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From what you described what he does.. he sounds like a standard narcissist.

What are the ways to pronounce the Turkish language like Turks?

Greetings Alex. First timer here: this came up in my recommendations today. You've reminded me of another somewhat warped individual who used to put out videos denigrating other language-fanciers. It took me a while to remember his name, which was Christophe Clugston. Anyone remember him? His particular bêtes noires were Steve and Benny. By his own account he was a professional academic with a research qualification but his videos were both ridiculous and rather unsettling, probably on account of his other great passion which was Thai kickboxing. One got the distinct impression that he'd been kicked in the head once too often. I just checked and there are a few of his language and linguistics videos still knocking around, all over ten years old now. Occasionally his name used to come up in forum discussions and nobody could find any reference to him or any published work of his in academic journals. P.S. Thank you for alerting me to the correct pronunciation of Botes. I too have been saying Boats. My defence is that I have a very common Flemish surname which almost nobody pronounces or spells correctly, and the unwritten rule is that if you've got a name which everyone gets wrong then you're allowed to mangle other people's names with impunity.

I grew up speaking Spanish in my household because my grandma didn’t allow us to speak English at home but of course I would speak English outside of my household… my Spanish was bad but got a bit better getting older with the grammar. Later my gma died and I stopped speaking the language. Irony, I moved to Mexico and my Spanish worsened because I was too embarrassed to speak my shitty Spanish to anyone. I just want to go back to speaking Spanish fr because it’s my blood language main and it hurts walking this earth not being able to speak to my people properly honestly 😭😭💀

I believe you gave him what he was looking for... more attention than his content deserves. To me it just seems like he cannot speak a language as good as he would like and just goes on and hate those who do something he would like to do and finds crazy answers to why they can. He also craves the attention they get...

Best video for italki!

I can't believe someone contains so much hate in themselves. I agree that there are fake polyglots out there, but then to each their own goals. Punching down will never make you worthier...

You tube is a haven for fakes and liers because they don’t require posters to prove their claims. I could post here that the moon is made out of cheese and you tube would do nothing about that lie. So as you read, keep in mind that this is the place where scamers practice their art.

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you speak slow amazingly but you really good you gonna be better i know.. lets go

I love languages ❤❤

I want to leave other languages such as Spanish, Italian, German, Greek

Sounds like a mental illness.

Polyglot fake is very funny, I'm speaking Portuguese and learning English.

yo ingilizce zor 6 senedir kurstan kursa gidiyorum hep bir yerden bilmem ne tense çıkıyor

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If any fake polyglot scammers want to talk about their scammy polyglot scamming background, you're welcome to do that on our Podcast! I've had already 56 scammy polygots all around the world talking about this topic. I'll try to ask Sam as well, it would be interesting to hear his whole story. Let's see what happens.

I’m Namibian (South-Africa’s neighbor), and my two native languages are also both English and Afrikaans. Lindie Botes has a normal Afrikaans accent. She is South-African. All us Afrikaans speaker grow up with English because English is one of South-Africa’s national languages and English is Namibia’s only national language, so we don’t “have to work hard to learn English”. This dude is a joke…

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GUESS WHAT?! I CAN SING IN OLD NORSE JAPANESE IRISH SWEDISH FINNISH NORWEGIAN AND I HAVE A JAPANESE FRIEND WHO I'M NOT GOING TO NAME TO POINT OUT MY FLAWS (sorry for that my caps are broken)

It seems like Sam might have some kind of untreated mental issue. His fixation on minute details as evidence of scamming and his repetitive phrases remind me a lot of someone with schizophrenia.

Have your ever thought on creating channels on youtube either just for you or to share them with people but only in the language you speak like for example a channel of korean where you speak only in korean about korean culture, anime, culture history, politics just thinking

thank you!!

What is the scam? Even if someone is exaggerating their skills online, that’s not a crime. A scam or crime is when someone is stealing money by deception, who is like “I speak 7 languages, give me a thousand dollars” 😂 Lying online isn’t a crime in of itself (not that I’m saying most of these people are lying, his “evidence” is dumb)

His English sucks and he's a lunatic. Also, he's a coward for disabling the comment section.

This video deserves many more views than it has!

Yeah, that guy has mental issues.

Resources list Babadum language picture games Duolingo = basics Busuu quality lessons Clozemaster spaced repetition Amazon flashcards bilingual crosswords word searches and word scrambles translator pens Reverso translator dictionary Drops = word base Lingopie Netflix of language learning Lingo play language games

Are you interesting in learning Belarusian or Southern Russian dialect/accent and/or Common Slavic vocabulary? I want to reach C1+ in ~Russian/East Slavic but I don't want to learn all the Russian slang words and endless synonyms so my plan is to use the common Slavic vocabulary, especially the verbs. Are you interested in seeing my research or assisting? Specifically I need help double checking my verb translations e.g. (говори́ть/го́вор vs. река́ть/речь vs. мо́(л)вить/мо́(л)ва.) Your knowledge in Bulgarian would be useful. 1 more thing, while learning German or French or Turkish or Japanese is interesting, and I want to learn Japanese too, your base in Bulgarian means that you could achieve very high fluency in Russian, more so than other language so it's the best for your buck. Also, I'm pretty sure all the high level technical stuff is the same or similar between Bulgarian and Russian.

wouter courdowener is a fake polyglot he only knows a few phrases in my language and kept on repeating it on each of his videos. he is a beginner level and should not claim that he knows the language. no credibility at all.

both lindie and wouter claim they speak my native language but the truth is they are very low level. but i dont like this wouter at all because he mentioned that my language is 'easy' several times even though he is terrible in it.

im learning romanian! not a lot of games offer romanian as a language

LIER fake polyglob YouToober shill...how much are they paying you SCAMER

Honestly I just realised for the first time in my life that every single line you say is a brand new video. Every sentence is edited from one to the next... Its not a fault but I am saying this because actually I never noticed until you were talking about editing and I realise that your head is moving between every sentence.. My friend is a Video editor and told me its hard to go at least 2 minutes unedited. I just signed up for Preply and had to do a video and I didn't want to edit... It took me hours and hours just to get to a 1minute 59 second video I was okay happy with.. My point is you don't really recognise these things unless you are looking for them. About the guy, it's sad how he feels so bad about himself he does this - and online, that's what makes it really pathetic.

I love it when people want to learn Bulgarian! 🇧🇬 I admire your dedication

Sam is making things overly complicated. Anyone who is learning languages is a scammer.

Thank you for your kindness there shouldn't be any reason to berate people who dont speak thier native language. But instead help them improve and motivate i lost track how many entitled people called me a dumbass for mispronucing some words wrong and that made me feel like i didn't want to speak the language anymore.

Of course there's a lot to gain from lying, you get views! On youtube, views = money.

Hey Alex, I really think you're falling into the same trap as you made last time. It really feels like you are spreading yourself too thin. I highly recommend reading a book called Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman. It really helps one come to terms with the fact that we MUST prioritize in our lives. There's always more that we want to do than we can feasibly do.

My fail was too much at a time. My biggest success was my method fir Spanish. A goal for me is to learn some portuguese and ASL. I also have similar goals to your Bulgarian goals for Spanish/French/German. Happy New Year!!

You said there's nothing to gain from lying. Well, that is obviously not true. If you can speak 3 languages well, native, English and German, because you live in Germany (just an example). Then you learn French, and some Italian, because it's very close to French, and Dutch, which is similar to German. All of that is fine, Your languages range from A2 to C1. Then the fraud begins for some, which is learning the basics of different languages in the basis of one language per month or more. What you gain from that? Views=money. Half of Europeans could identify you're exaggerating or right down lying, but 80% of Americans would be none the wiser. If you learn 3 words of an Indian language, you'd get bazillions of views from Indians saying you speak excellent Bengali or Telugu.

Why don't you make a video in the target language; a video in German for example

I've found that setting SMART goals (specific, measurable, etc) for long term goals doesn't work very well for me personally. So most of my goals are more of "dreams"/visions of improving in certain areas, even if they're vague, and then I work on short-term projects or challenges throughout the year that are SMART goals and that work towards 1 or more of those visions/dreams. For me, time goals especially are difficult to set and then follow-through, because it's so easy to over- or underestimate how busy I'll be and how much motivation I'll have throughout the year for certain languages, and if I get behind I find it really demotivating. I do set a few measurable goals, though, like trying to read a novel per month in Korean. All this to say -- I think different goal-setting styles work better for different people. I think knowing about SMART goals is important, and knowing what motivates or demotivates you personally is also important, and people should set their goals accordingly. I do agree that sometimes people set vague or just unrealistic "goals"(dreams) for the year and don't seem to have any idea of how they're going to get there. What kind of stuff do you usually do/watch for Korean? Just wondering because the amount you set (3 hours) makes me think it's not dramas, unless you just really space the eps out haha. I'm currently working on improving basically all aspects of my advanced Korean and reading/watching stuff in low-intermediate-ish Mandarin and Japanese on the side.

I met all my language goals in speaking and understanding Welsh and Irish, but my (much more modest) writing goals in both languages fell by the wayside. I still count it as a win though, as I had a much more unsettled year than I expected and you can't help it if real life intrudes in ways you couldn't have anticipated.

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2:28 That's one of my main reasons for wanting to learn languages, studying Spanish and Russian right now. Being able to talk to the people in a country you move to or visiting unlocks so much more opportunities than not being able to talk to them at all. When it comes to "minority" languages, I already speak Swedish fluently. Want to learn Korean, Finnish, Turkish and Estonian at some point.

The more I listen and hear about Sam, the more he sounds like a language channel version of DarkSydePhil (don't look it up unless you enjoy torturing yourself).

1:48 Having great English is quite common in Scandinavia, English has been one of the "required subjects" for quite some time now. One place that allot of Scandi people lack in is the speaking part, I did allot better than my peers due to growing up in a bilingual household (My mom could speak Swedish and English, my dad spoke English and we used purely English at home). It also helps that Swedes get so much media from the USA, in that regards you will be hard pressed to find someone that if not fluent is at least has very good understanding of English. Lastly, it's a generational thing. Boomers and older people struggle hard with this, mainly cause they didn't learn English growing up. Edit: I was expecting Sam to be an actual Dane, not some half-mongrel "kebabsvarvare". He's just as Danish as the Turkish yoghurt is greek just because I changed the labels.

I feel like he's similar to Nikocado Avocado. Truly deranged content but also so fascinating at the same time.