Teen Speaks Over 20 Languages

a lot of it my lover - come on whooshing wait hi taller is it you movie the governing capital ki Samui common I'm del applications Sasha who say mama well I feel that language gives you something with which you can connect to another person objects Kitab you better be happy to get you get up with a childhood nervously uh-huh hey or miss miss can I write another good never saw was what was written I want it harp about his own life okay according to this I would never station yes each language is in many ways an expression of how one society or culture thinks I feel that when I start to speak foreign languages a lot of times I become a bit of a different person perhaps I say things that I wouldn't necessarily say in English perhaps I'm more deferential to others or perhaps a more upfront about what I say but yet nobody Gian all right come on madam madam okay yeah consume it yeah team G team watch every other watching pre Atma yeah it could have we polyglot is a word that comes from two Greek roots poly and gloss or glottis uh which together means many tongues many languages and it just refers to anyone who speaks three to four languages or more at a pretty high level the term hyper polyglot that that's the people who have a commitment to learning and maintaining a lot of languages most of them really put in a lot of work on it and take pride in knowing these languages nah could you play yongcheol uh what to the Buddha law damn sure we're gonna get watch an jokey aha now one thing I'm really comfortable having a conversation are more or less any topic in French Arabic Hebrew and Farsi I think maybe a tear down would be Chinese German and Russian I've done the fair amount of Latin and Greek in school but that's obviously a different skill range for dead languages I'm pretty comfortable speaking in languages like you know Hindi or oh do Indonesian with a little bit of practice I feel you know confident again in languages like Turkish for example or you know my Italian is not so great but I feel like I can understand it pretty well and then their languages are a little bit more dormant or that I haven't studied for a while languages such as Ojibwe or Yiddish or Wolof or Hausa and then languages that I'm more or less a beginner in you know such as Japanese and you know Dutch couple others the languages that we speak as a family it's really not that impressive as you and I studied French for many many years so we can understand French people who are slowed down incredibly I lived in Hong Kong for a while I studied cantonese but studying 20 hours a week for a summer I didn't make anywhere near the progress that Tim made studying 20 hours a week for example Persia come on Kate how was this coming back she has her get a pen and Farsi you family done it for her hanging for us in North America we mostly learn one language as we're growing up and that language gets to be so good that it interferes with our learning of it languages Tim donors talents in the American context are extremely unusual particularly at his young age the hyperpolyglots one tends to hear about in the world are older as a room so coming up with people who have started really in high school doing this extremely rare yo ah yummy night you're mine you're mine I okay Tim she is passionate about learning languages and for him this is not just a hobby and basically his way of life he actually spends most of his waking hours learning languages Tomodachi yoga Annie and Nina Hannukah Hannukah I find that most of the time when I'm starting a language one of most important things to do is have a lot of audio input so I generally start out with any sort of series and I'll try to just absorb the language as much as possible I think by repeating to yourself over and over it's a really good way to Train tim will watch movies with so many movies in Farsi and mood isn't Arabic watching TV shows or movies is really helpful in any kind of language learning because it exposes you to the normal rate of speech and language and maybe a more colloquial register than you get in the textbook I think it trains you also to be able to comprehend a lot more you know I find that when I start a new language and I start watching TV in it after comfortable enough maybe I'll understand four or five words out of ten and then that really helps because that bleeds over into conversation so I think watching TV is really the the basis of learning in a lot of ways plus it's fun bubu did then the host lam ya'lam chin q been divorced over at upchuck I think the Internet has been absolutely crucial you know for me for learning languages anytime I have a new language I try to post a video of me speaking it with someone or just me delivering some kind of monologue to the camera and the responses I get a really helpful they show me you know which direction I should go and what I have to work on still what I've you know I've done well and that's fantastic um I mean you know uh which I think the great thing about living in New York is that you really can practice any language you want this is arguably the most linguistically diverse spot on Arthur bucco see pal no no no no it isn't pretty full senator good you know it personal only jet engine in issue of Sai Baba will Chester pala Somali Fela chippewa proven again just director circling all Medusa's the photo sick mess who for me there are plenty of things that are fascinating about languages primarily it's the fact that you know it's a bit of a history nerd you can see in any language the entire history of a people that's interactions with others for a while when I was around 12 and 13 I had a very big interest in learning about the Middle East especially the israeli-palestinian conflict so I thought that by learning a language I might be able to break through the wall that's been built around it a little bit after my bar mitzvah when I was 13 I started to teach myself Hebrew we took a sefolosha notion about the alien gate and it's certainly modest nation of Setsu after I learned Hebrew uh I thought that you know I maybe would be quite successful in teaching myself languages so after that I decided to try Arabic to get the other half of the equation in history of the Middle East this inexpensive keep it out I've had been say hey man listen Maserati well my country so no Cheryl squeeze Madame squeeze I feel that by studying languages by looking at their development by looking at what's old and what's new you gain a greater appreciation for society's values and for just it's its entire history it's something it's a little bit hard to communicate it may sound a bit disingenuous but that's sort of the breakthrough that I had in studying there's this idea that seems to circulate which is completely false that Americans don't like learning about other cultures Americans don't like learning foreign languages hello man yet licit it rational I'm placing philosophy Monsieur thing I hope that you know I can do my part to disprove that belief is a movie that Oscar the please yellow exactly more along the long portion nakulan oh man we Wow religion I think if you raise people with other languages you you open them up to foreign cultures to foreign ideas and again in the future you know the world that's increasingly globalized you give them you know a solid opportunity for more connections as they grow older there's a quote from Nelson Mandela which goes something like if you talk to a man in his second language you're talking to his brain if you talk to his mother language you're talking to his heart multi-seat eres a minute today inshallah inshallah ha what a giver hang it or did you walk to meet him from say I am my body shop his language for China he'll let me come a good office tada ok one thank you very much I'm 10 why I'm to prefer guada thinker atomistic Lincoln I don't think renege on Coney even since I can't thinker Allah

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Id: Km9-DiFaxpU

Length: 8min 54sec (534 seconds)

Published: Fri May 31 2013

Reddit Comments

[u/kimboslice11]

This dude lives in America, New York no less, he doesn't even bother trying to learn spanish? I feel like it would be a cake walk for him too. Still he is awesome.

[u/WillWalrus]

I only speak two, but they're like default so they don't count. :\

[u/RdMrcr]

He says that he learns words from hearing and not from reading but I highly doubt it... I noticed that he pronounces many Russian and Hebrew words like they are written but not actually spoken. Still a genius though, but I find it strange

[u/NS864962]

What anime is he watching?

[u/Brenden_w00t]

Learn his secret. Linguistics professors hate him!

[u/Gaglardi]

well, i should get back on dualingo

[u/[deleted]]

I can speak three languages, Polish, English and Italian. I didn't know knowing only three languages could clasify me as a polyglot. The more you know.

[u/[deleted]]

Stop fiddling with your glasses!

[u/Hocus_Fapus]

This is amazing. And this proves that you can do anything if you put your mind to it.