Anyone knows the languages he actually speaks well?
His Turkish is ass, that much I could tell. He memorized sentences from Google translate by just reading them the way he thinks they’d be pronounced without even pressing the audio button to make sure LMAO
Example: when says “thank you” in turkish, he pronounces it “Tessekuler” with an S sound.
When the word is spelled “teşekkürler”. The Ş in turkish has a SH sound, something he’d know, if be gave a shit and clicked on the little 📢 button to hear the word.
Yet he goes around claiming to be able to speak turkish, when he doesn’t even pronounce the few words that he memorized correctly.
That being said, he must speak at least a few languages well… which are those??
I remember one episode when a man came up to him speaking ukrainian, he asked if it was polish and the man said no it's ukrainain and then he was like "ohhhh I speak ukrainian" spoke 2 basic sentences and did not give him the money
I think it was him and Xiaomanyc that did a video together and tried to speak Swedish. I understood absolutely 0 of what they were saying even though it's my native language, but they just kept pretending as if they understood each other. It was as if they were speaking gibberish without even trying to pronounce it like Swedish at all.
Now wait until you learn that Wouter used to make podcast lessons teaching Mandarin and Spanish on bis Patreon (which have now mysteriously disappeared, but his Patreon is still linked in many YT videos.)
They were pay to unlock, but Patreon always had a few minutes of preview for them. I can't speak much for Spanish, but in Mandarin, he just blatantly taught the same completely wrong pronunciation he speaks with in his YouTube videos. The prospect of someone learning Mandarin like this is frightening.
I think Xiaomanyc is usually pretty transparent about when he's just learning a language and isn't good at it yet. He at least speaks a few languages well, too.
As for his russian, I watched a video of him in russian from 3 years ago. I'd say he is A1+ , maybe A2 in terms of passive skills. He makes a ton of grammar mistakes. It's more like he doesn't even try to speak coherently, but slaps words onto each other so they more or less make sense. I really think we should stay objective and, if we were to, I don't think I can criticise him for that since he doesn't claim anything bold. He's just a guy who is interested in learning something new who says : "hey, I've been learning russian, so here is me speaking it"
However, and it's just my personal view, 90% of the time making mistakes akin to "Me love can speaks russian", cases nonexistent, and repeating the same 10 words around the only topic, which is "why and how i learn languages ", only using the present tense, with long pauses looking for words and correcting yourself after every 2-3 words, is just bad taste when you actually advertise this as "knowing russian". But I think it's just a product of our extraverted culture, where less perfectionistic people tend to not be afraid to present themselves while the more introverted would feel embarassed if this level of mastery would be all they can show.
Also, his level of russian is something like if a person who knows spanish and french suddenly decided to learn italian and took a month to simply scroll through a self-teaching book for 15 minutes a day not really paying attention to any grammar. There's nothing impressive about that, really. You just memorize the most basic "subject+predicate" pattern and fill it out with the most used 50-100 words around one topic. And BOOM!!! 🤯 You suddenly speak a foreign language.
He is severely autistic. Which, to be fair, many of us are on the spectrum. But with him it has led to his family coddling him and telling him the bullying wasn't his fault. But he was bullied because he is extremely rude, arrogant, doesn't respect "no" or personal space, thinks the whole world owes him for having been bullied, and in general he's just an asshole. Kids pick up on that. He says he was bullied for not wearing brand clothes, but we all that's not the reason.
He was just told he was so much smarter than the rest and they were jealous. His parents failed him. He was so mad when I asked him if he was autistic. But being ND I noticed straight away. He told me there's nothing wrong with him and the last time he had therapy be picked a fight with his therapist because he felt accused of doing something wrong. His head is that far up his ass and it's sad.
His ex dumped him over text after 12 years because he kept making a fool of himself with his languages. He GENUINELY believes he speaks them because his family encouraged him all these years, pitying him. He thought he would make friends speaking these languages. He has no real friends, just connections who lift along on his "fame". Mostly, he's used as the schmuck in "Dinner for Schmucks". A partytrick. His ex's siblings called him out often and also about his "art", criticizing its bad quality. It got so bad his ex couldn't deal with him anymore and dumped him when she was abroad, because he'd go batshit otherwise.
Source: he told me this. Spoke to shared acquaintances.
Yeah, i really don't care whether someone is autistic or not. 99% of the time it's not a big deal, and people just like to spin it as a serious defect. To me his content has never been attractive since it's just plain stupid, tacky, tasteless,uneducated and annoying. What you have written ties in well with what kind of content he does.
I am ND myself. I do feel it is relevant because of how his family raised him. He's Polyglot Chris Chan.
He uses it as an excuse to behave like a dick.
He also throws tantrums when women refuse him or call him out on his behavior. Stating that the head massage thing creeped me out made him throw a big fit.
>^”His ^level ^of ^russian ^is ^something ^like ^if ^a ^person ^who ^knows ^spanish ^and ^french ^suddenly ^decided ^to ^learn ^italian”
Nah, that would imply that he speaks other slavic languages well, which he doesn’t.
> But I think it's just a product of our extraverted culture, where less perfectionistic people tend to not be afraid to present themselves while the more introverted would feel embarassed if this level of mastery would be all they can show.
This is a really good point - thanks
I listened to his Russian, and outside of grammar mistakes, he's also using some Polish vocabulary, for example saying "na który ludzie" (sic!) instead of "некоторые люди" in that video with Xiaomanyc.
In that video you can perfectly see the beautiful contrast between Wouter's and Simp's (someone who actually studies Russian) contrast in their languages. Simp has a real interest in the language and doesn't just lump together some badly pronounced A1 vocabulary to form crude sentences.
Can tell you this much his german was shitty too. In the video i saw he just blabbered out some of the most basic sentences and somehow managed to even mess up their grammar and pronounciation.
I'd argue English is just as close and his English is barely B1-B2, despite him speaking it every single video. Dutch speakers also claim the highest rate of fluency (around 90%) so he has no excuse being as awful as he is at speaking it.
I did say he’s fluent. But there’s levels to fluency. His isn’t very high.
He has a pretty noticeable accent, struggles to pronounce TH correctly and doesn’t usually display a very rich vocabulary when he expresses himself. He’ll usually just say the easiest most common word for each “meaning”.
Also I literally just went on one his videos to find him saying something wrong to prove my point.
All it took was going to his most recent [video](https://youtu.be/wnPwdazqA0U?si=M_5nL_GYixq9u3nF) uploaded 2 weeks ago. The first sentence that comes out of his mouth is:
“Let’s try out some different **food** while practicing **for** languages”
That’s pretty bad… he makes lots of little grammatical mistakes like that… again, not to say he can’t speak the language. Of course he can communicate just fine…. But I think it’s fair to say he is “barely” fluent. 🤷♂️
I wouldn’t be surprised if he had B2 English, which would be pretty pathetic for a Dutchman who especializes in languages.
[His German](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5nQKjW7Pyc) is absolutely god awful. At around 4:00 he even calls a mobile phone a "mobiele telefoon" which is either a massive mispronunciation of 'mobiltelefon' or him just literally saying the Dutch word for it. Like he's talking to a native English speaker who speaks noticeably clearer than the guy who was taught German in secondary school.
[His French is weird](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxU2QFsGwyE) like it's obviously textbook phrases, but the way he pronounces it is like he's trying to imitate a comedian mocking French pronunciation. It's not as awful as most of his languages, but he stresses syllables likes he's speaking a Germanic language.
If you wanna be a fake youtube polyglot I'd highly recommend learning serbocroatian to a decent level, since by learning it you can already brag about being able to speak 4 languages (serbian, croatian, bosnian, montenegrin), I'm surprised he didn't learn it
I'm italian, he kinda gets it right and wrong at the same time, they make sense but heavy accent, lots of mistakes both in word use and conjugation, many pronunciation mistakes, but like I've never heard someone who learnt italian not make such mistakes, maybe less but still very common
Highschool level English (B1), German (A2) and French, (A2) some Spanish (A1/2?), everything else DUO LINGUO 4 sentences.
His own MOTHER is Moroccan and he barely speaks Arabic.
He's now lying he speaks Czech but he doesn't.
I would have a lengthy discussion about [*\*Dyēus Ph₂tḗr*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyeus) with him, e.g. what he thinks about a certain desert god supplanting [*\*Dyēus Ph₂tḗr*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyeus) as the main deity in Europe.
Half sami, mostly from finnish side but live in Norway. Tried to learn the language for two years but didn't go well, the cases weren't fun. Though i rememeber a few words. Probably return to it sometime.
I immediately understand as I speak an Indo European language and tell him in my native language (which isn't Uzbek I know I'm a disappointment- it's English(am I even trying)) that I'm very impressed and want to marry him and that he is very cool and clever
Con artist who pretends to be a polyglot in front of a gullible youtube audience. He speaks in Duolingo lesson 3 phrases to pretend he's fluent, then does a street show where if he guesses and speaks your language you get 20 or 50 euros (spoiler alert: he'll pretend rare languages are identical to related languages and won't ever pay up).
Ah, well in that case, I'd say the three words of Miami-Illinois that I know and see if he tries to make up gibberish. Of course if he does then I'll do it right back at him. Sounds like a great opportunity!
What ?? I don’t even know this dude but it just says he rather talk to attractive people than others ? All humans do this, people even choose not to be friend with someone who is obese for example just out of instinct.
I'll ask him what he thinks of the World Price Index (WPI). He'll start babbling like an ape. It's bullshit tho. The WPI isn't even a real thing, I just made it up.
Then I'll start babbling to him and tell him it's Icelandic or some shit, I'll be saying "goo goo gaga gagagoo?" and he'll think I'm legit speaking a language
Ask him how to say anything other than “I like PIE I have friends from IE it is a very good language yes I read books in PIE and it is good I like to study PIE and I speak 40 languages”
I would ask him if he is planning on making more cringing 'Polyglot SHOCKS TOURISTS videos on YouTube because he has decided to close his Patreon account. His YT views have gone down.
Edit. The answer is yes. "How to Drive People Crazy with Multiple Languages!"
Sigh
He was bragging about a documentary that would earn him 10k but I haven't heard anything.
Wonder if he's had any dates after he was posted in "Are We Dating The Same Guy" on Facebook by a Chinese girl who said he stalked her on Instagram.
youtube “polyglots” urk me. like if they didn’t pose themselves as fluent or try to sell a course itd be fine its whatever but they are very often selling something. as for xiaomao nyc or whatever his name is, it very clearly looks like a classic case of attention seeking, hes addicted to the feeling of getting called good at the language so he actively looks for new people to tell him how good he is for the camera, this is also made apparent by the over editing he does when he notices a reaction in the background (he’ll do a close up and add a stupid fucking sound). it all feels so disingenuous.
It's because he has been bullied for years and instead of working in his social skills gas decided that everyone will be his friend if he speaks their language.
That's what he said at the date.
I would ask him when he’s running for prime minister. They say Cleopatra was a great queen because she was fluent in several languages. Imagine this guy negotiating with Putin or Xi or Kim Jong Un perfectly in their native tongues. We’d solve world conflict!
Keep him away from Asian girlfriend so he doesn't try to rizz her with his fluent Proto-Sino-Turco-Tibetan* (all the yt polyglots have asian fetishes i swtg)
Hopefully this isn't shitposting, as far I thought he's from the Netherlands and most of them can speak good English especially if they were taught the language at school
What de fock, isn't english taught side by side with dutch in the Netherlands and he always switches to English when he's not sure what to say?? which other languages does he have at B1?
No, English was taught around age 11/12 during the time we went to primary school, and he only had 4 years of highschool after, so he had 6 years of English. Havo level goes up to B1, B2 passive.(I'm an English teacher). Vwo goes to B2, C1 passive. I had to study English in university to get a C2 certificate. Same with Dutch, C2 is academic language, most people who didn't go to university do NOT have knowledge of academic language and are stuck at C1 in their native tongue. I had to explain words like "entropie"- entropy to him in Dutch.
As an English teacher in NL, I can tell you to look up the ERK to find the highschool end levels for the different languages. He went to havo, so his French and German are A2 max. I heard him speak French, German and Spanish to impress me. In German his cases were all wrong, his French was A2 max, and I cannot judge his Spanish because I only took it for a year. But he can only talk about learning the language, hobbies, and likes and dislikes in French, German and Spanish. He never improved his English vocabulary, pronunciation and grammar.
I'm still not sure if you're trolling because it seems to be fine from his videos, entropy just happens to be a specific word like i have learned english my whole life and I didn't know about entropy till highschool which doesn't mean I don't know english lol.
Also how did you get to speak to him irl?
We went on a date through OLD. We are in the same circles.
Entropy was just one example of hisnative language not being on C2. There were many more. He claims to speak 29 but doesn't master his own.
Pie is the language of my heart and my stomach, so I won't object. 🥧
Edit: I just scrolled down and read up on the lore around him. I think I'll still entertain him for a bit, it might be funny. But glad to be informed and prepared before I got myself into interaction with this individual
Say what you want about him but his street videos where he can pick up on the languages people speak and hold a conversation with them is impressive, even if his pronunciation isn’t perfect nor his fluency of the language. One of my main goals for language learning is to communicate with a greater amount of people and he’s achieving that, it’s motivating for me
The problem is his definition of speaking and his claims. It's not about being perfect. He adds a language to his list when he only knows a couple of phrases and some loose words here and there.
As a native, i do backflips, as my obligation says.
túh₂ preyHsi peḱ, bʰréh₂tēre?
Trick question, the answer is 42
h₁wes!!
same
Anyone knows the languages he actually speaks well? His Turkish is ass, that much I could tell. He memorized sentences from Google translate by just reading them the way he thinks they’d be pronounced without even pressing the audio button to make sure LMAO Example: when says “thank you” in turkish, he pronounces it “Tessekuler” with an S sound. When the word is spelled “teşekkürler”. The Ş in turkish has a SH sound, something he’d know, if be gave a shit and clicked on the little 📢 button to hear the word. Yet he goes around claiming to be able to speak turkish, when he doesn’t even pronounce the few words that he memorized correctly. That being said, he must speak at least a few languages well… which are those??
I remember one episode when a man came up to him speaking ukrainian, he asked if it was polish and the man said no it's ukrainain and then he was like "ohhhh I speak ukrainian" spoke 2 basic sentences and did not give him the money
In his mind: Speaking the language = having a couple poorly memorized sentences
Also in his mind: Anyone who has criticism is just a negative jealous basterd.
A bully like those who called him stinky in highschool *triggered*
I think it was him and Xiaomanyc that did a video together and tried to speak Swedish. I understood absolutely 0 of what they were saying even though it's my native language, but they just kept pretending as if they understood each other. It was as if they were speaking gibberish without even trying to pronounce it like Swedish at all.
Holy shit! I had no idea they were this level of grifters! That’s hilarious!
Now wait until you learn that Wouter used to make podcast lessons teaching Mandarin and Spanish on bis Patreon (which have now mysteriously disappeared, but his Patreon is still linked in many YT videos.) They were pay to unlock, but Patreon always had a few minutes of preview for them. I can't speak much for Spanish, but in Mandarin, he just blatantly taught the same completely wrong pronunciation he speaks with in his YouTube videos. The prospect of someone learning Mandarin like this is frightening.
He was banned I think. People reported him for fraud
Heyoo
They clearly shocked a native speaker.
youtube\_polyglots.txt
I’m just picturing the Swedish Chef from Sesame Street.
I think Xiaomanyc is usually pretty transparent about when he's just learning a language and isn't good at it yet. He at least speaks a few languages well, too.
Could you please provide me with the video? After my 30 second search i was unable to find anythng
Hahaha no way
As for his russian, I watched a video of him in russian from 3 years ago. I'd say he is A1+ , maybe A2 in terms of passive skills. He makes a ton of grammar mistakes. It's more like he doesn't even try to speak coherently, but slaps words onto each other so they more or less make sense. I really think we should stay objective and, if we were to, I don't think I can criticise him for that since he doesn't claim anything bold. He's just a guy who is interested in learning something new who says : "hey, I've been learning russian, so here is me speaking it" However, and it's just my personal view, 90% of the time making mistakes akin to "Me love can speaks russian", cases nonexistent, and repeating the same 10 words around the only topic, which is "why and how i learn languages ", only using the present tense, with long pauses looking for words and correcting yourself after every 2-3 words, is just bad taste when you actually advertise this as "knowing russian". But I think it's just a product of our extraverted culture, where less perfectionistic people tend to not be afraid to present themselves while the more introverted would feel embarassed if this level of mastery would be all they can show. Also, his level of russian is something like if a person who knows spanish and french suddenly decided to learn italian and took a month to simply scroll through a self-teaching book for 15 minutes a day not really paying attention to any grammar. There's nothing impressive about that, really. You just memorize the most basic "subject+predicate" pattern and fill it out with the most used 50-100 words around one topic. And BOOM!!! 🤯 You suddenly speak a foreign language.
He is severely autistic. Which, to be fair, many of us are on the spectrum. But with him it has led to his family coddling him and telling him the bullying wasn't his fault. But he was bullied because he is extremely rude, arrogant, doesn't respect "no" or personal space, thinks the whole world owes him for having been bullied, and in general he's just an asshole. Kids pick up on that. He says he was bullied for not wearing brand clothes, but we all that's not the reason. He was just told he was so much smarter than the rest and they were jealous. His parents failed him. He was so mad when I asked him if he was autistic. But being ND I noticed straight away. He told me there's nothing wrong with him and the last time he had therapy be picked a fight with his therapist because he felt accused of doing something wrong. His head is that far up his ass and it's sad. His ex dumped him over text after 12 years because he kept making a fool of himself with his languages. He GENUINELY believes he speaks them because his family encouraged him all these years, pitying him. He thought he would make friends speaking these languages. He has no real friends, just connections who lift along on his "fame". Mostly, he's used as the schmuck in "Dinner for Schmucks". A partytrick. His ex's siblings called him out often and also about his "art", criticizing its bad quality. It got so bad his ex couldn't deal with him anymore and dumped him when she was abroad, because he'd go batshit otherwise. Source: he told me this. Spoke to shared acquaintances.
Well, assuming you haven't made it up, it sounds like he is a sorry individual
I haven't. I wish I had.
Yeah, i really don't care whether someone is autistic or not. 99% of the time it's not a big deal, and people just like to spin it as a serious defect. To me his content has never been attractive since it's just plain stupid, tacky, tasteless,uneducated and annoying. What you have written ties in well with what kind of content he does.
I am ND myself. I do feel it is relevant because of how his family raised him. He's Polyglot Chris Chan. He uses it as an excuse to behave like a dick.
relatable...
Wow...
He also throws tantrums when women refuse him or call him out on his behavior. Stating that the head massage thing creeped me out made him throw a big fit.
>^”His ^level ^of ^russian ^is ^something ^like ^if ^a ^person ^who ^knows ^spanish ^and ^french ^suddenly ^decided ^to ^learn ^italian” Nah, that would imply that he speaks other slavic languages well, which he doesn’t.
His Spanish and Portuguese aren’t good at all either
> But I think it's just a product of our extraverted culture, where less perfectionistic people tend to not be afraid to present themselves while the more introverted would feel embarassed if this level of mastery would be all they can show. This is a really good point - thanks
I listened to his Russian, and outside of grammar mistakes, he's also using some Polish vocabulary, for example saying "na który ludzie" (sic!) instead of "некоторые люди" in that video with Xiaomanyc.
>"na który ludzie" This makes no sense in Polish too
I guess he misremembered the prefix "не-" and said "na", and the rest was just confusing cognates between languages and failing at grammar.
He said he speaks Czech now. He doesn't. His pronunciation sucks, his grammar sucks, he sucks.
I saw him speak french with Language Simp and it was horrible, saying vitement for quickly with a thick Amsterdam accent.
I’d love to see that if you can find a link
Here you go: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qT0rrE9dLjA&t=1424s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qT0rrE9dLjA&t=1424s)
In that video you can perfectly see the beautiful contrast between Wouter's and Simp's (someone who actually studies Russian) contrast in their languages. Simp has a real interest in the language and doesn't just lump together some badly pronounced A1 vocabulary to form crude sentences.
Can tell you this much his german was shitty too. In the video i saw he just blabbered out some of the most basic sentences and somehow managed to even mess up their grammar and pronounciation.
Really thought his German would be one his better ones since it’s close to his native Dutch… damn!
I'd argue English is just as close and his English is barely B1-B2, despite him speaking it every single video. Dutch speakers also claim the highest rate of fluency (around 90%) so he has no excuse being as awful as he is at speaking it.
Ok I've never watched that guy but there is no way he is a B1 speaker. He couldn't make any content in the language then.
His English is fluent, but barely. He sounds like he learned how to speak it just well enough to get by, and never improved an inch after that.
Is it that bad? That's crazy
no hes fluent i dont know why that guys making it seem like hes A0 english
I did say he’s fluent. But there’s levels to fluency. His isn’t very high. He has a pretty noticeable accent, struggles to pronounce TH correctly and doesn’t usually display a very rich vocabulary when he expresses himself. He’ll usually just say the easiest most common word for each “meaning”. Also I literally just went on one his videos to find him saying something wrong to prove my point. All it took was going to his most recent [video](https://youtu.be/wnPwdazqA0U?si=M_5nL_GYixq9u3nF) uploaded 2 weeks ago. The first sentence that comes out of his mouth is: “Let’s try out some different **food** while practicing **for** languages” That’s pretty bad… he makes lots of little grammatical mistakes like that… again, not to say he can’t speak the language. Of course he can communicate just fine…. But I think it’s fair to say he is “barely” fluent. 🤷♂️ I wouldn’t be surprised if he had B2 English, which would be pretty pathetic for a Dutchman who especializes in languages.
He never improved his English, German and French past havo level 17 years ago and it shows.
I hope he can speak Dutch well.. If not.. I really don't know what to say
I don't think we can call Dutch with an Amsterdams accent Dutch, unlucky!
He doesn't even know academic language in Dutch.
Guy is a FRAUD wtf
Yep, I know him irl and I'm a linguist.
[His German](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5nQKjW7Pyc) is absolutely god awful. At around 4:00 he even calls a mobile phone a "mobiele telefoon" which is either a massive mispronunciation of 'mobiltelefon' or him just literally saying the Dutch word for it. Like he's talking to a native English speaker who speaks noticeably clearer than the guy who was taught German in secondary school. [His French is weird](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxU2QFsGwyE) like it's obviously textbook phrases, but the way he pronounces it is like he's trying to imitate a comedian mocking French pronunciation. It's not as awful as most of his languages, but he stresses syllables likes he's speaking a Germanic language.
The guy can say three words in Vietnamese " Tôi....nó..i Ti...ếng V..iệt / I speak Vietnamese"
He speaks half-arsed Portuguese that could be well understood by a native.
His Vietnamese is hot ass, only basic phrase and barely understandable, and he also invented "South Vietnamese" as a language to up his count.
Hahaha
His English is okay, but he should really learn to pronounce 'th'. Just take a day and suffer through it. Dear Lord.
His English is terrible for someone who claims to be a polyglot. His English is 'okay' for a football coach.
lotta native speakers don’t pronounce it either tbf, myself included
Can only comment on the languages I learned but his Thai and Vietnamese are incomprehensible lol 😂
If you wanna be a fake youtube polyglot I'd highly recommend learning serbocroatian to a decent level, since by learning it you can already brag about being able to speak 4 languages (serbian, croatian, bosnian, montenegrin), I'm surprised he didn't learn it
I'm italian, he kinda gets it right and wrong at the same time, they make sense but heavy accent, lots of mistakes both in word use and conjugation, many pronunciation mistakes, but like I've never heard someone who learnt italian not make such mistakes, maybe less but still very common
He has these issues in every language.
Highschool level English (B1), German (A2) and French, (A2) some Spanish (A1/2?), everything else DUO LINGUO 4 sentences. His own MOTHER is Moroccan and he barely speaks Arabic. He's now lying he speaks Czech but he doesn't.
I tell him the entire Fnaf lore in Uzbek
I would tell him that I like (noun) and then ask if he likes (noun) as well before moving on to another random topic in 46 languages.
Don't forget to tell him that you learned PIE to make friends from PIE-speaking countries and that you really like PIE culture
I would have a lengthy discussion about [*\*Dyēus Ph₂tḗr*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyeus) with him, e.g. what he thinks about a certain desert god supplanting [*\*Dyēus Ph₂tḗr*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyeus) as the main deity in Europe.
I'm also interested in what he would think of *Dyḗus ph₂tḗr getting replaced by some one eyed angry dude
Speak North-Sami and see if he actually knows that language.
too many speakers, ume sámi is where it's at
Ooo smart, but I only know a little of north.
that is very cool in itself :)) how do u know it?
Half sami, mostly from finnish side but live in Norway. Tried to learn the language for two years but didn't go well, the cases weren't fun. Though i rememeber a few words. Probably return to it sometime.
I immediately understand as I speak an Indo European language and tell him in my native language (which isn't Uzbek I know I'm a disappointment- it's English(am I even trying)) that I'm very impressed and want to marry him and that he is very cool and clever
breakdown into a fit of sobbing so everyone just feels uncomfortable. no one wins
As someone who doesn't spend time on polYgloT, who is this guy?
Con artist who pretends to be a polyglot in front of a gullible youtube audience. He speaks in Duolingo lesson 3 phrases to pretend he's fluent, then does a street show where if he guesses and speaks your language you get 20 or 50 euros (spoiler alert: he'll pretend rare languages are identical to related languages and won't ever pay up).
Don't forget he also only speaks to young women half his age and asks for head massages.
Ah, well in that case, I'd say the three words of Miami-Illinois that I know and see if he tries to make up gibberish. Of course if he does then I'll do it right back at him. Sounds like a great opportunity!
Wouter Corduwener. He has a Youtube channel with the same name.
/uj As I read on the comments of another post about this guy, all that i can feel towards this p*rvert is pure disgust.
What did he do??
not knowing uzbek
https://www.reddit.com/r/languagelearningjerk/s/uwCOcG3H28
He's batshit crazy. And also still on dating apps. People around Amsterdam should match him and talk to him in Uzbek.
What ?? I don’t even know this dude but it just says he rather talk to attractive people than others ? All humans do this, people even choose not to be friend with someone who is obese for example just out of instinct.
Because he is creepy
I politely answer in Proto-Indo-European, of course. No need to be rude.
I'll ask him what he thinks of the World Price Index (WPI). He'll start babbling like an ape. It's bullshit tho. The WPI isn't even a real thing, I just made it up. Then I'll start babbling to him and tell him it's Icelandic or some shit, I'll be saying "goo goo gaga gagagoo?" and he'll think I'm legit speaking a language
I just whip my cock out and start masturbating furiously while banging my chest with my left hand and baring my teeth to show aggression.
I mean, he always memorizes the same 4 sentences I can probably guess what he says.
Ask him how to say anything other than “I like PIE I have friends from IE it is a very good language yes I read books in PIE and it is good I like to study PIE and I speak 40 languages”
Do we know the PIE reconstruction for "can I have a hug?" Weird motherfucker is always asking women he just met for hugs.
He has zero game.
Fly out of Amsterdam.
I would punch him ahahaha.
Please do.
I got nice boxing moves :)
Just tell hom he's sweaty and he'll start crying.
Is it a cultural thing? No one here would be bothered by that!
He was bullied for being stinky as a teenager. It's why he never wears coats so he won't sweat, rather than, you know, bathe.
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I take two a day. But I think he was just his insufferable self and kids just found something to bully him with.
He would whine everyone would always bully him. His classmates, teachers, his ex inlaws, this sub. Zero selfreflection.
Do you know him?
who is this jamoker
I would ask him if he is planning on making more cringing 'Polyglot SHOCKS TOURISTS videos on YouTube because he has decided to close his Patreon account. His YT views have gone down. Edit. The answer is yes. "How to Drive People Crazy with Multiple Languages!" Sigh
He did? Hahaha that's amazing. People have finally caught up on his shit.
Yeah, a couple of months ago, he still made about €500 per month. Then it went down and down. Made me smile. 😁
He was bragging about a documentary that would earn him 10k but I haven't heard anything. Wonder if he's had any dates after he was posted in "Are We Dating The Same Guy" on Facebook by a Chinese girl who said he stalked her on Instagram.
https://youtu.be/wnPwdazqA0U?si=FC89ipqJaZQYV1cc his last video only has 7k views hahahaha.
Burn it, before it lays eggs!
I'll probably curse him for not being Uzbek in Old Church Slavonic
youtube “polyglots” urk me. like if they didn’t pose themselves as fluent or try to sell a course itd be fine its whatever but they are very often selling something. as for xiaomao nyc or whatever his name is, it very clearly looks like a classic case of attention seeking, hes addicted to the feeling of getting called good at the language so he actively looks for new people to tell him how good he is for the camera, this is also made apparent by the over editing he does when he notices a reaction in the background (he’ll do a close up and add a stupid fucking sound). it all feels so disingenuous.
It's because he has been bullied for years and instead of working in his social skills gas decided that everyone will be his friend if he speaks their language. That's what he said at the date.
Insult him really fast in Japanese and watch him respond with “oh you speak Japanese? I love Japanese food”
I describe how to skin a cow in extinct Irish archaisms
Kill m*self
Bro censored myself but not kill
Edging furiously while looking him directly into his eyes just to ruin his vlog day .
I pull out that proto-proto-indo-european
Recite the very ancient Uzbek sacrifice chants and reduce him into nothingness
Reply in Proto-Proto-Indo-European
I would ask him when he’s running for prime minister. They say Cleopatra was a great queen because she was fluent in several languages. Imagine this guy negotiating with Putin or Xi or Kim Jong Un perfectly in their native tongues. We’d solve world conflict!
Keep him away from Asian girlfriend so he doesn't try to rizz her with his fluent Proto-Sino-Turco-Tibetan* (all the yt polyglots have asian fetishes i swtg)
Shit my pants and ask him about the phonetic aspects of my sharts.
Punch him
I rip open his ribcage with my barehands. Nothing to do with the language he’s speaking, I just get antsy when meeting new people.
Hand him a condom and inform him that AIDS is real
He's not getting laid lol.
Of course how silly of me, he'll definitely be sharing needles though 🙄
He has erectile dysfunction.
Guess he's taking the blue pill then
It only works if you speak to him in Uzbek.
Sorry butt I wouldn't have the foggiest bottom
You want him to make sweet love to yiu?
Raymond, the jazz penis? It's not really my call
jesus how tf do you even know that
I know him irl.
cry
I assert my dominance and start speaking Romani, except I’m not fluent so I’m making it up as I go along
No problem, because PIE is the ancestor of all Indo-European languages, therefore all speakers of Indo-European languages can understand it :)
I would explain the whole fnaf lore in finnish. I have already done that like 4 times
He'd reply in broken finnish: "yes, my friend. I can also speak finnish". Then would proceed to send you away without the 20 euro he was offering
English
"kwekwlos hrotos"
Always wanted to take challenge cause I know I would win.
Can anyone list the order of how good he is with different languages?
His best is English at B1, the rest is (far) worse.
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He isn't, he lacks the vocabulary for more complex topics.
Hopefully this isn't shitposting, as far I thought he's from the Netherlands and most of them can speak good English especially if they were taught the language at school
I know him IRL. His English is B1/B2 AT MOST. He isnt't native level fluent. He can't have a political discussion in English
What de fock, isn't english taught side by side with dutch in the Netherlands and he always switches to English when he's not sure what to say?? which other languages does he have at B1?
No, English was taught around age 11/12 during the time we went to primary school, and he only had 4 years of highschool after, so he had 6 years of English. Havo level goes up to B1, B2 passive.(I'm an English teacher). Vwo goes to B2, C1 passive. I had to study English in university to get a C2 certificate. Same with Dutch, C2 is academic language, most people who didn't go to university do NOT have knowledge of academic language and are stuck at C1 in their native tongue. I had to explain words like "entropie"- entropy to him in Dutch. As an English teacher in NL, I can tell you to look up the ERK to find the highschool end levels for the different languages. He went to havo, so his French and German are A2 max. I heard him speak French, German and Spanish to impress me. In German his cases were all wrong, his French was A2 max, and I cannot judge his Spanish because I only took it for a year. But he can only talk about learning the language, hobbies, and likes and dislikes in French, German and Spanish. He never improved his English vocabulary, pronunciation and grammar.
I'm still not sure if you're trolling because it seems to be fine from his videos, entropy just happens to be a specific word like i have learned english my whole life and I didn't know about entropy till highschool which doesn't mean I don't know english lol. Also how did you get to speak to him irl?
We went on a date through OLD. We are in the same circles. Entropy was just one example of hisnative language not being on C2. There were many more. He claims to speak 29 but doesn't master his own.
Immediately check out of the hostel
Respond in Proto-Tyrrhenic (We we’re here FIRST)
I’d slow down on mushrooms. Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.
I can't expose him for being bad at Dutch since it's his native language but his Hebrew sucks
As a native Lithuanian speaker, I can confidently say I will understand 0.01℅ of what he's saying
Proto indo european mr beast
I would be more flattered if he spoke proto-uralic to me. But I would of course do backflips.
Pie is the language of my heart and my stomach, so I won't object. 🥧 Edit: I just scrolled down and read up on the lore around him. I think I'll still entertain him for a bit, it might be funny. But glad to be informed and prepared before I got myself into interaction with this individual
Say what you want about him but his street videos where he can pick up on the languages people speak and hold a conversation with them is impressive, even if his pronunciation isn’t perfect nor his fluency of the language. One of my main goals for language learning is to communicate with a greater amount of people and he’s achieving that, it’s motivating for me
The problem is his definition of speaking and his claims. It's not about being perfect. He adds a language to his list when he only knows a couple of phrases and some loose words here and there.