal difficold stuff and can express myself, even if I make misstakes. (Like in this text I guess xD)

You don't have to be a polyglot to help us learn languages. You have given a lot of encouragement to me, especially to persist in learning a couple of languag es. Marco beaucoup.

Ever heard of Language transfer? Would love to see a review on the app or even an interview with Mihalis the creator of it.

Starting at the age of 30 is no problem. I only started learning languages at 29, and now speak Spanish well enough that I've taught classes to natives in Mexico and Chile, and done television interviews. I also speak French and Portuguese at a B2 and B1 level respectively. I don't go crazy with study, either, just a little bit of each language each and every day.

He who has a why can bear any how. I wanted to learn french because I live in bilingual Belgium and I wanted to be able to understand the french part, and for more work opportunities. After studying it on and off and back on again for a couple of years, I’ve been able to get a job where I need to speak french a couple of times per week at least. This has completely lit a fire under my my ass and now I want to be fluent more than ever just to avoid embarrassment lol

Your view is like a breath of fresh air

I want to be a reservist polyglot. Currently I can converse in Spanish and English at a moment's notice. Since I tend to forget most vocab and then the grammar because I never use the languages I learn, I just revise them once and a while to keep the grammar up. I can confidently revive my Portuguese and Italian to conversational level within 10 days to mobilise my rusty skills.

2:57 Almost perfect! "Ich bin immer bereit, Deutsch zu reden" Edit: great video by the way :)

This is a good video.Tto give an example I've been studying russian quite intensively every day for three months. I have a much more solid base with Bulgarian having lived there(my level in Bulgarian could charitably have been called B1 when I left, but I haven't practiced it for a few months so my vocab has gone to shit). Also, there are a few useful structural similarities and phrases that you can, so to speak, transfer from Bulgarian to Russian. So I can express myself in those and other phrases and structures I've learned quite well. But there's no way, as you say, if confronted with an ordinary Russian speaker who doesn't have any english, my vocabulary would be big enough to meaningfully talk about most things. We could communicate effectively, but not because of my Russian ability - more because I would be able to get the gist from my experience with slavic languages + a bit of Russian. I like what you say about appearing to speak another language, because I think ppl get v. excited when they see that someone can speak in a certain way and pull of some idiomatic and interesting, perhaps even complex, phrases. However, said person might not be able to follow a slightly non-standard conversation in the same way. The most important thing is to praise all people who participate in language learning, even if they can't seem to make any progress or they're struggling, and not hold up anyone as an idol or a god or get sucked in by false promises.

Great video just one thing you said didn't quite align my own experience. I found language learning got easier as I got deeper into the language but you said it gets harder. What did you find became more difficult exactly? 🤔

I had an experience like you described. I was at 13-14 fluent in French as I lived in Quebec, Canada. Jump forward 10 years later and living in the UK, my boss has a French footballer asking for someone that speaks French, he says " Nando does!" I froze on the spot 🤣.

Here’s the problem I’m facing. I’m learning Samoan, there is very few resources that can be efficient for self study, I’m blessed to have a native speaker in my family through my wife but there isn’t ever any very useful “programs” or teachers online for the language it just isnt available from what I’ve found. Samoan isn’t on the “difficulty scale” on the language learning scale either

can u make a comparison between Busuu and Babbel?

This is so commonsense. Thanks.

I'm from Guatemala, as of May 2020 I've been studying two languages which are English (obviously) and Russian and even though I've gotten fairly good at them I always felt as if I just wasn't good enough. Why? The answer is quite simple, sometimes I falter in my languages and make some errors from time to time despite having been studying for years by now, but even worse is that I constantly watched all those people claiming to be polyglots on the internet. I sincerely felt bad but thanks to your video I understand that the most important thing is to be understood and be functional even if some mistakes let themselves be known from time to time. Thanks for the motivation, good luck.

You're a good person.

when he becomes an actual polyglot that understands things well. Days of French ‘n’ Swedish ‘n’ Chinese ‘n’ Japanese ‘n’ Spanish ‘n’ Thai

One thing I am trying to decide is I get to go to study aboard in Russia in my junior or senior year of college and I am a sophomore right now. I want to have a solid base in the language about B1 and I am not sure how long it will take too reach it. I also have been learning Czech past 8 months and in January put Czech aside to start french and now I am in love with french and want to keep studying it but I know I have to start Russian soon, so I am not sure if I should stop my french now and go right on to Russian. Or wait until I have three months under my belt in french to move then to Russian. Once I come back from studying aboard in Russia I will then go back and refine my Czech and french up to b2. And hopefully have my Russian at C1 from studying aboard there. Thoughts?

whats the name of the second background song? its lit. anyway, love your content!

Me all happy that I was able to understand the absolute bare minimum amount of German that you spoke :D

Learning a language is like scaling a mountain at your own pace. Someone who has been rock climbing for decades obviously knows how to scale a mountain way faster than you do, but it doesn't really matter. If you work on your goal and your method of reaching that goal (study techniques etc.) regularly, you will succeed. It of course also means that you must put the work into it, I have an Australian friend who lives here in Sweden who talks about his desire to learn Swedish. I offered him some easy tips to learn vocabulary but after a few days, he just said that he didn't really have the energy to follow through. (which is understandable since everyone can speak English anyway).

Similar situation. I started studying languages 18 months ago at age 31. Studied Spanish 3 months and French 10 months. I would be helpful in French in the situation described in this video, but not Spanish. Possibly could help in Spanish if the hypothetical women in distress wrote her issues down. Written communication is always easier to understand.

I agree with you. In fact I made a video in Italian where I decried these so called hyper polyglots which you can watch if you speak Italian haha

It's like when u are struggling with a subject and when u ask ur teacher about it he explains it as if it were the most simple thing in the world because for him it is and u still don't have a clue of what he is talking about then a classmate of urs come over and explains it in simpler way bc he was struggling in the same thing a while back.

I already know 3 languages at 16 because I'm a kid of immigrants from Belarus in France and also I know English pretty well lol, so I think I'll know at least 5 languages in my life so it'll be cool I'll be a polyglot! 😎

I am just as impressed-if not more-with people who speak one foreign language extremely well as I am with someone who speaks 5 languages to a moderate degree. I mostly had to learn languages for reading (research). I did learn Spanish to B1, and I could give impromptu speeches and hold some conversations, but I was never satisfied with that. I struggle to speak Spanish and German. As one of my professors said, he can read complex theological texts in German, but he can’t order a cup of coffee. Similarly, I can do research in 3 or 4 foreign languages, but I am fluent in none of them. I’d rather be highly fluent in 1 or 2 of them.

Im not sure what it truely means to be a polyglot so i cant say that i want to be one but i do want to learn many, many languages. I know french (first language) and english(fluent) learning spanish since 2 and a half years. But i havent done much i was studying about 30 minutes per day on average. Even though im not yet fluent in spanish, i started german AND russian. It motivates me. And i have a feeling of urgency as if I needed to at least understand all those languages fast even though im not done with spanish yet. And even english i need to maintain a bit. But i am really motivated.

Why is there a Tony Robbins ad in the corner of my screen ?lolol But anyways, I love your channel because you're fucking real. Don't quit being yourself :)