Top 10 FAKE Polyglot Tricks EXPOSED!!! You won't believe number 3

Some youtube polyglots are big fake phoneys. By popular demand, I show the top ten tricks youtube polyglots use to sound like they speak multiple languages. Multilingual, hyperpolyglot, international youtubers, beware.

[MarioAndreschak]

Every Polyglot Video on Youtube where they meet other Polyglots: "Hey! My Name is [name], I learned [language] when I was in [place], I have many friends who are speaking [language]. Yes, I like speaking [language] very much. Do you also speak [language]?" - "Oh yes, I learned [language] when I was in [place], I like speaking [language] a lot!"

[evillocust]

I have seen a few of those hyperpolyglots videos. I already suspected this kind of scam. As a native French i always realised theirs is almost always abysmal and covers only the basic stereotypical conversation sentences.

Thanks for the detailed review on this subjetc, quite interesting.

[ThAlEdison]

Yeah, Dutch is the language where if I see a tweet in that language, I'll be about 60% of the way through before realizing that I don't actually understand what I'm reading. It's a wild experience

[guillervz]

Actually, knowing how to answer stalling the conversation is a good trick to get to actually speak with people in their own language. Sometimes it buys you time until you get to figure out what they were just asking. It also helps a lot in oral language exams. So if you always have a good ironic reply to any question or a little joke prepared, you will come off as an interesting non native speaker. Especially if you work hard on your pronounciation. Of course, until you meet a linguist. They can tell. I am one myself.

[noahapollo]

I'm a Belgian linguistics/literature student and the French + Dutch caught me off guard, haha!!! Great video!

[Sapphireia]

I think number 1 and 3 are actually great tips to learn a language. Start with phrases you can actually use, instead of numbers, colors, weekdays and 15 different ways to greet someone.

[cavelupum]

In my opinion, it is very well that you state your credentials at the beginning of each video. Very few people possess the courage to do so, primarily because they cannot support their competence in language teaching. I often wonder why some people think they can teach a language. I ask what kind of training they've had, where they got their skills, and if their teaching skills are really good. I think that anyone who goes to YouTube to learn a language should ask themselves these questions before they start to trust a YouTuber. If these teachers don't share their qualifications right from the start, like you did in a good way, it's probably because they don't have any worth mentioning. Real YouTubers should openly show their courses and skills, letting students decide if they can trust them or not.

[esoes]

Internet polyglots be like "yeah i speak every language, but not polish". Why everybody goes with german, french, italian, spanish even freakin Hebrew but never polish I can't understand XD

[patrickdoherty]

I saw a video by some scheister who was bragging about how many languages he spoke. Funnily enough, he also has videos on how to invest money and even about what food you should be eating. Amazing how many areas of life someone can master!

[chilleroheftig]

if i dont train my school languages for years, my fluency deminishes so drastically, doesnt mean im not speaking it

[MadameSomnambule]

You know you're god tier at worldbuilding when a fictional language you created is now a language course on duolingo. Like, it's amazing how Klingon and Elvish were created and applied to canon so well. The Phantomile language in the Klonoa series, I don't think, was even fully thought out in that level of depth afaik, and that fictional language basically sounds like a mix between Japanese and something else.

[shakenbacon-vmeu]

There’s a white dude who ‘speaks’ Chinese (he probably does, I have no idea). Then he posted a vid where he learned fluent Tagalog in like a month. And I speak that. And omg no he did not. And yup, the Filipinos were just trying to be nice to him, esp since he had a camera pointed at them.

[delightful-ish]

I've had a couple of these shorts channels pushed on me in the past. They're fun at first until you realize they're basically always saying something very similar to "oh you speak x, I speak x".

[Adrian-xjdt]

"Frenchmen will tell you you're doing it wrong" is the most accurate thing I've ever heard.

[JasperSynth]

“You might as well speak Portuguese, which is Spanish spoken in French.”
I completely lost it.

[elgatorado]

Number 4, I studied Russian and accidentally learned 6 other Slavic language without Realizing I was side questing

[madaemon]

The hyperpolyglot interactions always remind me of the Kids in the Hall sketch "I Speak No English, " where the clerk speaks to the customer in perfect English: "I've learned this sentence phonetically, but I know nothing of its syntax or grammar. I assure you, I speak no English."

[holliswilliams]

The only language I have studied quite a lot and read a lot is Spanish. When I check these ''polyglot speaks 15 languages'' I normally go to the part where they speak Spanish and find that not only is it very basic, but they make a lot of mistakes that people generally stop once they leave absolute beginner level. The trick is simply that when you meet a new person the conversation is almost always exactly the same, so if you just learn how to follow those rails in that initial-type conversation, you could easily pretend to speak ten languages.

[TeaAndFloppyDisks]

I've been learning a new language intensively for a year and a half, practising every day, and I honestly feel like those videos where people "sneezed and suddenly became fluent in a new language" are making light of the time and effort it actually takes.

[WILD__THINGS]

There's a certain YouTube polyglot I saw speaking Spanish in a couple of videos. He was not actually saying what he wrote in the subtitles, not even close. He would say very basic things, sometimes even getting those things wrong, but then write something much more advanced in the subtitles. I'm left to assume he is probably doing that with other languages as well, and mostly trusting people won't pick up on it.