Richard Simcott - Life in multiple languages [EN] - PG 2017 

Richard has a pure love for language,it's beautiful

Great talk from a great guy. On the other hand, there is poor coordination between cameras operating in the room.

Brilliant, absolutely the best presentation I've seen from PG so far. He is amazing. Hopefully I can see a live presentation one day.

This genius is such a very friendly and nice guy. May God bless him and all of us.

Love this guy! This was the man by whom I was inspired to study languages and establish it as my own personal favourite pastime. This was back in early 2012 when I had initially gotten into language learning and through looking for helpful tips to learn more effectively, I stumbled across Richard Simcott. He’s a language genius, no question there. I’m ever so thankful to him for it. Ok, I am not studying anywhere near as many languages as him but nonetheless, I have continued until this day and feel an enormous sense of fulfilment from it. If you see this message Richard I thank you wholeheartedly for your inspiration Sir. Many thanks and greetings from Scotland. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Good luck. 🇬🇧 Bonne chance. 🇫🇷 Viel Glück. 🇩🇪 Buena Suerte. 🇪🇸 Buona fortuna. 🇮🇹 حظ سعيد.🇸🇦

Richard always gets the largest audiences! I would love to go to the next one :-D

Great talk, but I have to say that the film editing is awful since they switch from one camera to the other just randomly and most of the time he makes references to things that are being shown on the screen the film editor didn't switch to the camera with the widest shoot, so you cannot know what is he referring to. that's too bad.

I really enjoyed the video. Would love to hear Richard speak in depth about raising a multilingual child. It seems he would have good, practical advice to share!

Richard is a great guy and he always inspires me to keep learning and never give up! I had the fortune of meeting him at an event in the UK two years ago. Unfortunately, I couldn't afford to go to the Polyglot Gathering in 2017. He was very friendly, approachable and easy to talk to and very encouraging and we had a short conversation in German after one of the talks.

I spoke to you (in English and perhaps some Russian, as I did speak Russian and small smidges of French and Finnish at this workshop) at the Iceland Workshop in Reykjavík, Iceland. I am hoping to attend a Polyglot Workshop in Athens, Greece and also watch the Spartathlon in Sparta, Greece, and speak about A2 Greek there. I have studied about 34 Languages and consider myself to be a Language Identifier which is just identifying all those languages and not actually speaking them which is much harder. I know you studied 50 languages and that is about 16 languages more than I have studied. I agree with you about wanting to speak all the 1,000+ languages of the World. I said only 1000+ because most of the 7,000 languages of the world only have just a few speakers. My biggest language interest is the Six Languages of Respublika Dagestan including Avarsky ( Avar in Avarsky - also Маг1арул мац1 ), Darginsky (Dargan mez in Dargwa), Kumiksky, Lakski, Lezginski, and Tabasaran which are the 6 written Languages of Dagestan other than the commonly spoken Language of Russian.

Next, conference, can you guys at least try to show what they are showing in their PowerPoint, so we can see, too, what they are talking about with lists, charts, etc? It's kinda annoying to hear them talking about something and then see from 3 miles away a chart and not know what it says!

Wish I spoke German so I could understand the joke about bribing your daughter! Excellent talk as always and very enjoyable from Richard!

Very inspiring, thanks Richard.

That is one beautiful person. Brillant mind!

I love this guy! His humour is so in tune with mine :DDDDDDD Apart from that he's a true life inspiration...

Wow, i wonder what it must be like to be his daughter. I wonder how old she is and how many languages she knows already!

This was very engaging. I wish we had the slides to go with it tho

At 7:45 you should have started in Sign Languages.

Very admirable young man !

Awesome talk !

This doesn't seem to me a Polyglot Gathering's Language Talk but, a Language Stand-up about how hard, and difficult is to pick up on languages, and how much money, and how long, and the entire lifetime you've got to invest to learn, and maintain those languages for the rest of your life.

Every day, more and more endothermic Individuals who were born in the breezy north come to realize the importance of language studies and life in multiple languages.

Shocking that you mention word-lengh in German as a ''game changer''.

Richard Simcott, do you have an insight to learn Chinese qian zi wen - 千字文 ?

The cool thing would be if the audience asked in their native language / other language and Richard answered in English :)

I wish I was his child

The most important thing in life is knowledge of foreign languages! Thanks to foreign languages you can realize all your dreams and realize your grandiose ambitions! I would like to recommend all the practices of Yuriy Ivantsiv ''Polyglot Notes. Practical tips for learning foreign language". This book will be an indispensable helper, a handbook for every person who studies a foreign language! This book contains invaluable tips, questions and answers, and solutions to problems faced by anyone who studies a foreign language! Knowledge is power! And knowledge of foreign languages is your power multiplied by many times! Success to all in self-development!

Anyone knows how old this guy Is?

The map at 2:04 is WAY out of whack

2:00 mercator projection? really?

When we get the new teleportation technologies things will be easier for great-super-transcendental-hyper-polyglots, or those who aspire to this level. ( 29 Languages translating to Dozenal: 25{12} languages ) This is when we solve the problem teleportation creates for the heart valves. reference { Andrew Basiago): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WWbYZocpUGI.html I met you at the Polyglot Conference in Reykjavik, Iceland. Yes, I know, Teleportation is pretty hard to believe, but I do believe it has been done.

Can anyone claim to have a monopoly or ownership of any language? Or a language should belong to whoever happen to learn it and to speak it well 😊??

he speaks great english lol

"Sweet shop"... I think you mean candy store, sir. Duly noted, let's move on. 😏

Pun after pan! BTW there is not a country according to UN called mashentonia. However, there is a territory in Greece named Makedonia where Alexander the Great was from. Also, there is the 'Former Yougoslavic Republic Of Skopje' (F.Y.R.S.) which is nothing but a product of the need of Tito to immerse culture to a bunch of anthropoid mammals! Other than that, you are good. Keep in mind that just because of, germanics invaded Italy that does not mean that Rome should be called "Romaville"!

Good video, but bad video editing

Ironically, he’s a pretty bad public speaker. No hate I can’t do it either just found it amusing😂

alopecia alert!!! fake beard