unique encounter between 2 polyglots in 21 languages

as an arabic speaker, he could do better

What's your native languageeeee

What is msa.accent ? Isnt that accents connects with a specific accent of a dialect (the accent-sound i mean-not the.vocabulray grammar etc)

The Korean was so off I’m dying 💀💀💀

How

,,Ich hab mehr holländischen akzent,Um mehr deutschen Akzent zu bekommen müsste ich mehr Apfelstrudel essen" 😂

For Vietnamese I only understood "i speak Vietnamese" Idk if it was the audio or they pronounced it wrong, probably cuz the audio, they're polyglots so.

So everyone knows...that "Mandarin" is UNFATHOMABLY bad. That's not "speaking" it. That's badly parroting things you can't even pronounce correctly rather than directly answering each other. Here's how it went:

"Ni hui shuo zhongwen ma?" (can you speak Chinese?)

"Wo jiao shenme mingzi is ok - What's my name is ok" (huh?)

"Ni jiao shenme mingzi?" (what's your name?)

"wo jiao?" (pointing to him - incorrect subtitle suggests he's asking HIS name but actually he - badly - says "I'm called?" which is not proper at all)

"wo jiao Wouter ke shi wo de zhongwen mingzi shi "wo de"" (I'm called Wouter but my Chinese name is "mine", if you literally translate)

"Shi, shi! de" (yes, yes - this is not how you'd express "ok, ok" - "shi ma?" would be maybe better to ask "oh it is?", but "shi, shi" doesn't MEAN anything by itself here)

"ni hui shuo hen duo zhong guo hua *noises that even my native speaking wife can't understand follow" (you can say a lot of Chinese language *jibberish*)

*makes weird noise in response - "shi...wo, wo, wo, wo shi " (am...I, I, I, I am...then he switches to Dutch)

"women yi qi keyi shuo hanyu gen wo de zhong guo pengyou zai Amsterdam, wo you hen duo zhong guo pengyou" (we can speak Chinese with my chinese friends in Amsterdam, I have a lot of Chinese friends" - pronunciation issues aside, this is not proper grammar and he attempts a word order that you'd get with English and its related languages)

"wo qu pengyou Harlem" (I GO to a friend Harlem? His pronunciation is SO bad that once again, both me and my native speaking wife - btw I live in China and have been speaking it for nearly 20 years - were perplexed)

"Oh, hui shuo putonghua...uh...Shanghai kouyin haishi beifang kouyin" (the first part is eaten by the wind - then he says "can Mandarin, **wind** Shanghai accent or northern accent? - not too bad here)


"Dui, shi de" (Right, it is/that's it)

"zheme liihai" (so great)

"yeah,"

"*wind* shi pengyou ma?" (are we friends?)
"yeah, hao qi hao qi" (um....sure, buddy, if you want to pretend you said something you go right ahead...WAIT....was he trying to say "hao CHI?" as in, "tasty"? Your FRIENDSHIP IS DElICIOUS BRO" wtf, STOP PRETENDING!

"wo feichang xihuan ni" (I really like you)

"wo...eh...wo, xiang qu zhongguo yinwei wo xiang shuo putonghua jibberish hao...uh...he wo ya feichang xihuan hen duo difang zai zhongguo, uh, feichang hao kan"
(I...eh...I want to go to china because I want to speak Mandarin good, uh, with, I ya really like many places in China, uh, very good looking"

Then they switch to another language.


Notice the issue here?
The answers do not match up at all with the questions. It is very obvious that Wouter, while his Chinese level in this video is QUITE low - maybe HSK2, at best - with many grammar and pronunciation mistakes, is AT lEAST able to form some sentences where a Chinese speaker CAN tell what he's trying to say, but the OTHER guy is just speaking jibberish and it is instantly obvious that he has NO idea what he's hearing and is winging it. He sounds like someone who literally spent 30 minutes on Duolingo, while Wouter at least sounds like he spent a month or so on Duolingo. The other guy OBVIOUSLY cannot speak Chinese AT ALL, while Wouter can use some very elementary pieces of it (and he admits to the need to improve, so points for that).

I just want people to understand EXACTly what is going on for those of you who have NO level in Chinese or are just starting out. The other guy is PRETENDING to respond with less than 10 words he picked up. In fairness he never claimed fluency but he's not having ANY sort of two-way conversation because he's incapable of understanding any of it, which means it was a pointless "conversation" to have. You have one side who is putting out questions and the other guy responds with nonsense non-answers like "yeah, right, that's right....uh, uh, I I I I ...I am...." That first part alone, OUCH. "Can you speak Chinese?" "What's your name is ok" - "What's your name?" "I'm called?" "I'm Wouter" - SO cringe, man. My POINT is, don't DO that if you don't really speak it - because it's GOING to be obvious to ANYONE with a real conversational level in it.

"Puedo hablar 5 accentos" ... but he can't pronounce "acentos". What a clown

Danish was trash!

They speak 2 languages. Others they are just faking by repeating the same phrases.

Lmao literally Textbook page one Mandarin and Vietnamese and they can’t even that right. Salute to the subtitles for all the heavy lifting 😂

the arabic one was horrible both in pronunciation and grammar 😭

I feel like they just memorized some basic phrases in many languages rather than achieving fluency.

wtf is this

What is the other guy’s name and y=channel ?

these fuckers are repeating the same conversation in different languages y'all are dumb as fuck for believing this shit

Fake polyglot

Albanian he actually studied he used past and actually answered the question not the most elaborate answer but counts he also had to think which shows it wadnt scripted and that he has a lot of room for improvement. In Greek he said δεν ξερω ενταξει (I dont know ok) and says he speaks greek listen to one Greek song and your level will be higher

this is mad cringe

As a native uzbek speaker from North Korea, I can confirm that they are speaking fluent Tagalog

That Korean was so bad

Oh my God, I hate fake polyglots

Extra: he speaks American, New Zealand language, Australian, Mexican, Argentinian, Peruvian, Colombian, Venezuelan, Brazilian, Serbian, Bosnian, probably Montenegrin. And if you live enough in Spain he can speak leonese and Asturian. And probably fala, Galician and gallegoportugués

More like “Unique encounter consisting of Wouter Courdwener firing off the exact same 5 canned memorized sentences in every language while being completely unable to understand anything and then quickly switching languages after he runs out of material within 30 seconds.” That’d make for too long and honest of a title though.

I think this video is now most famous for being the most dodgy "polyglots speaking a lot of languages" video of all time. 2 guys just speak random sentences at each other, neither of them can understand the other person. Ridiculous.

Hahaha, these two guys only know a couple of things in each language 😂😂😂😂

How many words to they know in each language?

Waiting for Italian 😢

So, like the first half dozen languages were decent, so they are polyglots.

Everything would have been fine is this was a 3 minute video...😂

As someone who can speak Portuguese, Spanish, English and is studying Japanese... That is NOT impressive at all. They spoke Spanish and Portuguese pretty badly.

The Greek part:

- When are we going?

- (in Greek) Δεν ξέρω. ("I don't know")

- Den ksero. It means now, or tomorrow?

- (in Spanish) Si ("yes"). (in Greek) Εντάξει. ("alright")

So the guy on the right either had a major socially-caused fumble, doesn't understand English or doesn't understand the phrase he himself used in Greek.

"I learned Modern Standard Arabic at home" yes it shows with all the stuttering, butchered words and letters.

I speak French, English and Occitan. The French in this video seems rehearsed and not very good.

Lol you just said hi to each other 21 times. You both suck at every language

Español es mi idioma favorito. Idiomas es divertido.

as a native speaker of tagalog, i can confirmed the any of this monkey does speak tagalog

Bilan: quantity over quality

that Korean gave me a minor seizure and those were the most basic words ever...

The danish was absolutely butchered omg

Mad flexing :D

I am swedish so I can speak Danish and Norwegian too 🙂

"Let's be friends" Wouter at least hide your scam. Why would you say this sentence ten times in a conversation?

They move like The Simps NPC's

How are you guys doing that? I wish I could speak that many languages but right now I am speaking Spanish at home and studying German at school. The Spanish I can do but the German I can barely grasp but I'm trying. You guys are good keep the good work

The Korean isn't perfect, but I don't blame them. We have the hardest grammar systems of any language..

So essentially: Two guys speak English to each other very well and then continue to present their ability to memorize the exact same 20 phrases in 20 different languages, with very good Dutch and German mixed in there. This is what I call being able to speak a language. I'm beyond impressed

These guys smell their own farts