If YouTube Polyglots Were Honest

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[nichtsistkostenlos]

"I speak 30 languages", means: I speak one language to a C1 level and two languages to a B1 level and I know how to say "How are you?" in 27 languages with a foreign accent so deep you can barely understand me.

[PlzCamDown]

I watched a "polyglot meets another polyglot" video once and literally all they did was introduce themselves in like 21 languages.

[UwU-xkcx]

As a spanish speaker, I like how in spanish you didn't sound fluent at all but in Portuguese and Italian you totally sounded like a native spanish speaker imitating italian and brasilian accents

[alicja.]

As a pole I am genuinely impressed by your polish speaking skills. I have to admit that I haven’t seen a foreigner speaking so fluent polish in a long time.

[chronofactor]

It's kinda funny how he speaks spanish with an american accent but goes full blown mario bros with his "italian"

[PASTRAMIKick]

The real chads are the ones who say "Umm yeah I know a little" and then proceed to speak a language more fluently than the native speaker.

[martinenyx-filmstuff]

The worst thing is that these “YouTube polyglots” who claim they can speak 17 languages fluently encourage the myth that mastering a language is EASY. It’s NOT. Very few people COMPLETELY master one or more languages, and it takes constant practice to not forget other languages you know. I speak three languages and I STILL occasionally make mistakes when speaking them, including in my NATIVE one, lol. Respect for real polyglots ✌️

[incoocat]

One of these 'polyglots' went to a shop, where the shopkeeper was speaking my native language. After the initial bs sentences, like 'I have friends who speak your language' and 'I've been studying this language for 6 months' the lady replied and said how nice this is. Then she asked something and the guy didn't answer her, but kept saying some completely unrelated things. She then politely asked something else in a very basic way and the guy yet again didn't answer her question, but said something unrelated bs. She became uncomfortable with the situation and wanted to cut it short, but the guy kept going on and butchered my language even further.

I commend if someone learns languages, it really helps breaking barriers, but please stop pretending your skills are incredible, when in reality all you do is just memorize a few sentences in different languages. It's nice and all that, but it doesn't make you a polyglot.

[glatres]

It's really funny how his "Spanish with Italian accent" pronuntiation is better than the regular Spanish

[EllaEllaAudios]

"I learned to say "watashi wa alice desu" through Google translate, I am now a master at the Spanish language" - YouTube polyglots

[LOL-cringe]

As a brazillian, the part where you speak in spanish to pretend you're speaking in portuguese is 100% accurate

[ShadowChief]

I feel like I've stumbled into a parody of a community of people that I never even knew existed lmao

[ruelongcha]

as a native chinese speaker the botched accent and weird phrases followed by “I speak chinese with NATIVE fluency” was way too accurate😂

[ANN-ughd]

The Indonesian one was so accurate, also the Albanian got me dead.

[turnkey_hole]

The most mind-blowing thing I've learned while learning a second language is that on the continuum of proficiency, anybody ahead of you sounds like they have fantastic fluency, accent, and vocabulary and anyone behind you sounds obviously off.

So like... If you don't speak a language, you have absolutely no basis for evaluating how well some dude trying to sell you some course speaks whatever language he wants to teach you.

[LOL-cringe]

To be serious for a second, what really fucks me off about these 'polyglots' is not the amount of languages they've learnt but the lack of honesty about how many they've forgotten. It's a skill like playing an instrument or a sport. You have to practise or you get rusty and forget things. To keep a language up and not forget it you need to use it every day. How the hell can you practise 20 languages every day?

[slawero]

Wow, your Polish was impeccable. I'm impressed. As a Polish native speaker I can totally attest his accent is indistinguishable from that of native speakers.

[lucminax]

The Brazilian Portuguese part activated my fight or flight reflexes

[JorgeLourenco]

So accurate, I once argued the same thing in a “polyglot” channel and all hell broke loose. Imagine me, being a Portuguese native, having someone telling me that the guy was talking Portuguese and that I did not know anything about it.

[migrantmel]

Loved this. As someone that speaks Spanish and worked reaaaally hard to get good at it, I found myself feeling really demotivated by videos of 'I learned 34302 languages in 10 seconds'. Also I found that actually being genuinely immersed in a language and culture was really emotionally taxing (not being able to make friends, not feeling like I had a personality or myself), and that was already being at like a B2, C1 level! But according to these polyglots they're connecting with everyone everywhere!