Trying to be Realistic Polyglots: A Chat With Gabriel Silva 

it's so amazing being able to understand almost everything you guys are saying! It's been a long but pretty awesome process that I'm so proud of! 😍

I like the title '...REALISTIC...' and the video contains lots of good advice for the perfectionists out there, like myself. After years of agonising about parking languages, the penny dropped that it's fine to return after a break and get quickly back up to speed; I've found this recently with Czech and Dutch. I also liked the analogy of finding your way to a friend's house and Gabriel's thoughts on 'needing' to use his German. It does take a certain amount of courage and self-confidence to do this, though

I would like to congratulate both of you! Amazing video.

Two inspiration for us, Mr Kafman and Gabriel definitely I agree with you guys, we learn about exposure, a lot of exposure, Thanks for sharing your videos and inspiring us

Good vedio with Gabriel Silva, as usual thank you Steve .

Me encanta su contenido , siempre nos compartes oro ❤️❤️❤️

I've just gone through a two month of low motivation with language learning, and did not do much work. It's great to be back on track again. Watching these videos always helps my motivation and hone my methodology to become a better language learner.

"We're on the same page" That was the King talking to the Prince. Lovely.

Ótimo vídeo, vocês são duas grandes inspirações

I always love speaking to my mum and grandparents in Russian because it reminds me that I can actually speak Russian. I spend most of my time reading/listening to things in English, and now German, and so I feel like I can't speak the language because I don't really have the opportunity to use it, but it's like what you said, where you have it in a database and it's so lovely to bring it to the forefront, despite some holes that have arisen since the last time you spoke it

Amazing two languages.❤️

Nossa é muito bom vídeos do Gabriel e Steve! Os dois são foda!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 os dois me inspiram 🙏🏻

I fully subscribe to what you said - sometimes we don't need to upgrade our level of some language, we don't have motivation or we are just bored with it (I had this problem with German) and that is perfectly ok

Two legends!

Great video!

I have found that I'm more interested in reading literatures, and listening to videos/watching movies in the languages I am learning, than in making sure that my speech is competent. I do work on the speech patterns, but I don't get hung up if I'm not very good. I sometimes communicate by writing in the language online, but mostly I find that reading and listening well motivates me to learn languages.

Duas lendas vivas! 2 people unbelievable!

I actually thought Gabriel was a native English speaker! He's so good!

Looking good Steve 💪🏽

It's such a sense of pround when I saw this video.

I don't know how these guys manage to maintain the balance. I've decided to take dedicate the whole year just to Japanese and make a youtube channel from it. But MANNNN the temptation to learn something else is soo strong! #LikeAKidInACandyStore

Hello Mr. Kaufmann! I'm a 16 year old from Canada in the process of learning Russian. Your videos have been invaluable! Since you've learned Russian, I wanted to ask: do you have any particular books in Russian that you enjoyed reading? I'm not quite at the level for Tolstoy and Dostoevsky originals, but really anything is helpful. Thanks so much for all your amazing advice!

In Portuguese, EXPRESSAR = to express. EXPRIMIR = to express. ESPREMER: to squeeze.

Thanks for help us yo learns English :)

My two best men!

Steve just wondering what do you think of writing poetry in language learning?

Se eu chegar a falar a nível de inglês do Sr. Steve fala português, ficarei contente!!

Do you understand Esperanto?

Que legal, Steve! Faça mais vídeos com o Gabriel! :D

한국어를 너무 잘해서 깜짝 놀랐어요. 한국어를 배우는 데 양질의 무료 자료들이 많지 않은 것에 동의합니다. 네이버에는 많은 사전이 있는데 영한,한영 사전은 나쁘지 않다고 생각해요. 그리고 넷플릭스를 시청할 때도 한국어 자막이나 영어자막이 많아요. 하지만 중요한 것은 얼마나 관심을 갖고 있느냐겠죠. 그 점을 전 충분히 동의해요. 저도 언어를 공부하다가 충분한 자료가 없어서 중도에 그만둔 경우가 많거든요.

Steve, did you have a tougher time learning Hebrew compared to Arabic? Or did you just have issues commiting to it? I found the learning curve for Hebrew pretty brutal.

Great crossover 😹

Dad and son

Hace unas semanas, estaba viendo Univision aqui en RU-vid. Hay una periodista popular que habla espanol muy rapidamente con acento espanol, realmente pensaba que ella era espanola, pero ella dijo "ha morido" en vez de "ha muerto" Que error tan basico! Esto me recuerda a los errores que hago como estudiante intermedio en el espanol. :)

A2: I can say things but I don't understand very well, B1: I understand but I can't speak very well, B2: I can do both.

Two monsters of language learning!

Sou fã dos dois

Unless you are measuring with a specific test, then A2, B1, is just a general idea of whatever you think, and it is not really measured.

Exprimir in portuguese is To Express, espremer is To Squeeze. I'm a native Brazilian, but I live abroad and and acquired several languages too. Not at the level you guys do.

Steve, in which of the languages you learned do you at least occasionally read classic literature? For example, have you ever read classic Portuguese poets or novelists?

There are two types of exposuring. One is that you don't look up words you don't know. Then you'll not improve that much.

Eu seo mexicano... Eu estou aprendendo a falar português mais e muit difícil, meu português e muit curto. Até logo!

Mr Kaufmann, eu começei um canal pra ensinar brasileiros a falarem inglês, nos videos eu falo só inglês (com legendas) você é uma inspiração muito grande pra mim. Parabéns pelo trabalho!!

Hi my friend Steve Please tell me what is the secret to speak Chinese fluently

I am looking forward to the return of these incredible polyglots

did you hear about "galegos" and your language??

O ruim de chamar Gabriel é que os gringos sempre vão te chamar de GAYbriel. 😂

I think you both hit the nail on the head from 10:00 until 11:10. Further thoughts at anylanguageilike.blogspot.com/2020/05/polyglot-discussion.html

Hi Dr. Kaufmann, Is it better to learn expression first in your target language?

I can say I'm D5

Esprimir é o mesmo de expressar

How old is Gabriel?

O Steve fala um inglês fácil de entender porque fala devagar e pausado agora tem uns nativos que tu sofre.

i appreciate polyglots but i would like to know on what level are on each language -b1 b2 c1 c2 i think if you are less than c1 it does not count as to know a language

Linguists (and real, ordinary life examples of folks) will argue against you till doomsday that children & adults are very incomparable when it comes to language learning capabilities.

何て言ってんのかわかんない

Realistic Polyglot? Wat?! It's obviously 90% hobby. You're not going to tell video gamers that it's unrealistic battle aliens all day, there's no need to tell polyglots that they aren't really going to be switching language every room they go into.