When I heard he got into Harvard at 9 I thought "He's going to be horribly depressed for the rest of his life, isn't he?". I guess I was right

@delphinidin

4 жыл бұрын

Well, with his parents pushing him like that, it's hardly surprising. He wasn't allowed to be a child, which is a form of emotional neglect, which is traumatic. And studies have shown that gifted people are more negatively affected by toxic environments, which is probably why giftedness and complex PTSD are positively correlated...

@Faythe98

4 жыл бұрын

PhiendishPhlox i was a gifted kid and have c-ptsd now as an adult so unfortunately you’re right 😂

@MuttFitness

4 жыл бұрын

You have to wonder why anyone would pressure a kid that much.

@a_literal_brick

4 жыл бұрын

Honestly colleges, especially world-renowned colleges, should refuse admission to anyone under 16 and strongly discourage parents from getting their kids college ready before then. Nobody needs to go to college more than two years early.

@DarkWarchieff

4 жыл бұрын

Most gifted people don't go a degree - they don't fit in with universities. Maybe they see them for what they are, a farce. we should close down all universities and replace them with job training. Imagine the efficiency!

So....... raising a kid without letting the child develop as a person doesn't end well.....suuurrrppprrriiissseeeee..... Poor guy..

@colereed7411

2 жыл бұрын

Just comment is hilarious yes so good amazing very nice just in case you're wondering big boy

this started off learning about the most languages, then turned into the story of William.

@mikeygallos5000

4 жыл бұрын

"So how many languages did he speak? I forgot what we were making a video about." Greatness Simon and staff 😅

@g8kpr3000

4 жыл бұрын

Thought the same. Got very confused. Was going to send this to my polyglot coworker. Decided not to when it went off the rails.

@LisaHerger

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly

@Josh729J

4 жыл бұрын

read "the animate and the inanimate" by him it is an amazing read.

Sidis was smart, but he had all the literary flair of an instruction manual for a hammer.

@lorenburnham821

4 жыл бұрын

He wrote it to be so boring, that it would literally put you to sleep. It's like a 1200 page meme on insomnia that only a niche audience will appreciate. Its hilarious

@averyboccella2390

4 жыл бұрын

No, its just the smarter you are, the more curiosity you have. He found what he said perfectly reasonable.

@renkyrie

4 жыл бұрын

Idk I was kinda interested in knowing why that transfer slip was different than normal. Maybe I should read the book

@colingray2572

4 жыл бұрын

S.d.. Sssz

@livedandletdie

3 жыл бұрын

Smart he was not, because a commie ain't smart no matter how intellectual they are. There's a huge difference in being booksmart and having common sense or an actual functioning worldview.

I have a friend that learned 8... in a year. He got a job a “linguist” for the US military. I think he still is, but lives a life very “off the grid.”

@chantelles3641

4 жыл бұрын

Do you know what languages he speaks? PS ask him if there's anymore vacancies please :-)

@christopherslim901

4 жыл бұрын

Chantelle S some... European Spanish, German, Mandarin, Japanese, Russian, French, Italian... after that IDK.

@kingfuzzy2

4 жыл бұрын

over 10 years ago took a class with a a language teacher who spoke 46 languages and could read / write but not speak 14 more he probably knows more by know since hes still alive.

@semaj_5022

3 жыл бұрын

That's super cool. I think for some people the way languages work just "clicks." Plus they obviously know the style of learning that best suits them so they end up just ridiculously impressive.

@RogerRamos1993

2 жыл бұрын

Why no mention of Carlos Amaral Freire?

Don't forget, people love to claim language skills. I've met several people who claimed to be able to speak different languages because they could say a phrase or two. One guy, Jerry, claimed he spoke French because he had been living in Canada for six months, and when a guy fluent in French showed up Jerry got real quiet real quick, haha. That was a good day.....

@staypositive4358

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I think this is the problem with most of the self-proclaimed polyglots - even many of the famous ones on KZread. Unless they can show CEFR credentials its hard to take them seriously. What happens most of the time is that they become fluent in a couple of languages then learn some beginner stuff in ten others and suddenly they think they are polyglots because they can say hi in Chinese.

@scottshanahan3827

3 жыл бұрын

Yes. I have an ex sister in law who claims to speak German because she took a couple of semesters of it in high school. She is not even conversational let alone fluent.

This is insane. Just yesterday I wondered about this topic, then started to look it up. I said out loud, “I wish Simon would do this.” Thanks.

@Josh729J

4 жыл бұрын

pigeonhole principle

In the mid-90's I met a Waiter in Turkey that spoke: English Spanish German Turkish Kurdish Arabic at least well enough to converse with the patrons of the diner we ate at. I heard him speak the top 4 of those myself.

@brinaf2857

4 жыл бұрын

That's awesome!

@azuregriffin1116

4 жыл бұрын

Which Kurdish?

@procopiusaugustus6231

4 жыл бұрын

I met a Turkish woman who spoke flawless English. I asked how long she had been in the US - six months. I didn’t believe her until I looked at her passport.

@azuregriffin1116

4 жыл бұрын

@@procopiusaugustus6231 foreign diplomats take 1200 hours to learn Turkish. Turkish and English are completely unrelated outside of a few loanwords (sandviç for sandwich, or we took their word yoghurt). Assuming it takes them as long to learn English, that's 200 hours a month, assuming she started from scatch, which sge likely didn't. Now, 200 hours a month is 50 hours a week. If you get around ten hours of exposure a day and spend even 3 or 4 hours a day hard-ass studying, I see it as pretty feasible.

@energicko

4 жыл бұрын

Where I live (in Southern California) I stunned Turks that even though I don't understand their tongue; I heard their slight French accents. I explained that I spent time in Quebec with Haïq/Hayk-Canadians (Armenians). They were nice enough to speak to me in English. Both the 🇺🇸 and the 🇨🇦 sides.

Imagine this episode being sponsored by skillshare or duolingo XD

@Daniel-ri2dy

4 жыл бұрын

Duolingo is absolutely useless for learning languages

@misspoopsy6336

4 жыл бұрын

A missed opportunity

@roygb

4 жыл бұрын

@@Daniel-ri2dy that's like saying learning to count is useless for being proficient in calculus. Are you sure about that?

@fatalgravity

4 жыл бұрын

Or Babble.

@Sea-zu4bj

4 жыл бұрын

Duolingo is a really basic introduction to a language you might want to learn. And it’s kind of fun, I don’t expect to come anywhere near fluent

Youd be surprised how many languages you'll be able to learn when you understand how languages work in and of themselves. It's pretty cool.

@Supercatzs

3 жыл бұрын

@mufodao matt vs japan

@staypositive4358

3 жыл бұрын

The only thing not surprising about learning new languages is the amount of hard work and time required to become fluent in any of them. Most languages have 100,000+ words. You'll find a large variety in terms of alphabets, speech patterns such as phonetic and tonal languages, sentence structure, exceptions to established rules within the language, pronouns, verb conjugations, and a myriad of other variances. Even if you can pick up the grammatical rules with ease (highly doubtful) you still need to memorize a roughly 1,500-2,000 words per language to have at least an intermediate level of fluency. There is a reason the vast majority of polyglots don't have official credentials to establish their fluency in each language they claim to speak.

@mateo_ferranco

3 жыл бұрын

@@staypositive4358 yes

@RogerRamos1993

2 жыл бұрын

Carlos Amaral Freire is possibly the one who speaks or spoke the most languages. He studied over a hundred.

@anuros1507

2 жыл бұрын

@@RogerRamos1993 Brasileiro

They made a boy genius and when he became too smart they tried to throw him in prison...

"I forgot what we were talking about..." Me too Simon. Still cool facts though!

As a comfort to anyone who finds it difficult to learn a second language, let alone more, I once heard that the ability was a function of training and brain architecture rather than intellect. As such, it was said of the diplomat Mr Bowering that “He was able to speak over two hundred languages yet was never heard to articulate a sensible thought in any of them...”

I'm trying to imagine someone angrily whistling at me when I step on his foot.

@fancyfeast1193

4 жыл бұрын

That'd be hilarious to witness. Lol

@katniptime4me

4 жыл бұрын

Wow. Swear Whistler. 😆

@kingfuzzy2

4 жыл бұрын

: D thats great

@livedandletdie

3 жыл бұрын

It's not actually that hard, you could literally whistle every single word in English, however unless people have practiced to they won't really understand it.

@livedandletdie

3 жыл бұрын

@Mike Spencer if it's modern day dentures that ruins your teeth well yes, if it's olden day dentures, then no.

"If you speak 3 you're an over achiever and everyone hates you" *Wow that hit home!!* I speak 6 (English, Afrikaans, Portuguese, Mandarin and learning French and Arabic). I've heard some "friends" say I just do it for attention. If I was a musician or an athlete I'd be praised for my records and not labelled as an attention seeker.

@kudjoeadkins-battle2502

4 жыл бұрын

I think that is awesome

@Crossword131

4 жыл бұрын

Said someone who had to post their achievements online.

@SleepyDudu

4 жыл бұрын

may I ask why not spanish yet? its one of the more popular languages. if I were to learn that many I would learn the more important ones first am I wrong?

@jorritvanderkooi939

4 жыл бұрын

I think Dutch could be easy for you, and by extension Frisian and German, as you know Afrikaans

@nicolasgainous5936

4 жыл бұрын

@@jorritvanderkooi939 Dutch and Afrikaans are intelligible with each other. So learning Dutch wouldn't be much of a challenge, more like learning a dialect

”if you speak three (languages) you’re an overachiever” laughs in europe.

@shawnsheffield4766

4 жыл бұрын

He lives in Prague. Just so you know.

@emilandreasson9670

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I live Sweden and we learn 3 languages in school, most people people forget one later on tho.

@couch9416

4 жыл бұрын

Emil Andreasson Here we learn German, English and I had french but french was a waste of time and noone remembers any of it

@arnehefer5749

3 жыл бұрын

**laughs in South African**

@ieatgremlins

3 жыл бұрын

Couchmann941 lol why was French a waste of time? Lol

Totally missed the chance for a “cunning linguist” joke with the whole “many tongued” thing at the beginning.

@PaxxMontana

4 жыл бұрын

Bruh ☠️

@ebonymaw8457

4 жыл бұрын

Is that where the word comes from??

@pegasusted2504

4 жыл бұрын

He just said it differently is all. It was just the idea saying to a lady when chatting her up about being "many tongued" that he used instead. Means roughly the same ;~)

@izzojoseph2

4 жыл бұрын

😂😂 Talented tongue

@abydosianchulac2

4 жыл бұрын

He danced around it by ending the sentence with "advanced linguist" instead, to avoid anyone getting their knickers in a bunch.

My professors at university told me I had a talent for learning languages because I was not 'married' to English. I studied Russian/Mandarin/Arabic, and later added Spanish (having had 3 years of Latin in High School). My son, who is fond of all things Japanese, tried for 4 years to learn the language. However, he aced his SAT in English, and could never seem to get comfortable in a truly foreign language (Latin was fairly easy for him). In studying Structural Anthropology, I learned that the language one learns as a child can give a person a slightly different version of reality from children brought up in other languages (especially concerning the nature of time). So perhaps polyglots are those best able to unshackle their minds from the 'limitations' of their mother tongue, and able to perceive reality in many different ways simultaneously. Reminds me of how Bach must have perceived his world....

My dad traveled in his youth. Said learning a language is simple go there get a girlfriend in a month you got it. He spoke Danish Chek Greek Italian Turkish and profanity. You knew it was dad's bed time when having a few as he'd roll 3 or 4 together in a sentence an wait for a answer oblivious to the fact. Love you pops see you in a bit.

@ynntari2775

3 жыл бұрын

"it's easy, just get a girlfriend" Oh boy

“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.” - Ludwig Wittgenstein

@faithlesshound5621

3 жыл бұрын

He limited it further by ruling many things "offside" which remained important to him, but which he would not talk (and think?) about.

Ahh the irony of Mr Whistler talking about the whistling language.

@Riylo

4 жыл бұрын

Irony? Seems you're still working on learning your first language.

@Pamplmoose

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah I was surprised he passed on that joke opportunity

@hylianchriss

4 жыл бұрын

There's nothing ironic about that. It's a coincidence, one of the most clear cut examples I have ever seen. It's a little interesting however, that on a video discussing where the limit of "knowing" a language should or could be drawn, you make such a big mistake in (I assume) your first or second language. As did the 72 people that up-voted your comment. Humorous

@pierreabbat6157

4 жыл бұрын

Ironic, not. Cobaltic, maybe.

@brianspenst1374

4 жыл бұрын

Hey kids, we found the pedant who decided to lecture me on word meanings instead of just appreciating a simple joke! Woohoo!

In many countries it is normal to speak 3 languages. Local language, English and a foreign language. And in countries with several local languages, additional languages ​​are common. For example: Frisian, Dutch, English and German.

@doomi4055

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Holland I am from Saudi Arabia

@silsed

4 жыл бұрын

Plus in Italy, the local dialact that may be a language by its own

@izzojoseph2

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, met a dude from Central Africa ~ I forget which country but near Ivory Coast ~ he spoke 7 distinct languages.

@barquerojuancarlos7253

4 жыл бұрын

@@izzojoseph2 ... Among the indigenous people of South America, speaking 3 or 4 other distinct languages is not rare.

@dejanklincov1798

3 жыл бұрын

In Serbia additional languages is 14.

I wish I could speak more languages and was decent at learning them

@Potatotenkopf

4 жыл бұрын

Sonó bambino, heh Italian is funni

@davidshillaker7578

4 жыл бұрын

My first language is English, and my grammar sucks. I forget my French over summer, and I am currently trying to learn Tgallic so I can flirt with a girl.

@Terri_MacKay

4 жыл бұрын

I was horrible at French in school. I just wasn't good at retaining. One of my sisters definitely has the knack, though. Besides English and French, she studied Russian at university, took a night class to learn Latin "for fun", taught herself Spanish and Italian, and is currently teaching herself German. Yeah... she's the genius in the family

@Trefender1

4 жыл бұрын

@Les Brown @TerryMacKay French proved difficult to learn for me in school. I took a Spanish class in university and wasn't very good at it too. But, then I learned Japanese. What I've found from my own experience and researching language learning is that there are two keys to success in learning a new language: 1) Really wanting to learn the language. (Why I never learned French? I didn't care to.) 2 ) Using the language. (Why I never learned Spanish? I only used it in class.) I eventually learned Japanese because I wanted to learn it for myself, and I use it every day. I don't think it really takes genius or anything of the sort as there are areas on Earth where everybody is multilingual. It just takes time, effort, commitment, and interest/desire. If you want to learn a language for yourself you can be successful at it without much skill/talent, but it will take time and commitment.

@ayya26

4 жыл бұрын

The answer is TPRS. Comprehensible input is a great way to learn languages. Look up Stephen Krashen if you wanna know more about language acquisition.

I speak two languages English and American English.

@andrewolson5471

4 жыл бұрын

I understand both, but I can only speak American English. Sort of... Allegedly.

@LordShenanigan

4 жыл бұрын

English is actually three languages wearing a trench coat so you speak six.

@vilhelm697

4 жыл бұрын

I speak English, Español, und Deutsch

@Quacka

3 жыл бұрын

I speak British English, American English, Australian English

@gabrielandreassen7353

3 жыл бұрын

I speak English, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish and a little old norse.

speaking more than 2 languages is the norm in northern europe.

@LiamNI

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, cos your second language is usually English, the same as the rest of the world.....

@mariposahorribilis

4 жыл бұрын

@@LiamNI May be true in the touristy areas, but here in rural Spain I found French to be the language I had in common with my first few friends. (I'm British.)

@Sea-zu4bj

4 жыл бұрын

Liam NIre unless you’re in the US or UK

@kendallroys

4 жыл бұрын

yeah like pretty much the rest of the world

@ikad5229

3 жыл бұрын

@@mariposahorribilis Up to the 80/90s French was taught at school before English, that's why many adults can speak decent French but not English.

My favorite multilingual story is from 1 of my coworkers from when I worked retail in college. He was talking to a couple in English and the couple decided to discuss amongst themselves in Spanish. One of them said something that was wrong about the item and he interjected in Spanish correcting them. They then swapped over to French and he responded to their comment about it being rude of him to 'eavesdrop' on their conversation that was taking place 3 feet away from him (his response was just an apology for any perceived rudeness).

I can't decide if your videos are more entertaining, or more informative. Seriously, wonderful stuff, and this was a particularly good episode!

Wonderful video Simon . Keep it up 👍👌👌

You do have to kind of wonder how killer Simon is at Trivia night at the local watering hole?

What do you call someone who speaks 3 languages? - Trilingual What do you call someone who speaks 2 languages? - Bilingual What do you call someone who speaks 1 language? - American

@BichaelStevens

4 жыл бұрын

Ignoring England and France, eh?

@NC-ij9rb

4 жыл бұрын

Oooohhhhh!!!!!! 😂😂😂😂

@willworkswood3215

4 жыл бұрын

Hey! I'm an American! I speak English y hablo Español tambien.😃

@alessbritish228

4 жыл бұрын

​@@willworkswood3215 It's actually "también" and you should not capitalize "español". I don't recommend you to mix languages that way, at least wait until the next sentence to switch up.

@Cozette420

4 жыл бұрын

That's us. Underacheievers

I feel like the lives of most child prodigies are often doomed to be mediocre and/or tragic in the end. To become a genius something's got to give. Everything has an opportunity cost.

@vincevvn

4 жыл бұрын

Nah it’s because when the world is stupid you don’t really fit in anywhere and can’t relate to most idiots.

@Pehmokettu

4 жыл бұрын

Many child prodigies are in the autism spectrum and that often leads to many problems in their lives. Autistic person can be a very talented at something but at the same time may lack basic skills that are needed with living a 'normal' life.

@DrSeanKennedy

4 жыл бұрын

Source? Life's not a zero-sum game. You can be born a genius; no sacrifice required. No opportunity cost required (cause life isn't an economy).

@scottmiller4295

4 жыл бұрын

children need a balance in their lives, male female perspectives, fun and work ones, and so on. his parents took him year one and made him study work and behave to parade around, he never or rarely interacted with other children or got to be a kid himself. the more you get off a good rounded balanced upbringing for a child the worst things will generally go off the rails. turned this poor kid into a fucking communist because his parents mentally abused him in essence, they were trying to build a prodigy at the expense of their child and his life and love. they forced that choice upon him because children have limited agency. experiment or not they should have been able to recognize.

@DJSockmonkeyMusic

4 жыл бұрын

What was the opportunity cost of having a poop this morning?

Thank you to you and your team for the immense effort you put into your channels. You make learning such a wonderful experience and I appreciate all of your content!

Those parents are absolutely horrid. Imagine having a kid just to prove your theories of learning right. How disgusting. The fact he didn’t off both of them is purely mercy on his part, coz he definitely could have gotten away with it. Alice from Luther anyone?

@tckgkljgfl7958

3 жыл бұрын

I like all the ignorance where this coming from :D

@weckar

3 жыл бұрын

There is a not uncommon belief that as long is a child is physically cared for, how it is raised is up to the parents. The are effectively property to be used as will.

@semaj_5022

3 жыл бұрын

Just a complete lack of empathy. Like yes it's your child and how you raise him is up to you, to a point anyway, but basic human decency and concern for your kids wellbeing have to be totally absent to see your own child as nothing more than a test subject. Absolute narcissists the both of them.

@seb______

3 жыл бұрын

@@tckgkljgfl7958 what ignorance? 😐

laoshu50500: Enters the chat

@Kcm836

4 жыл бұрын

He was the first one who came to mind. He’s amazing!

@isaidgooddaysir2585

4 жыл бұрын

Came here looking for this comment. Around 50 if I remember right. Amazing.

@Kelly101Girl

4 жыл бұрын

Yup he was the first person I thought of when I came across this video

@Perririri

4 жыл бұрын

ree

@georgegoddard6132

4 жыл бұрын

Laoshu " time to level up "

Same day this came out, Luca Lamperillo made his 100k subscribers. He speaks about 10 languages fluently.

@jonk1370

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I love him. Luca is an actual polyglot who is basically fluent in 10 languages, but there are so many phonies who speak 2 or 3 fluently and have a couple of phrases memorized in 20 different languages

I used to work with a woman when I was in high school who was a polyglot she spoke English, several other European languages, Hindi, and many local Indian dialects. She could read an write in many of them to. She was a wonderful woman to work with. I haven’t seen her in over 15 years, but I still think about her often.

I remember this commercial for a Nintendo DS game whenever I hear the word 'polyglot'- Interviewer: Are you a polyglot? Applicant: (many rushing thoughts) I only have one wife, sir, but I'm open to more

@ynntari2775

3 жыл бұрын

didn't get it

I noticed the former head of the UN, Kofi Annan, didn't wear a headset when several languages at the UN was being spoken. He did put it on a few times though, but didn't wear it long.

Simmon, you should definitely learn the whistling language on the count of your last name. Great video as always, it was greatly informative.

Love the channels, self proclaimed business legend here! You guys should hire me to go over your audio! Those S's grind my gears...

My Spanish teacher in Secondary school, who was an Italian immigrant, spoke 14 languages. My maternal grandparents emigrated from Lithuania, paternal France. They passed down exactly 0 of those mother tongues to their children. My mum cannot speak Lithuanian, nor could my dad speak French. It’s honestly cruel. If you have the GIFT of knowing more than one language, TEACH it to your children. I know exactly 0 Spanish parents who don’t teach their child Spanish and English at the SAME TIME so their child grows up fully bilingual.

"The most boring book ever written", I assume this was before Atlas Shrugged was published.

@Claytone-Records

4 жыл бұрын

Sera, I have never understood the continued fascination with Atlas Shrugged or the Fountainhead. And I have read all kinds of fascinating tomes.

@timothyneiswander3151

4 жыл бұрын

I have an unabridged dictionary that is far more entertaining than Atlas Shrugged. Oh the plot twists! Something as complicated as a cat only gets a few sentences of definition but an over used simple word like "the", gets several paragraphs of explanation.

@jonbodhi

4 жыл бұрын

When I finished ‘Atlas Shrugged,’ my first reaction was: ‘that was a lot of word!’

@ieatgremlins

3 жыл бұрын

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

@scottshanahan3827

3 жыл бұрын

I'm pretty libertarian in my views and since that book is so highly recommended by libertarians I decided to give it a read. Biggest waist of time I've ever experienced. Not only will it bore you to tears, there is not a single likable character in the book, including the protagonists.

Love the content, mang! Although, this one was weird for me. Felt like I’d seen it a few times before, tbh.

As always... Very interesting. I really want to read a book about transit transfers now.

My grandma was a polyglot and I guess my grandpa was a hyper-polyglot :) it was fun growing up hearing them converse with each other in multiple languages so that we grandkids could not follow along.

That was the longest "i I don't know" i ever heard....allegedly

Hi Simon, I enjoy all of your videos over all of your channels but I’m super intrigued by how you find the time to host 4+ channels at a time? Do you ever have any time off?

lmao, I too have forgotten that I was watching a video about ppl learning languages when you took us on a William journey hahahah

Whenever I hear of people who claim they can speak like 4 or more different languages I tend to question just _how well_ they can speak all of them. What is the minimum number of vocabulary needed in order to qualify your claim? And how often do you find yourself using the wrong word from a different language than the the one that you're trying to converse in? I assume this can happen quite often.

@andreasghb8074

4 жыл бұрын

I would think being able to carry on a simple conversation is minimum. I speak 3 fluently (not the same as perfectly) and have a decent knowledge of two more. I know words and phrases in others, like Italian and Japanese, but have no business claiming to "speak" or "know" them. As for using words from the wrong language, I speak Spanish fluently and manage in Portuguese and French. On one hand Spanish helps a lot in learning the other two, but I do find myself interjecting a Spanish word or literally translating a Spanish phrase and getting puzzled looks.

@watsonwrote

4 жыл бұрын

Same. I consider myself bilingual (English and French) because I can enjoy media and my conduct daily life in those languages. I can read spanish okayish and understand basic Japanese phrases and common kanji, but I can't conduct my life in either or fully grasp a work of media without assistance. I get really skeptical when I hear people say "I know 6 languages" or whatever because knowing the theoreticals of a language and actually experiencing the world through it are different. I'm learning Vietnamese right now and I understand the principals of its grammar and other features, but I'm not able to see the world through the language yet, and when I get there I'll consider it one of my languages. But maybe I just suck at acquiring languages, idk. If I know vocabulary and grammar rules for a language I still don't feel like I can actually use it as a language instead a collection of facts

@chiiku4639

4 жыл бұрын

*cries in "unable to speak Ukrainian cuz he always uses Russian words that don't exist in the Ukrainian language"*

@ynntari2775

3 жыл бұрын

we should talk about speaking languages as a spectrum, and not as binary values of "yes or no"

@JessieBanana

3 жыл бұрын

I think it depends on where that person is from. There are people who are from cities and countries that are intersections of many nations and therefore they actually use all four languages they speak regularly and they have a need for them. It's not just an academic pursuit where they might get rusty or not have as much working knowledge as they think they do. As for using the wrong word. I actually think that happens more commonly in related languages versus the number of languages. The first second language I learned, aside from Spanish which I grew up with and I am terrible Spanglish speaking child, was German. German is relatively easy for English speakers and I was happy when I chose it in college. My mistake was thinking that adding Dutch would be even easier and allow me to watch my favorite soap without subtitles, I also really liked the sound of it (so deep), all I did though was give myself a headache. To this day I question vocabulary I used to be very confident in and I never became fluent in Dutch. Doesn't help my bff moved away who is a native German speaker.

Three languages - overachiever? Laughs in European, specifically in Swiss and Belgian.

@Cipher_Paul

4 жыл бұрын

And Luxembourg

@dejanklincov1798

3 жыл бұрын

And Serbia.

Ram Ram sir ji nice video aap aise hi gyan wardhak or mast video banate rahe or Humara gyan wardhan karte rahe or muskurate raho. Bhagwan aap ko or aap ki family ko or sabhi ko acchi helth de or taraki de thanks.

I've been meaning to ask you if you were interested in doing something language related on one of your myriad channels, I'm nowhere near as talented as the people in this video but as someone who is technically a polyglot myself I'm naturally interested in the combo of language and the ol' Simon's legendary razzle dazzle!

"A whistle can travel upto two miles..." that would be very handy in my area, they would be able to gossip a lot quicker....if their dentures didn't fall out while they were doing it.

@duanesamuelson2256

4 жыл бұрын

Yodeling was used for the same reason..the distance it could be heard

@kingfuzzy2

4 жыл бұрын

theres also an extinct whistle language thats utterly fascinating i beleive theres a recording somewhere around of the last fluent speaker

Pick up line, Advanced linguist? That was the PERFECT place for cunning linguist!

@mariomashi840

4 жыл бұрын

😂

@michaelleahy123

4 жыл бұрын

out------->

@frogstereighteeng5499

4 жыл бұрын

Ehh, not to be a pendant, but speaking many languages does not make a linguist. A polyglot for sure, but linguistics is by definition an academic science about language, not just speaking them.

@willworkswood3215

4 жыл бұрын

👍🤣

@Perririri

4 жыл бұрын

ree

Great clip

Honestly I love that these videos have become a collection of loosely connected facts. I never know what I'm going to learn!

Child geniuses need to be allowed to be CHILDREN Also, what is that mug?

@CrisMind

4 жыл бұрын

It's an Enron mug a Business Blaze subscriber sent him because he jokes about it in a video.

@DoctorX17

4 жыл бұрын

@@CrisMind huzzah for knowledge! I thought it might have been Enron, but wasn't sure, lol

@discogoth

3 жыл бұрын

They certainly do need to be allowed to be children! But they also need to be challenged. When I was in K12 education, I wasn't challenged. I ended up chronically bored and got into lots of trouble because of it. I wish I had been in a stimulating environment rather than intellectually stunted in an effort to give me a "normal" childhood. Now, as a college senior applying to PhD programs, I have no idea how to learn because I was never given anything difficult enough to force me to learn how.

@DoctorX17

3 жыл бұрын

@@discogoth yeah, I've known a few people who weren't challenged enough either and ended up getting in trouble out of boredom. Unfortunately I feel like in most cases, smart kids either are pushed way too hard or not nearly enough...

@faithlesshound5621

3 жыл бұрын

@@DoctorX17 Most traditional societies saw smart kids as a threat, and the worst cases of smartness were sent off to be abused by men in funny clothes and forced to memorise meaningless drivel by the yard. Once the cleverness had been beaten down, they could make themselves useful to the rich, e.g. by counting their money for them. Families were usually able to control cleverness in girls, but some of them had to be sent to convents and later boarding schools. There was a sea-change in Western countries in the 19th century, when the Chinese system of exams for mandarins was adapted to select clever boys (and later girls) for the new technical jobs and professions, and instead there was a new moral panic about "mental deficiency," which had been recognised before only in extreme cases. If you look at the correspondence columns of Mensa, there are still many accounts of kids being pulled down and humiliated for being smart, or told, "It's not good for a girl to be clever," whereas sporting or musical gifts are seen as things to be fostered.

My mom when she gets angry.

Underrated channel

Speaking 3 languages, I found work in a hotel front desk for a while. It was great meeting people from all over the globe. I had a co-worker there who spoke 6. I was jealous. One day, a guest came in who spoke around 10 or more. I was mindblown.

Bartemius "Barty" Crouch SR.? 200+ languages, including Mermish, Gobbledegook and Troll. LOL! :)

10 year old cousin: “I know 4 languages” Me: “And I know how to use google translate which makes me fluent if every language”

@staypositive4358

3 жыл бұрын

Try using google translate to hold a meaningful conversation.

@nesiachan4534

3 жыл бұрын

@@staypositive4358 its hard ill tell you that

6:05 I think you meant "prodigious" son. "Prodigal" has a different meaning entirely.

Prepare to feel unaccomplished

"if you speak 3 languages, you're an over achiever" laughs in Indian

I learned and forgot 3 languages. I could speak French, then forgot it Then Spanish Then Italian

@ksspeedblindfoldedsolving843

3 жыл бұрын

Y planeas reaprenderlos?

@izzojoseph2

3 жыл бұрын

@@ksspeedblindfoldedsolving843 ~ if you asked if I plan on studying again, no. Well, maybe Italian. Otherwise, really, I forgot all the languages.

Red cups from Business Blaze make it into Today I Found Out haha Excellent video anyway!

Related question: Who's the champ for rapid language acquisition to native fluency?

10:45 - "Wait, this isn't Biographics?"

“If you speak 3 you’re an overachiever and everyone hates you” as a bilingual Swedish girl who had to endure foreign language classes with British students I can only say “YEP”

@blueswan7655

3 жыл бұрын

Language and Programming Channel which languages do you know?

@wolfzmusic9706

3 жыл бұрын

well in england we teach it pretty badly cuz the government doesn’t prioritise language learning.

Thank you Simon

My oldest daughter can speak, write & understand seven languages. She is a speech pathologist. The interesting thing about this is that she dreams in these different languages.

Have a cousin that speaks 18 languages. Born in 29 Palms, Ca. Was a translator for the navy, Japanese was one of his best. But Gaelic & Old Gaelic (can read, write and has published 3 books on it) is his specialty.

What Chinese Chinese isn't a language are we talking mandarin or Cantonese?

@michaelleahy123

4 жыл бұрын

WU TANG🦇🥋

@celiabrickell2500

4 жыл бұрын

My understanding is that there are 54 different ethnic groups in China, therefore I would suppose 54 different languages. When I hear someone say that they speak Chinese I assume they mean Mandarin.

@mirae9163

4 ай бұрын

​@@celiabrickell2500There're 302 languages in China, if ethnic divides language, then there're 302 ethnic in China.

It would be great if you made a video that's really about polyglottism. It's really fascinating how the polyglot community has grown through the internet. There's an annual polyglot conference. And there are many interesting living polyglots you could focus on. This video was nice, but really went off topic.

I didn't think I would like it based on the title but I like the channel so I clicked anyway and I enjoyed it thoroughly

Generally, people learn as many languages as they need to.

"If you speak 3 languages, you are an over achivever and everyone hates you." If Simon was where I'm from, he couldn't even graduate from elementary school.

@Harriet1822

4 жыл бұрын

Holland?

@yy-qj8ym

4 жыл бұрын

I also just thought about the entirety of Europe... Idk dude we all speak our native language, english and learn at least one more in school.

@salmannazeer2688

4 жыл бұрын

India?

@AzurasCry

4 жыл бұрын

Same lol it was mandatory to learn English, Arabic, French, Mandarine, Bengali in my Elementary school. And then you could also know Urdu, Hindi and Farsi from out of school experience (tv, radio, socializing, etc.). Latin, Greek and German are something that you may pick up during studies in Highschool or higher. I studied all of those languages and learnt Japanese (a little in highschool and more when took some classes in college), also Polish (from some friends during high school). There was a whistle language I knew that many people knew from that region as well, but I suck at whistling, so I used to be able to understand but couldn’t whistle it. I also did learn basic sign language a while back as well. Sadly, I forgot most of those languages nowadays because I don’t really use any of these language outside of English. Hell, sometimes I feel like I forget English as well. Lol Math could be a language I suppose, it has its own structure and symbols.

Tbh, while this is probably mostly to do with being sleep deprived rn, I legit teared up during several points of William's story. I just feel so sad for him and the way the public decided to treat him and totally misunderstand him 😞 I hope he's found peace in death; he's now this week's reminder to always be cognizant of how many people I pass that likely desperately need a small offering of kindness from anyone at all, and that it should be me if I can 🤍

I admire people that can learn many languages. I took a few years of spanish and german in school, the idea of being able to go anywhere and talk to anyone is a powerfull thing. There are college degrees for language studies where people will learn several of them, those are some smart people with great social skills. I've been told it gets easier once you learn one from each language family. You start to see the similarities and how they all connect together.

Hot college women visiting the Canary Islands for spring break: "Quit whistling at me!"

@froggybee1924

4 жыл бұрын

What

@kylezmcgee455

4 жыл бұрын

Canary islands have a whistling language that's dying out. I forget the name of it, off hand right now. I saw a youtube video on it a few years ago, there are several places in the world that there is a whistling language.

@tiki_trash

4 жыл бұрын

If those women only knew the true meaning of those those whistles...

@MelanaC

4 жыл бұрын

Kylez McGee did you watch this video?

@Astronic

4 жыл бұрын

I got that reference!

Would like to know where Simon would rank in the greatest narrators of all time.

@patti441

4 жыл бұрын

Yes !

@joanbowden7634

4 жыл бұрын

#1 of course!

@Mystictiki

4 жыл бұрын

#1 He can do something as serious as the channels Biographics and Geographics. He can also do things like Business Blaze.

@Monosekist

4 жыл бұрын

Right behind David Attenborough and Morgan Freeman.

@DerptyDerptyDUM

4 жыл бұрын

#69!! ....sorry, I'm a 44yo chick with a 12yo brain. 😁

Lol, “I forgot what we were making a video about”... me too man. Me too

I've always been under the impression 7 is the limit a person can retain.

Weird. You try to learn Mandarin, Russian, Spanish, and Vietnamese on KZread, and this is what the algorithm recommends you. 😅

Sooo...with Italian, English and French under my belt, I'm an overachiever and everyone hates me? What if I told you that I'm also very much interested in sign language and that I'm going to take a German language class? ... I'll show myself out.🤣

@azuregriffin1116

4 жыл бұрын

German is English minus French, with extra weirdness.

@innahaapa1314

4 жыл бұрын

German is Swedish with some extra weirdness IMO. Go for it, Brina F! I speak Swedish, English, German, Japanese and Spanish in addition to my native Finnish and studied Latin and French in school. Now I'm learning Chinese. I must be an overachiever! X-)

@Sea-zu4bj

4 жыл бұрын

You’re right, everyone does hate you

@brinaf2857

4 жыл бұрын

@@Sea-zu4bj 🤷‍♀️

@brinaf2857

4 жыл бұрын

@@innahaapa1314 you are truly an awful person 🤣

It’s really hard to qualify, as you pointed out, because it’s not just a matter of *how many* but also a matter of *how well* you know them. My wife and I have been speaking mostly Mandarin at home (I’m a Texan), but after 14 years, I’m still learning it (as time permits).

You should do a video on the Piraha language! Communication via whistle, hum, or spoken word. No sense of mood, tense, or number, and defies everything Chomsky laid out that makes a language a language.

“I personally believe we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.” ― Jane Wagner

@Potatotenkopf

4 жыл бұрын

* Laughs in EmpLemon

@mjfan97p

4 жыл бұрын

No, we didn't. Like with anything else in life, it was through automatic induction and we stumbled upon it by accident. We never developed or invented anything. Watch Jacque Fresco, and you'll see how we can't reason.

Why do ppl comment before watching the video

@migueldelmazo5244

4 жыл бұрын

I want to respond to this, but it's hard with the video playing in the background. :)

@Perririri

4 жыл бұрын

Because they are normies who constantly use old memes

9:00 That book sounds like something I'd be interested in. 🤣 Endless description of micro-details to explicate a massive integrated system of nuanced differences with the possibility of the adventure and discovery of travel is right up my alley. I'm lucky to live near a library with a copy.

@AaronF2112

4 жыл бұрын

Do you really have nothing better to do with your time?

I love language and culture. I'd love to hear what you guys speak/know. I speak English and ASL (American Sign Language) fluently. I know Spanish conversationally (but I'm not comfortable calling myself fluent). I am learning Japanese and Shuwa (Japanese sign language) right now, although Shuwa is unfortunately not considered a language by Japan. While taking classes for my associate's degree, I had a number of classes with this guy who was 17. At the time, he was fluent in English, German, Japanese, ASL, Korean, Braille, and Spanish. He also knew Russian and Chinese very well. We would test him by having him translate random sentences into these languages right in front of us. Then we google translated them to make sure he was accurate. It was crazy how good he was at remembering languages. I think he is going to Gallaudet University now. I know he wants to be an interpreter for people who are both deaf and blind.

@captainchaos1311

2 жыл бұрын

I don’t know much languages but i speak English and i am learning latin although i am no where near a fluent speaker of latin and i can just do conversations. I also speak some german but i stopped learning it for latin. Its my goal to speak 3 languages in life those people in the video make it look easy…….

The art to being a Polyglot is to get back to basics, and learn to pictorially first then adding different vocabularies to them... So you are able to speak more languages. Indeed, once you are able to forget about what a language is, and let your brain just do it, you find learning other languages easier. On the whistling language, sailors used to communicate by whistling; when not on a ship they would help with stage work, doing the rigging... It's why it's bad luck to whistle in a theatre, if your whistling sent a confusing message to a Rigger you might find a light or weight on your head!!

@staypositive4358

3 жыл бұрын

None of this makes any sense.

Today I Found Out Simon schedules his videos to go public at 4:20 bc he's an absolute memer xP

The key question should really be, "how fluent do you need to be to be considered fluent?". How well do all these polyglots actually speak their 50 languages? Being able to hold a basic conversation is very nice, it helps a great deal when you travel, it can solve some sticky situations too. But is that enough?

You mentioned that there are dialects which may count as different languages, so I would like to present: Atlanta, Georgia vs Brooklyn, New York. 🙂

6:06 Prodigal: _adjective_ : "spending money or resources freely and recklessly; wastefully extravagant." Prodigious _adjective_ : "remarkably or impressively great in extent, size, or degree. " Precocious _adjective_ : "(of behavior or ability) indicative of early development."

@JohnSmith-ws7fq

4 жыл бұрын

Prodigal can also mean "having on a lavish scale" (cf. OED) - such as prodigal talent. Granted, "prodigal son" is associated with a spendthrift and the Parable of the Prodigal Son. Also "having on a lavish scale" sonhood doesn't make much sense.

Learned the most useful 2. English and Spanish. I'm a cunning linguist.

@mashedtomato2079

3 жыл бұрын

I know english as I am born and raised in the USA and my parents tongue, Punjabi, from which I can also understand neighboring Indian languages such as Hindi, dorgi, and pahari. I guess the perk of keeping Indian heritage is that you can speak many languages

I find this really fascinating because my father is actually hyper polyglot. He speaks eight languages fluently but knows a total of 15. He reads and writes in 4 (English, Hebrew, German, and Yiddish) his first language is Hungarian. I have watched him actively learn a language and I am going to say that it is fascinating!

Very interesting!!! If I had a wish come true if wish to understand, speak, and read ANY LANGUAGE!!!!