This Man Speaks 32 Different Languages

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Ioannis Ikonomou works for the European Commission as a translator. It's a prestigious position, and yet it still sells him short. You see, Ioannis speaks 32 living languages. He belongs to a very small and special group of people called hyperpolyglots who have the extraordinary ability to attain fluency in many different tongues. According to Ioannis, there's no special trick or easy way to become a hyperpolyglot, but the best way to start is to boldly put yourself out there and SPEAK.
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Комментарии : 6 тыс.

@cassmets8357 5 лет назад

when you speak british, american, australian and canadian

@aqilahsapian5094 5 лет назад

Add new Zealand

@rosewood3294 5 лет назад

It took me 30 seconds to realize that you can only speak one language.

@Ripouliei 4 года назад

And south african

@williamchen8698 4 года назад

@@Ripouliei .............u mean afrikaans/dutch/zulu/xhosa/khoisan/etc

@Ripouliei 4 года назад

@@williamchen8698 yes chill out man im not south afrikan so i dont know all that shit

@apulanta13 4 года назад

"Bonjour." "Your French is very good!" "Gracias."

@Greezy2000 4 года назад

Lol

@melissa9905 4 года назад

The return of Mr. Bean.....

@Phantom-pt2yx 4 года назад

@@melissa9905 lol true

@Tei_022 4 года назад

😂

@R4ttlehead666 4 года назад

Mr Bean reference? 🤣🤣🤣 love it

@Henry-wi7vj 4 года назад

The Duolingo bird is satisfied. His family will be spared.

@johanneswohler5476 4 года назад

Lmao

@Son_of_aesthetics 3 года назад

Funny😂😂😂

@saptirtv7608 3 года назад

Greek because he is from Greek?

@Aabajdjti 3 года назад

HE DOESNT KNOW HAWAIIAN SO HE SHALL BE PUNISHED

@Sammy-yf2sb 3 года назад

PLSS-

@szzzz-uu9fc 4 года назад

Him: "when I was 20 I had already learned 15 languages." Me, 18yo: *cries in native language and broken English*

@thewheekingrodent 4 года назад

Me, also 18yo: *Cries in English, the only language I can speak*

@jumpiestudios5265 4 года назад

I just turned 21, and am currently learning my third language.

@Matthew-fj6eu 3 года назад

@@jumpiestudios5265 Cool! I'm 21 too, what is your third language? Mine's German

@jumpiestudios5265 3 года назад

@@Matthew-fj6eu My first language is German, my second is English, I'm currently learning French. I'm keeping it European so far. It's easier to learn languages that are related.

@looseygoosey1349 3 года назад

me: Cries in English and broken Native Language

@KE_GB 5 лет назад

*DUOLINGO BIRD WANTS TO KNOW YOUR LOCATION*

@1998Danielon 4 года назад

hahahahaha nice one

@johni-m8944 4 года назад

He is the duolingo bird

@Angela-nd2ub 4 года назад

legends say that he is the only one to escape the duolingo owl

@louisgarneau15 4 года назад

*its an owl*

@chess4072 4 года назад

I started using Duolingo for Russian (and a bit of Korean) a few days ago. I'm scared to miss a day so thankfully i did my lessons today.

@bibin1836 6 лет назад

I said "Si" at a taco bell once

@augustinedaudu9203 5 лет назад

Oĺe!

@uxxxa5901 5 лет назад

Good for you!

@Son_of_aesthetics 5 лет назад

Lol

@averagejohnson3985 5 лет назад

You said if?

@ulisesr614 5 лет назад

It’s pronounced _Sí_ I’m going to have to ask you to leave. **escorts you out of Taco Bell**

@pepefrog4066 3 года назад

I was lucky enough to meet him in person when we visited Brussels with my university department, in October of 2019. A wonderful person, I had a brief discussion with him about dead languages (Latin, Anglo-Saxon etc.)

@kets4443 2 года назад

Did you talk to him in latin/old english

@branestron9521 2 года назад

Why should i believe someone named pepe frog(dead meme).

@tortoisepetforest3875 Год назад

Nice 😎

@goldflower6892 Год назад

@@branestron9521 Because why would someone make that up?

@iamapokerface8992 Месяц назад

@@goldflower6892 exactly but the point is why not? people make the most senseless lies

@yoshi_drinks_tea 4 года назад

The real question is... When he thinks, what language does the voice in his head speak in?

@Sassenhaim 4 года назад

He's glad he has no schizophrenia. Do you see that angry German guy arguing with that Frenchman 😂 Mean while the shrink doesn't understand a word of Mandarin he is saying 😝

@SUPERNOVA0360 4 года назад

@@Sassenhaim .

@MRxavo17 4 года назад

Usually you think in the dominant language at that moment

@SUPERNOVA0360 4 года назад

@Jonathan Williams Stfu

@britte848 4 года назад

I have learnt English and if I want to I can think in English! But sometimes if I want to speak Dutch again it is hard to think in Dutch🇳🇱😂

@nitsky123 4 года назад

Plot twist: He can't actually speak 32 languages and just memorized a few phrases for the video

@ariana-ll2yf 4 года назад

Lmao

@Geo-st4jv 4 года назад

Alot of the polyglot videos have people know like the most basic words in a language

@arka3334 4 года назад

@Adam THERIN yes but hes a translator

@jvg4423 4 года назад

Well his dutch was terrible to be honest

@georgesk77 4 года назад

Nope he is the translator of the EU sooo nope 😂 also a few months ago many greek channels were talking about him

@Mikiyam 4 года назад

*he is the assassin duolingo bird sends when you miss your lesson*

@nerdemojireal 4 года назад

“Oh shit i missed my lessons!..” w-wwait, _Why do I hear Boss music??_

@dragonofthekings663 4 года назад

Lol

@ackervilleax9413 4 года назад

Diarrhea **surprised pickachu**

@thebeanz6593 4 года назад

Id miss a million days of duo just to meet this legend

@Ty-mu7gl 4 года назад

Wtf is that username tho

@icerenecake. 4 года назад

Man: *Speaks 32 languages* Google translate: alright, our job is yours now

@sivvansharma3023 4 года назад

Moochi UvU Also google translate: the bread is hot-> *my breakfast red spot*

@dianas7429 4 года назад

Well Google translator is the WORST translator out there so everyone could take its job lmao

@icerenecake. 4 года назад

@@dianas7429 lol

@moisttowlette1247 2 года назад

Google translate is shit

@ii_MnBCT 2 года назад

@@moisttowlette1247 like you!

@ArnoBrecker 4 года назад

He reminds the duolingo owl to take his lessons

@UltraLightGuzza 2 года назад

Top notch banter 👌

@brayanguillen788 7 лет назад

google translator in human form.

@ComradeSouth 7 лет назад

Brayan Guillen but better

@Reddolphin-gu1uy 7 лет назад

But accurate.

@sempermalus2674 7 лет назад

But it's getting better over the time. A little scary.

@alexysese1437 7 лет назад

not even his final form...

@foolst0p 7 лет назад

Tommy De Filippo Lol so true

@sarahhh9776 7 лет назад

gotta admit im a little jealous lol

@Jade.n. 7 лет назад

his dutch was really bad though :/ sad to hear that

@asiyaalhaddad 7 лет назад

Jade Nanarjain I was just about to comment that. I didn't understand a word lol

@bovko1 7 лет назад

His pronunciation was horrible, but if you pay close attention what he says is actually gramatically correct.

@brandothepro8648 7 лет назад

sarah nasr iz

@KassidyGonzales 7 лет назад

I'm over here struggling to learn one language at school

@chris-yq2bm 4 года назад

What I learned: He has a husband and is gay.

@Mako-po2cc 4 года назад

Must be such an important thing for Arab people

@eAVnghelista 4 года назад

I don't give a fuck about his orientations. He is so smart. you must have -IQ to laugh about this

@Kanal7Indonesia 4 года назад

So what? You lame

@Roody_Patootie 4 года назад

And I'm proud of him as a member of the LGBTQ community I appreciate this

@greektrump5227 4 года назад

@@Roody_Patootie I'm proud of him since he's from my country.

@dineshmerchant294 4 года назад

"So, How many languages you can speak "Yes"

@dominiquesunio395 7 лет назад

Imagine him and his husband fighting over something, and he was there slurring 32 languages all mixed up, and his husband would be like, WTF!?

@zaurhasanov5458 7 лет назад

SUPER RAD husband??

@Tigerseye1 7 лет назад

SUPER RAD lol this comment has 32 likes

@YurimoHikashi 7 лет назад

Zaur Hasanov he's gay

@obamayomama8291 7 лет назад

Kryptix Gamer now 64

@FirewheelX 7 лет назад

No, he's not. His husband is.

@lasemonk9425 7 лет назад

Funny how everyone starts to say how one of his languages is kind of bad. His "..." was pretty bad, he didn't pronounce "..." properly. Like stfu, he speaks 32 languages, does he have to be 100% fluent in every one of them? Of the four languages I know, I understood everything he said, so I'd say that's already a good start. As long as people understand you, you speak the language. No need to be a poet to speak a language.

@user-sr6pq7dv8q 7 лет назад

xd lasermonkey its normal that you dont speak it fluently but his dutch sounds like fucking arabic to me couldnt understand it not good，not great not fantastic really bad wasnt even dutch

@nicolewan4465 7 лет назад

Yeah, but maybe at least understandable to natives? If natives are finding it hard to understand his Dutch and Mandarin, then can he really speak them?

@usmcvet78_54 7 лет назад

And I'll bet YOU do TO!

@ashtona2404 7 лет назад

USMCVET78 _ hey marine don't you have some crayons to eat?

@whateverangeltaken 7 лет назад

Maybe criticism didn't take anything away from him knowing 32 languages.

@jaspeariv 4 года назад

“yes sir he’s right there, the guy who ate the duolingo bird”

@subhanpatel4355 4 года назад

Imagine spending your entire life trying to master one language while this dude can speak 32

@shadysam7161 3 года назад

Quality over quantity, my boy.

@nah_taliab.6266 6 лет назад

he didn't even hesitate when saying Mandarin omg

@aurora7554 5 лет назад

Except for the fact that it really sounds robotic and weird. I had to slow down to understand what he's saying.

@zorka7889 5 лет назад

@@aurora7554 thats why he said it...

@bluamii191 4 года назад

It’s true tho haha

@littleblueorchid 4 года назад

I kinda expected it.

@louielumactud286 4 года назад

@@aurora7554 oh em gee. Yes. It doesnt sound natural

@GeeztJeez 4 года назад

I mean, he still can't speak Minecraft enchantments languange so...

@crapcantbeholy1389 4 года назад

Got 'em! Checkmate!

@deth9794 4 года назад

Fun fact: the official name of the alphabet is "The Standard Galactic Alphabet". And also, it's not a language, it's an alphabet.

@GeeztJeez 4 года назад

@@deth9794 I see, thank you professor

@MrHugox83 4 года назад

or can he?

@winterglue274 4 года назад

If you can’t read it you are useless

@Thrawnrz 2 года назад

"If you speak to a person in a language they understand, it goes to their brain. If you speak to a person in their own language, it goes to their heart."

@Sassenhaim 4 года назад

Speaks polish with his husband is what surprised me the most. Because it's still a bit daring in Poland to be openly gay, Because of religious beliefs.😔 I support free people, who are who they choose to be👍🏻❤️

@kennyPAGC 4 года назад

Also if I'm not mistaken in Greece they're pretty traditional and there's certain degree of homofobia in parts of the population. So really surprising having a Polish and Greek gay couple. Well, good for them.

@5904454 3 года назад

He did not CHOOSE who he wanted to be. He is just who he really is.

@potatohamstr6869 6 лет назад

Does that mean he can watch anime without subs?! Damn I'm jealous

@jerry6463 6 лет назад

anime is in japanese...

@TensyWasTaken 6 лет назад

Ovillo Ronald idc I wait for subs I like to read

@reinhard4348 6 лет назад

He said 32 language , japanese could be one of them

@remainingthoughts1448 6 лет назад

I was thinking about that too

@maddymaddy3965 6 лет назад

Anime is in Japanese not mandarin, china produces something like...Xi Yang Yang, search that up on google, it's a goat

@th1rt3 7 лет назад

I can speak 5: English, Canadian, American, Australian and New Zealand. I'm so talented I know😂😂

@link2271 7 лет назад

Holly Wilkins Canadian's speak English and French. You should know French then

@kerfuffle5722 7 лет назад

I'm a French-Canadian and I don't speak French. I'm actually learning both Greek and sign language, and how to write and read Braille.

@link2271 7 лет назад

I'm learning Italian and Russian

@HitlerRants 7 лет назад

French is literally a prerequisite in Canada. Not necessary in like BC but like if you are on Ontario you know whats up.

@darrellwhiten-boone4308 7 лет назад

Holly Wilkins I can speak English Spanish Russian French and that's it

@Ramon314 4 года назад

I am Dutch and I can't understand anything of what that guy is saying in "Dutch"

@princerobertojoao6951 4 года назад

😂

@koningbielel4807 3 года назад

Ik leef mijn leven in meerdere spraken, meerdere talen, niet maar een. Zoiets

@randysantana6147 3 года назад

Hahahaha same, I thought wtf is this.. Een dialect uit de achterhoek?

@Leafeon-gd5en 3 года назад

@@randysantana6147 must be his accent then

@koensmedema247 3 года назад

Hahaha yes i had that too, I couldn’t understand any words he prenounced

@danielliew8819 Год назад

You have inspired me to learn more languages. Thank you sir!

@michaelarone2937 7 лет назад

I noticed he spoke very slowly in Chinese, as I'm sure he wanted to get the tones correct. The hard part about Mandarin is not the learning, but speaking to peoples from all over China who speak mandarin with different accents and intonations.

@camiblutube7116 6 лет назад

Da Long Finally, someone said this! I only speak English, but I kinda figured that it was more to these languages that meets the eye!

@soomiewleng5227 6 лет назад

对呀

@no2deh3rman 6 лет назад

Very true. In my country also, all of our states have different languages and cultures. Even within states there are different accents and dialects.

@ArtisticMX7 6 лет назад

Da Long billions of people with accents and intonations

@no2deh3rman 6 лет назад

Awesome! China is a big country so I would imagine the differences of dialects throughout your country.

@iReppoGames 7 лет назад

The problem with learning so many languages is that you miss some small nuances and pronunciations that makes you noticeably different from the actual native speakers. Still impressive as fuck, though

@juanaguilera9121 7 лет назад

I'm from Spain, and when I heard him speak... dude he speaks it perfectly, just amazing.

@ms.mittenz 7 лет назад

Juan Aguilera his Spanish was good. his Dutch on the other hand did not sound like Dutch at all... guessing some accents are easier then others

@kotoriimbued2340 7 лет назад

Yes, true, his french was not that good on the authentic accent side (me being a native speaker), but you know.... its 32 languages

@iReppoGames 7 лет назад

Yeah I'm french too and it just sounds a bit off in the way he pronounces stuff

@legorickdeckard229 7 лет назад

Ayla Soares from what i've noticed greek and spainard spanish have pretty much the same sounds and have very similar accents, so it must be easier for him.

@Piixyurii 4 года назад

This is the man my dad wants me to be for no reason

@johnsherfey3675 4 года назад

This is what I want you to be for no reason. I believe you can do It! Also, I'm not your dad sorry kid.

@vadiks20032 2 года назад

don't be the one somebody wants you to be. be the one who you want to be you can even be a serial murderer if thats what you like doing

@omovitruviano Год назад

Love his by the way coming out between one language and an another.

@funsizedfireball 6 лет назад

jesus christ dis dude speaks 32 languages while im here still trying to learn english (which is my first language)

@c0stas9 5 лет назад

lmao

@YaBoiManraj 5 лет назад

I know 3 languages

@CaptainNoch 5 лет назад

I know three languages, four if I had not given up learning Mandarin. Though, I am now attempting a fourth language, Japanese.

@SnekNyx 5 лет назад

@@CaptainNoch i know 4 languages and it gets harder to learn new ones the more languages you already know

@remybuitenhuis2433 5 лет назад

He speaks 31 because his dutch was not.understandable

@willwalker24601 4 года назад

The reason it sounds unlike the languages he's speaking is he has an extremely thick accent

@jhin6181 4 года назад

How ironic, lmao. The dude that speaks 32 languages has a fucking accent xd

@Septiccatgaming 4 года назад

Do you speak 30 languages? Doubt it.

@willwalker24601 4 года назад

@@Septiccatgaming I didn't say that, I was just pointing it out cus a lot of the comments say stuff like "It didn't sound like so & so language"

@jhin6181 4 года назад

@@willwalker24601 Don't mind such people. They get offended by every little inconvenience and what not. People like that aren't worth your time

@ihatemyselfuwu3960 4 года назад

@@jhin6181 no such thing as not having an accent lmao??

@RafaelCardoso299 Год назад

Such a cool video ! This is really impressive!

@givanza1188 4 года назад

Imagine if everyone in the world spoke multiple languages.

@vanuatu2027 4 года назад

well then Americans like me would have a hard time

@11_sohamvaidya53 3 года назад

In India, multilingualism is very common...

@aaaaaaa6954 3 года назад

Or if everyone learned esperanto

@ksspeedblindfoldedsolving843 3 года назад

@@aaaaaaa6954 something interesting about Esperanto is that in Chinese is 世界语世界＝world 语＝ language So it means "The language of the world"

@skkotbtw 2 года назад

@@Manzar534 i know 5, is it considered multilingual?

@predictivetextisforaunts 4 года назад

Dude can speak 32 languages and most of the comments are more concerned with his sexuality? He’s clearly a very intelligent man, who cares what his sexual orientations are?

@vagabaassassina3461 4 года назад

I do

@predictivetextisforaunts 4 года назад

Vagaba Assassina That says more about you, than about him.

@kaleb7832 3 года назад

That's internet for ya

@painzrt7928 3 года назад

I didn't see any comment about it.a

@generichuman2044 3 года назад

In all honesty, I didn't even realise he said husband until I read the comments. I guess my brain just thought, "yeah it's normal, the guy is in a loving marriage"

@Ethentent 6 лет назад

This guy is exactly who I wanna be. A gay hyperpolyglot who speaks languages for a living.

@maxblanchard5258 5 лет назад

Me too though

@Terence.McKenna 5 лет назад

Nobody asked

@mert.e 5 лет назад

God me too

@maxblanchard5258 5 лет назад

@@mert.e where does one acquire such a wonderful boyfriend?

@mert.e 5 лет назад

@@maxblanchard5258 you tell me

@ladynight3790 2 года назад

Ioannis really makes me feel inspired to speak more Languages. Sure my family's language is a bit rusty sometimes but I'm still learning. Plus, I'm willing to speak others like my biggest goal for example, Japanese. And of course, a few European Languages as well.

@Exderius 3 года назад

Keep up the great work

@sk011151 7 лет назад

The difficulty of a foreign language is just a concept relative to our mother languages. For Japanese and Korean speakers, Mandarin is definitely not excessively complicated to learn at all. Being a Chinese speaker myself, I find European languages way harder than Asian ones.

@s00048 6 лет назад

YL lv True.

@RestingJudge 6 лет назад

I mean if someone speaks an indo European language it is easier to learn them. I cannot make heads or tails of east Asian language 😂

@Someone-cd7yi 6 лет назад

Is that a real girl? English is a Germanic language, not Latin.

@MrKholishUmar 6 лет назад

Een trotse Nederlander Yes it is, but it has so many words derived from latin

@managersejinstan1523 6 лет назад

Een trotse Nederlander People can argue both. A lot of English words have Latin roots, hence why it's easier for English speakers to learn French, Italian and Portuguese than most

@Pupot1 7 лет назад

He's gay, travels the world, works with the UN, and knows 32 languages, my new life goal has been set

@ThePainkillerHun 7 лет назад

with the EU;)

@mkrzeminski89 7 лет назад

you can eff off then

@ArtCore616 6 лет назад

The gay part is optional

@kittii2167 6 лет назад

lance lim 300th like XD

@matthewrizkhla3593 6 лет назад

lance lim don’t be gay you would suck and be a stupid little Moron

@user-zd3jz5pi6i 4 года назад

Google Translator: I speak every language in the world. This Guy: Hold my dictionary!

@krysztof6917 4 года назад

Kinda sad that Google translate doesn't have Cantonese

@shadysam7161 3 года назад

More like "I fuck up with every language in the world!"

@pedrocortes1 4 года назад

*top 10 rappers the duolingo bird was too afraid to diss*

@Checco105 4 года назад

1:21 WHAT KIND OF MOUSE IS THAT?!

@xstingrayx 4 года назад

Evoluent Vertical Mouse 80,00$

@DaviAreias 4 года назад

You unlock it after learning your 15th language

@isimsiz1531 4 года назад

@@DaviAreias 😄

@subspace2913 4 года назад

it's an ergonomic mouse

@Ludwig1625 4 года назад

A mouse that prevents carpal tunnel perhaps? Seen as it is an ergonomic mouse

@EndohMiharu 7 лет назад

At what point does he consider a language "learned"?

@bullsfan4744 7 лет назад

EndohMiharu probably when he can speak it fluently

@bullsfan4744 7 лет назад

EndohMiharu Because as you probably already from posting that comment you can't really completely learn a language

@girlonline7825 7 лет назад

Ayden Bopes only speak? What about the writing and reading skills?

@Tony-ky2ce 7 лет назад

EndohMiharu i think it'll be when he can listening to that language fluently like mother tounge ( and reading-speaking it kinda normally)

@celestialcolosseum 6 лет назад

+Girl Online Well it depends on the language, my first language is Turkish and it's phonetic so if you can write a word you can pronounce it, or if you hear/pronounce a word you can write it. But most of the languages aren't like this, for example English. In English words can sound the same but can be written as different words. This will make the writing part harder to learn. Hope i knew more than these two languages :l

@cestmoi5702 4 года назад

Hé understands the world better because of his study of so many languages. Bravo, sir. Bravo. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

@jeanettelebarron3306 Год назад

I am greatly impressed!!

@reindfield5253 4 года назад

"They call me Mr worldwide"

@zmir01 4 года назад

Reinfield - Calamity 😂😂😂

@kenogu436 4 года назад

I’m a hustler baby !!

@andyw.3048 4 года назад

*madman..?

@ickleronny 3 года назад

Wow, if he makes lyrical music, it'd be super interesting

@nickmcg 6 лет назад

Wait so what language does he think in????

@mep6302 5 лет назад

Greek, because he's greek (I'm not sure)

@anchetuh1181 5 лет назад

Mau Pr not all the time u think in one language, sometimes u think in both. I speak Tagalog and I think taglish in my mind

@jeff8253 5 лет назад

Well I speak 5 languages and I think different depending on the language I speak. For instance thinking in German while speaking English is not really helpful and leads to vague sentences.

@anchetuh1181 5 лет назад

Jeff Lee sometimes when im talking in english, theres a word i forget or dont know, so my mind ends up thinking it in tagalog. its weird. like expressing ideas in another language is always so mch different in different languages

@kaylazx 5 лет назад

Most polyglots think in whatever language they're speaking at the time. When I'm around English speakers, I think in English; around French speakers, I think in French.

@ChilenoAlemanCanada 4 года назад

PSA: To speak 32 languages fluently and maintain them is nigh impossible. *Maybe* you have learned them all to fluency at some point, but with that number there will likely be some left in the dust long enough that you no longer speak them well or at all. ("Use it or lose it.") Unless, of course, you dedicate your life 100% to maintaining all 32 of your languages. Which would be stupid. Besides, it seems several of the languages he spoke here weren't quite up to snuff. This guy probably speaks a lesser number of languages (who knows-could be 8 or 12 or 17) and has studied 32. ALSO: You do *not* need to travel to learn a language. People need to quit spreading that myth.

@kubajcz 4 года назад

You dont need to travel, but it is very effective to do that.

@3rdvoidmen594 4 года назад

@Clementine's Thigh Gap his Chinese was shabby as well, I would say he talked like a guy who studied Chinese for a week at most. Edit: Even less, and Chinese isn't that hard tbh.

@3rdvoidmen594 4 года назад

@Clementine's Thigh Gap I am Indian and I speak far better, been living in Wuhan for 5 years now. Yes Wuhan 😁

@thatdinocalledvk5273 4 года назад

3rdVoid Men 你还住在武汉吗？I thought they evacuated all the foreigners lmao

@3rdvoidmen594 4 года назад

@@thatdinocalledvk5273 我现在不在中国。在印度. 有个人没有来。Depended on our choice, if we wanted to or not go back to our country. Had every help from the university to stay in quarantine.

@klaroxy7552 3 года назад

I always feel so excited in these lot language videos, and he even mentioned hungarian language. But I always, always, every single time have to dissapoint in that because its never on the "popular country" list sadly. Which I can understand but bruh.. Nice video! And here am I struggling with single english language to learn xd

@hahahaha-ih4md 6 лет назад

I don't think Chinese is the most complicated language. In my opinion, the difficulty of acquiring a language is relative. Mostly depending on what your mother tongue is....

@jeiku5314 5 лет назад

Talking is fine, writing is when things hit the fan.

@aurora7554 5 лет назад

It really depends on your current environment, personal variables and cultural background. Let's say you're Chinese, then Japanese and Korean will be relatively easier for me due to the "boxed writing style", speaking isn't really a problem if you're willing and would love to learn the language. But at the same time, languages such as Arabic, Latin and Russian will be fairly difficult. The same method can be applied to all languages really! The language that is the closest to your language may be the easiest to learn for most people. If you're introduced a language that is completely different from yours in every aspect then it'll be a bit of a problem. PS. The speaking part is fine if you're willing to learn. But the Chinese writing system definitely kills.

@charcadamy5258 5 лет назад

It really depends on what language/s you learned first. If you grew up speaking english and korean you would find most languages easier because korean and english are related to most popular languages

@ICanSpeakArabic 5 лет назад

this is exactly correct.

@valiantpramana 5 лет назад

Mandarin, , vietnamese, cantonese and something similar to them (language with tones) are always the hardest to learn for me

@writofmandamus 7 лет назад

Dang, if he said that Mandarin is the most complicated language to learn, that means he hasn't learned Cantonese.

@Jamie-rh1sv 7 лет назад

writofmandamus haha, Cantonese is easier for me, Mandarin really trips me up though, but it probably is because i grew up speaking Cantonese instead of Mandarin

@tielohnoms 7 лет назад

And his accent for Mandarin sucks.

@aerebrown 7 лет назад

Cantonese is a dialect, not a language :P

@tielohnoms 7 лет назад

Cantonese is a language, not a dialect. Taishanese, Yangpingnese and the like are Cantonese dialects. ":P" The official language of Hong Kong and Macau is Cantonese.

@aerebrown 7 лет назад

Okay I researched and there isn't a direct answer on whether Cantonese is a dialect or language. But it is considered a dialect in my country.

@trapbois4573 Год назад

Yeah speaking the language often helps with memory, so far its English, Hindi and Marathi for me but my girl is Dominican so learning Spanish is the goal now.

@irzy6014 4 года назад

I'm Greek and this made me feel proud for some reason

@jamiefranta8808 7 лет назад

So some people are more curious whether he's gay rather than how he managed to speak all those freakin languages lol people

@bigfoot.4451 6 лет назад

Maybe being gay gave him super language powers

@andrewbuchanan3380 6 лет назад

Jamie Franta ya i was shocked when he said husband lol

@syllevineo 6 лет назад

Jamie Franta he mentioned that he has a husband so of hes gay and why does that even matter

@derickburke7171 6 лет назад

Well of course hes gay he stated in the video that he has a husband

@crazyone1019 6 лет назад

Jamie Franta yeah he gay. Cuz he has a husband. Not a wife.

@M0Kiiii 4 года назад

uhm i am dutch myself and i didnt understand a word of what he said😂💀 1:14

@susan-9366 4 года назад

Inderdaad, het leek meer op Duits haha

@M0Kiiii 4 года назад

Susan - het leek op op geen taal😂

@DillonTrinhProductions 4 года назад

@@M0Kiiii lies

@crasho 4 года назад

As a native Dutch speaker, I found it perfectly legible, although the grammar was way off. He said: "Ik leef mijn leven in meerderen spraken, in meerdere talen en niet maar in 1 taal."

@lisannevanpuyvelde2741 4 года назад

@@crasho ja, ik begreep ook wat hij zij maar het klonk zo als vele niet Nederlands talige proberen Vlaams of Nederlands te spreken.

@Aritul 4 года назад

Fascinating!

@hernandezmosquedamark3896 4 года назад

I speak most of the languages he spoke thru the video, his performance; excellent.

@Kira1Lawliet 4 года назад

The most difficult language is really a subjective question. In terms of pronunciation, Mandarin might be the hardest, considering not only the exotic phonetic system but also the tones, but grammatically it's actually one of the simples languages I've come across. In terms of grammar, Ancient Greek is probably one of the hardest I've had experience with. And, even though it's a dead language, Ancient Mayan beats Chinese out of the water in terms of script complexity.

@Diedela 4 года назад

Lmao I study Latin and Ancient Greek in high school, I dropped Latin because I thought Ancient Greek was easier.

@fatt_yoshi5507 4 года назад

Upcoming Archeologist?

@hexyko4850 4 года назад

Mandarin? Try Cantonese, 9 tones, they use traditional Chinese writing and HK uses a lot of slang. Have you ever heard of Xhosa? There are many difficult languages.

@hexyko4850 4 года назад

@@Spacebar You should differentiate. He was speaking Mandarin. I'd say Cantonese is much harder.

@khadijaali2609 4 года назад

@@Spacebar as a non native English speaker and someone who also has a bunch of non native friends it's actually mostly accepted that English is easy apart from pronunciation sometimes

@dino5624 6 лет назад

And I am here like a potato that only can talk 2 languages

@bigfoot.4451 6 лет назад

*speak in

@srnigromante9214 6 лет назад

Chicken Skateboard Thats already one more than an average person

@dccarter7123 6 лет назад

Fler än mest!

@AzuReGravity 6 лет назад

No One No, it’s speak lol

@YaBoiManraj 5 лет назад

I speak 3 Hindi, Punjabi, and English

@ilovegreen0150 4 года назад

Wow. Congratulations ❤️

@georgeramos3437 3 года назад

How beautiful it must be to dream in all sorts of languages!

@nancycruz1756 6 лет назад

DANG HE TALKED IN SPANISH SO PERFECT👏

@cedrics7374 5 лет назад

His dutch and his french were of intermediate level, not that great. But hey, at least he can use it.

@MrSeksyy 4 года назад

LOL Nancy he talked perfectly. Venga! :)

@glorialeyva8227 4 года назад

verdad que si? creo que hasta tenia acento caribeño XDD

@user-ip8dg5uv5q 4 года назад

Gloria Leyva mi primer idioma es el español y yo si le he notado acento extranjero y extranjerizado en lo único que ha dicho en español que es una frase. es imposible que sepas si su español es perfecto con una simple frase que ha dicho. IMPOSIBLE. Tendría que hablar más tiempo para poder juzgar su español. Solamente ha dicho una puñetera frase. No es nada difícil decir correctamente una frase en otro idioma. Lo difícil es cuando se va más alla de una frase. Hablar etc. Y el no ha hablado en español. Solamente ha dicho una frase. 😒😒😒😒. De todas formas no le resto nada de mérito. Bravo por el. xD. Es muy bueno en lo suyo. Un crack.

@glorialeyva8227 4 года назад

@@user-ip8dg5uv5q Lo que digas. Pero que te conste que no hay un solo acento español. Mas de 20 paises lo tienen de idioma oficial y cada uno de ellos lo habla con un acento distintivo. Que si no suene como a tu pais no quiere decir que no lo hable bien :)

@roidaniel10 4 года назад

Ioannis Ikonomu: I speak 30 languages laoshu505000: Hold my beer

@jacquelineliu2641 4 года назад

Roi Daniel Ioannis's Mandarin is very hard to understand for me, and I'm a native speaker. Laoshu on the other hand, speaks it almost like a native speaker.

@nessie4215 4 года назад

While I love laoshu, it's obvious that for some languages, he learns basic phrases like "I'm learning this language. I like this language. I can speak these other languages" but when he tries to do more he can't. Hope it doesn't sound like hate, just something I noticed. I'm curious if the guy in the video is the same.

@elguero9279 4 года назад

Jacqueline Liu to be fair, Mandarin is laoshus second language and he has said before it is his strongest language aside from English

@Greezy2000 4 года назад

@Boodha Aadamee (In Retrospect)

@zak.travis 4 года назад

@@nessie4215 that's just how laoshu starts off, he learns more after that, just those things first so he can start a conversation more easily and get experience listening and speaking

@AmandaSbarros 4 года назад

So amazing,I love lenguage I hope I can learn a lot of them

@fsr4773 Год назад

I was literally talking with him last night I was at a party in Brussels, then I Googled him and I fell of my chair, such a humble man.

@ayberkulgen5180 4 года назад

Him saying "I speak to my husband..." cleared my skin, watered my crops and drew out the happiest sigh.

@katt0906 4 года назад

Hes gay andi noticed that too i was like what dafuq

@ocular4925 4 года назад

Why?

@Koshijapan53 4 года назад

Gay people we stan!!!!!! Unite!!!!!!

@brikC 4 года назад

Yeah for me it like caught me off guard. So I disliked the video after he said that and stopped watching.

@edithorellana6426 4 года назад

@@brikC thats rude

@ezra3027 7 лет назад

I'm from the Netherlands and I couldn't understand anything of what he just said..

@MVahag 4 года назад

I think there's a number of languages a polyglot can learn after which the quality of each will start to deteriorate, considering the extreme amount of time you need to learn and maintain a language knowledge up to an upper intermediate level (where I myself consider that I have learnt the language). And 32 is way past that number. Judging from the comments from natives he is at lower intermediate level at best for some of the languages.

@sophieedel6324 2 года назад

He seems to be much lower than even "intermediate level" in these languages. His Dutch is plain incomprehensible to me, what he said made no sense.

@nina-oz6xj 4 года назад

"how did he learn so many languages omg" *laughs in balkan and european*

@crazyabouthisrae 7 лет назад

I wish i could learn languages easily too😭 totally agree with him on mandarin being difficult. Im chinese but english is my more dominant language and mandarin is so difficult because the grammar and structure is so different from english. To be honest though, i really could'nt understand what he was saying in mandarin cause his pronunciation is pretty bad. Also if im not wrong, he directly translated what he wanted to say in english in to mandarin and that kinda resulted in a weird sentence. :/

@celinechoo5972 7 лет назад

crazyabouthisrae HAHAHA yes he does need to work on his pronounciation and tones more. english is my dominant language too! but i use mandarin to communicate with my mom.

@aribh4929 7 лет назад

crazyabouthisrae Well its not that hard. You just need to be exposed to it and use it frequently. Like on a daily basis. My mom was from India so I learned her mother tounge without even meaning to because she spoke in it to her siblings and stuff

@bvbxiong5791 7 лет назад

chinese grammar is not that different from english. yes, there are differences, like classifiers...but overall, its much more similar to english than korean and japanese, which are the completely grammatically different.

@meateater7092 7 лет назад

His chinese is right.. he said "慢慢意识到了怎么*可*(才)能学习(到)好多外国语言 just replace the star with the bracket and you get the accurate sentence.. Lol

@nylon4529 7 лет назад

Oh your bilingual(think how you spell this) me too

@shsshshhs1974 4 года назад

I'm chinese and I didn't really understand what he said 😂😅

@IamSome1 4 года назад

Its because u have no brain, Jk xd I did not understand either ...

@user-ip8dg5uv5q 4 года назад

Μακης Ο. No. If he is a native Mandarin speaker and he does not understand what Joannis says in Mandarin , it.is not because he has not a brain, it is n because the Mandarin spoken by Joannes is bad. When a native speaker does not understand what you say in his/her language , that is a bad sign...xD.

@shsshshhs1974 4 года назад

მე მარია hehe his accent was realllyyyy strong and hard to understand

@alexaaa7174 4 года назад

@@user-ip8dg5uv5q I can't understand what you're saying cuz of the bad grammar

@jasperknaepen1044 4 года назад

Its the same with the dutch, barely understandable but still a good try.

@buenvidanadz1969 4 года назад

Is there a list of the languages that he knows?

@hipbubble7685 4 года назад

When he started talking dutch he had a very thick accent but it seems like he can talk his way around fine though

@AJAdkins99 7 лет назад

A lot of people are saying his pronunciation is poor in many languages, but if you actually listen, his grammar is perfect and he uses natural sounding phrasing.

@Mertiy7 6 лет назад

Nah he didn't even conjugate the verbs in Turkish

@AJAdkins99 6 лет назад

Mertiy ok sorry I don't speak Turkish so I couldn't catch that one

@rowanjin4119 6 лет назад

His mandarin was very good :)

@mauricemaenhout5320 6 лет назад

his dutch was also horrible i couldn't understand what he was saying and I'm a native dutch speaker...

@nigelmulliniz4021 6 лет назад

His Mandarin is pretty good, better than mine even

@sebastian3358spawn 4 года назад

Greetings from Athens Greece 🇬🇷 Btw im half Greek and half Polish. All i need is 29 more languages!

@ertecoglou 4 года назад

I'm really proud that he is from Greece because I'm from Greece too

@themig6101 4 года назад

Emilios Ertecoglou me too

@laseixd492 3 года назад

Portuguese!!😚💞 *Eu amo a minha língua!! Viva a Língua Portuguesa!* 💞

@alishanicolepeace 6 лет назад

He said one sentence in 5 languages. I want to know how many languages he can speak Fluently, not just the basics.

@bayernjoan5021 5 лет назад

He speaks fluenlty 16 languages.He said that in an interview

@hsuhorn 5 лет назад

bayern joan that’s pretty good

@traininggrounds9450 4 года назад

No that's his own estimation of "fluent". The only real determination of fluency is having at least 3 native speakers not tell the difference between you and the other native speakers. If they can't tell then that is true fluency. Or, if you think that's too staunch then call it "native" level speaker and then true fluency is when 3 native speakers don't have to try to understand what you are saying when you say it. Plenty of people here have said his mandarin was bad, his dutch was horrific and who knows what else people would say about his other languages he "speaks".

@novembermoon6869 7 лет назад

Why does everyone feel the need to ask if he's gay? If he says he has a husband, that means he's not straight. Besides, it doesn't matter what his sexuality is.

@finleycastello6512 7 лет назад

upside down smile, IKR! People need to calm down.

@Fr_87 7 лет назад

upside down smile straight men don't have husbands, ever.

@jaydenhpiano5600 7 лет назад

but hes gay

@boopdoop8595 7 лет назад

ZeckDoesStuff what if he's bi?

@boopdoop8595 7 лет назад

ZeckDoesStuff wait nvm I just read something about it

@maxvanderschaaf7358 4 года назад

I'm dutch, out of all the dutch he spoke. I didnt understand a word he said. Good job

@chenrailing2106 3 года назад

Bro I study in Singapore and this guy's Chinese is better than some of my classmates no joke

@AtakanCaMinecraft 4 года назад

His spanish was quite good i didnt like his turkish though it wasnt even mediocre

@alventuradelacruz522 4 года назад

Si, su español tenía un acento un poco de ruso pero bién pronunciado

@AtakanCaMinecraft 4 года назад

@@alventuradelacruz522 si exactamente pero su turco entendí nada

@Alfreeod 4 года назад

The one who rocks si si yo tampoco lo entendí.

@birhancakar8825 4 года назад

How tf you know both langueges im turkish but his turkish was awful

@AtakanCaMinecraft 4 года назад

@@birhancakar8825 ogrendim ahshshshsh ispanyada yasadim bir sure

@HaydenLau. 7 лет назад

Yeah, don't know about the rest, but his mandarin is pretty terrible. Still impressive i guess

@wcnmvp3820 6 лет назад

I've heard that Mandarin is easier for English speakers because they can identify certain tones and syllables whereas he is Greek (native language being Greek) and because they have a different writing system, it would be harder for him to learn and pronoucne

@nigelmulliniz4021 6 лет назад

It's pretty good in my opinion

@burakthecreator5492 6 лет назад

Turkish is pretty bad too

@sophiewang8406 6 лет назад

It's definitely not the best but I think it's amazing considering how difficult it is.

@smalpiper4999 6 лет назад

His Dutch was eh... I’m Dutch and was unable to understand him without the English subtitles.

@formicidae6710 3 года назад

Ho Chi Minh also learned about the same amount of language at this man. He learned them by listening to the foreigners on the ship that he worked on. He is a legend to Vietnamese

@caseyaulbach7693 4 года назад

His Mandarin is very wishy-washy. His sentencing & grammar are fine, but his accent is so thick that you can't ascertain which tones he is trying to use. Similar story with his Spanish - proper sentence structuring, subpar pronunciation. He needs to put down the books and pick up a laptop, download Skype and start talking to native speakers more often. Still, he is way more talented than me.

@powerbounce3445 4 года назад

同意

@dante350 4 года назад

His Spanish wasn't bad to be honest

@smileychess 4 года назад

His Russian had a thick accent, hard to hear, but seemed functional.

@EdgarthenaturalJimenez 4 года назад

His spanish is superb.

@KrishnaDasLessons 4 года назад

Birds_of_Dander With Spanish, the way you speak it doesn't really matter, it is more about clarity. But with Chinese, pronounciations are incredibly important, like if you mispronounce a word it can change its meaning. So I think it is more quantity over quality here.

@YurimoHikashi 7 лет назад

Very inspiring. Awesome guy😍 I'm currently trying to learn Japanese. I only speak Dutch,Thai and English right now and I want to learn more!

@Lolrunnermemeking 7 лет назад

Pobody's Nerfect 麦わら帽子 weeb

@kyungsoonation6189 7 лет назад

+Lolrunner really...😑

@andradastoiciu8067 7 лет назад

he is such an inspiration, I'm at 5 languages right now, Romanian, French, English, Spanish, and Italian, and learning 2 others, Japanese and Korean, I really hope one day I will reach his level

@markdelacruz3036 2 года назад

I hope he can/will speak Filipino as well. I myself is also a lover of different languages, but nothing beats my mother tongue, Filipino.

@yerusalemabreha4578 4 года назад

Wow impressive. I remember trying to learn Russian & Japanese and both were difficult for me.

@joelcosita 7 лет назад

I absolutely LOVED the part where he went from Spanish to Russian!!! I grew up speaking Spanish and English and I studied Russian in college and I also spent a month in Russia a few years ago for a language immersion course. It felt so normal to me when he switched from Spanish to Russian! I didn't skip a beat and for a quick second I didn't even realize that he made the switch only because I understood him perfectly.I studied German at the same time I studied Russian and I just love both of those languages!!! I should make a RU-vid video about it.