I'm 17 and I'm just sitting here eating my oreos.

they could have coloured most of the map if he speaks spanish

Im kinda jealous

He's no prodigy. He's just dedicated. He says it himself.

Currently I can speak English (my native language is Russian), German, Mandarin. Studying Swedish and Japanese, soon going to pick up Arabic and Spanish. Thanks for inspiration, Tim!

you sir are amazing. I'm barely bilingual

I don't think this kid realizes the type of careers he could get into. . .

Omg so what if he doesn't know Spanish, he speaks 20 other languages!! He could learn Spanish in a day if he wanted to, relax guys.

Wasn't surprised when I realised he was left-handed too. 4:17

I hope this kid grows up to become Daniel from Stargate SG1

I speak Pashto, Urdu, Hindi and English. I understand some Arabic and I am learning Spanish. And I am here thinking that I speak a lot of languages!

That's fantastic!! I need to learn another language!!

Awesome! i know three languages and was trying to choose between Japanese and Korean maybe i should learn both!

huh,i didnt know my language (greek) was dead haha :P i guess he means ancient greek but i wouldnt call it dead people never stopped using it the language never died,it just involved we are taught ancient greek at school(kinda) so a lot of greeks can either read or speak ancient greek or they can do both

before i watched this video i read the title, and i was 100% sure he coudn't speak dutch ''yet''. en ja hoor, ik had gelijk ;))

I can speak five languages: Filipino, Chinese, Japanese, English, Indonesian (and little bit malaysian). Too bad no one supports me and often times I'm just self studying. I only rely on available resources - internet for example. I don't have money to afford formal education about languages. But by the way, this guy is really awesome. If he's going to speak filipino, primarily the tagalog, the grammar has a resemblance with Indonesian and Malaysian so it's not that hard to learn.

His voice changes depending on the language he's speaking lol

he should run for secretary of state

really inspired meee:) thanks fellow

I have watched so much anime i have watched over the years and i cant speak Japanese. SMH

OMG he's watching Psycho-Pass to study Japanese xD おいおい、サイコパスじゃないか（笑） 他在看【心靈判官】學日文啊！ 애니메 PSYCHO-PASS를 보고 일본어를 공부하고 있어요! Está vendo o anime PSYCHO-PASS estudar Japonês! ...yep that's all I got T_T

Thnkr: Prodigies, Restoring hope for the human race.

What impresses me the most about him is his humility. He is willing to ask anyone for clarification, even during this video. Well done, sir! :D I only have half the languages he does, and I'm much older!

ummm.....does he have something against the Spanish language?

Being dedicated is a huge part of being a prodigy.

Wtf this guy speaks Dutch? I speak Dutch as well and I don't understand the language sometimes. It is awesome that he speaks a language that about twenty million people speak.

I'm FIlipino but I grew up in HK and I speak English, Tagalog, Cantonese and Mandarin fluently. The fun thing about knowing different languages is that I can think of a phrase in a language and translate it around when I'm doing a composition for school.

oh he didn't learn spanish >

Show me a prodigy that isn't "dedicated". Pure dedication might account for being fluent in 3 languages at age 17...but 20? That is exceptional ability. Don't see how his dedication makes him not exceptional.

omg i just know Persian ,Arabic and English. i wanna learn more good luck Tim

I only know, English, Portuguese, and Spanish. What an amazing 'talent'!! :)

this kid is going to work for the CIA

But... Greek isn't dead.

This video is great! It's inspiring. I want to learn Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, Shona and ASL :)

This young man is either going to be personal tutor for the most prominent people in the world or a one-of-a-kind translator for the leaders of the world. Very impressive.

i speak english and turkish and i must say his turkish is pretty impressive for someone who speaks an additional 19 languages

I understand the way you learn with TV because that is the way I learned English. I'm from Serbia and I can speak fluid English because when I was a kid Disney Channel and Jetix didn't have serbian subtitles so I had to make myself understand.

I have loved learning languages too, but as I keep getting older and more busy, I can't find time to continue studying :( So far, I know Spanish and English at high levels, but French is getting up there. I know introductory sign language and German. I need to work on those and Arabic as well as begin on Mandarin.

this man doesnt need subtitles watching anime dubbed in japanese seriously cool and with games that are exclusive for example in japan where the final fantasy series are in japanese

No spanish or portuguese? that's a whole continent with only two languages

In Denmark it's common to speak 2-3 languages fluently and understand even more, but this is damn beautiful. 20 languages... Unbelievable

I've got so much respect for this guy. I'm a Turkish girl who lives in The Netherlands and I can speak English fluently. So I could help him, but he's to far from here :P. I was learning Japanese, Korean and Arabic (in my own time), but because of college I didn't had the time for it. This guy gives me the feeling to start learning these languages again, and I'm gonna do that :D. Thank you Tim :)

What no Korean? Hahaha! 20 languages, I can barely speak three! I'm amazed!

he has no problem playing games with many language support

Pashto is an Indo-European language, not a semitic language, it's insulting that in the thumbnail of this video Pashto is depicted with an arabic alphabet, where actually its original alphabet is similar to those of Punjabi and Hindi. It's a sensitive topic because the indo-european populations of middle eastern countries are being heavily persecuted and forcefully assimilated by muslim-arab regimes, be more aware of that next time.

his English is incredible. :)

OMG he is amazing!! It makes me so inspired to keep learning French! I live in Australia and it is very similar to the US in the way that we are only raised learning English. My school never had a full second language course for students, there was one option, but I never really had an interest as a teen. But I'm taking up learning french as a hobby now :-)

I've been teaching myself Japanese for a while, and I find that what is actually difficult is not learning vocabulary, more the sentence structures and how different they are.

Good job man ;) Glad you picked up Farsi!

He can speak my language!!!

Wait. Greek isnt dead.

He doesn't speak spanish!!???

man this guy motivates me even more to learn more languages! thank you!

I'm really impressed, amazing job!

How does he not speak Spanish.... one of the most spoken languages in the world. But he knows some random African language..

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Two things immediately stand out about this amazing young man. He's left handed and he speaks English at an extremely rapid rate. This tells me his brain is wired differently than most people's brains.

Wow he is amazing! U know what? I'm going to start learning Spanish soon in my junior year and practice some Italian and Japanese at home by myself.

there was a great point there - learning languages is like learning its cultures -- exactly my point. Good for you and best wishes on new ones!

you kick ass tim! 완전 멋저!

I'm learning English in NE who is from Japan. I respect u so much!! Actually I was thinking about studying other language, but my English is still poor so I just focus the English that's why I gave it up. However I changed mind that I will try some language soon!! Your presence gave me courage. Thank you! 日本語も頑張ってください！！

Of all the THNKR prodigies, this is the one I envy most!!

I love Tim. He is awesome. Such a smart dude.

Holy moly....that was amazing man.....unbelievable....

His french is excellent. Bravo jeune homme, continuez votre beau travail!

that's amazing and inspiring!

This is very inspiring!

He is amazing.

Fantastic! This guy is my Hero!

This guy is amazing

I've been subscribed to his channel for a while. He's pretty amazing

This is just amazing! I admire such talent. I can barely get myself to speak two! If you were to learn Spanish, you would cover a lot more of the world, which would be the coolest thing ever. But I understand that he probably learns the languages with the history that he's interested in.

I used to think it's abnormal that I'm interested in 15+ languages and usually all I do in my free-time is learning languages but now I feel normal again hahah It must be hard to keep all of them at the same level, I tend to forget even easy English words

I know only english :( and I am learning arabic

This is awesome. I've been learning German for about 2 years now in school, but even then I couldn't compare with him in his Hebrew or anything. It's inspirational! I love learning it, though I definitely wish I was better at actually speaking it and communicating vs. just being able to write and read it. But this motivates me to practice speaking it much more! Language learning is so much fun!

AMAZING!

He is truly inspiring.. I'm curious to see how very linguistically diverse he will be in years to come!

This young man is so motivating. I'm living in Korea now and desperate to learn Hangul. I love the quote he mentioned from Nelson Mandela: "When you talk to a man in his second language, you talk to his brain. When you talk to a man in his first language, you speak to his heart." Tim is the kind of president America needs; he'd be someone who can connect with hearts of people all over the world.

wow amazing you learned Farsi(Persian) as well? Really hard language ...

Amazing. Really mind-blowing.

I know Polish from my parents, Norwegian because I live in Norway and English from school. I am starting in mini-high after the summer, then I'm going to learn German. I am planning to learn Portugeuse, Spanish and French too so I can travel in Latin-America and such.

This is so me! after a couple of beers I can speak any language on the earth!

Wow. ^_^ that's exactly how I feel about learning a language! I took Japanese at school for the last 2 years (I'm 16 now) and this summer I'm learning Romanian. And at school next year I'm taking manadrin Chinese and Russian. (Russian isn't offered at school so I'm learning that on my own) ^_^ I wish someone had told me a lot sooner how FUN it was to learn languages!

RESPECT!

Inspiring!

Amazing!!!

and of course he is left-handed :)

He would make a great peace maker.

This is amazing! I would love to see him learning portuguese! :D

Yes, I noticed - he is indeed left-handed like a lot of creatives! What a great young man . . .

wow this guy is amazing!

Bravo young man! I have spent my life and heart travelling the world learning...welll ...trying to learn as much language as possible...you philosophy on language and culture is identical to mine. Sadly, I didn't know this about myself til mid 20's and now have a bit of damage to my memory section of my brain when I was late 30's. But I do hope to begin learning Ute soon. I am fluently bi-lingual and can get by in 3-4 others and can speak a bit of many many others....maybe 15? Good on ya!

Tremendous young man!

People like Tim can bring the world much closer together, good luck to him!

You can try learning croatian on serbian because if you learn one you also learn the former language of ex Yugoslavia.

keep working on your goal. don't let others effect your motivation in a bad way. i am studying my second language even though its a bit late for me to do so. but my reward for learning the language is to go visit the country that speak that language and have a fun memorable vacation. ^_^

I will agree with him on the movie watching thing. I've been watching movies and such for about a year now that are in German. And they help out A LOT, specially when you don't know anyone you can call up to have a conversation with.

4:48 He's watching Psycho-Pass! Great anime!

amazing capability, true inspiration, after seeing this I think my hindi needs more polishing.

He is an inspiration. I'm trying to learn german by myself but it's a pain.