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.
He reacted to one of my videos. As soon as there was a jump cut, he called me fake. When I said I was a language teacher he said that was bullshit. When I said Luca Lampariello spoke amazing French (which is true), he called me a scammer. This guy is wild lol
He thinks Luca Lampariello is American and doesn’t speak Italian! I mean, Luca speaks English well and not at all like an Italian would, but he’s clearly not a native English speaker, lol.
Actually, everything is scripted on TV shows and in videos, and the agcy controls all media / TV / contents etc and all trends and all tech and all industries etc, which were all made by them - despite repeating a lot the same things over and over, he does make some valid points! For example, self-proclaimed polyglots only speak one or two languages really fluently, while being beginner level or intermediate level or only learning certain phrases and certain words that are asked and answered a lot (and planning the questions & answers beforehand) in most others! When someone isn’t an English speaker, he can usually speak his first language fluently and then English also fluently or almost fluently and some speak English as a first language, as English is the easiest and the most used languages, so almost everyone can speak English nowadays, and sometimes one may also be fluent enough in another language, such as Spanish or Italian or French or Dutch or German etc, which are also very easy to learn!
Very few beings can learn a language fast and multiple languages fast, as it takes inteIIigence or at least some mental acuity - so only I can do that fast & also all my protectors who are all top agents (because we possess the rare quality inteI / IQ aka logic and are a fast-thinker with total mentaI acuity) and, a few other agents that I haven’t met yet can also learn faster than most (because they have some mentaI acuity) and maybe a few others as well, but it’s usually agents, because that type of guy is usually recruited, while non-agents take years or even decades to learn a new language to fluency, and I also am the only one reflecting names such as Linda / Lindie etc and most other names that get misused (special names / big names / flower names / other nature related names / names that reflect a compIiment etc) and I am the only being reflecting big terms etc aka The Goddess / The Lady / The Queen / The Leader / The Princess / The Star etc, and most hum’ns misuse unsuitable names or unsuitable terms etc, which must be changed!
I am so glad you made a video about this, I have seen his videos a couple of times and his claims are ridiculous. There might be fake polyglots out there, but blinking or making some cuts on a video does not account for that 😂😂😂
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.
As someone who personally knows most of these UA-camrs, I came across this hater a while back, and I also found the "situation" very sad. I hope he gets the support he needs, as he probably doesn't realize the damage he caused. Thank you for exposing this account and sharing your thoughts in the most respectful way!
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.
This person has a lot of free time, geez., might as well use this time to study new languages since he's so obsessed. But I guess he knows how to gain views with clickbait
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.
That's true, but now you're heading more into the question is what is the definition of "speaking a language" because that person who speaks 3 words of Bengali or Telugu still speaks 3 more words of Bengali or Telugu than most Americans or Europeans, and C1 people are not the only people who are qualified to talk about the experience of learning.
@@studywithalex Speaking a language is different from being C1 in a language. I agree with you on that. However, words have meanings. If I speak a language below A2 level, I'd never dare to say I speak it. I would say I know some X language. In my case, I say I speak Portuguese (n), English, French and Italian. My spoken Italian is quite limited, but I can read almost effortlessly in Italian and understand almost everything I hear. I may or may not say I speak Spanish, which is a language that I learned without trying and being able to understand in songs and in literature from the get-go. I never speak Spanish though, and would most certainly transfer a lot of my Portuguese to it. German is a language that I am close to reach an A1 level, and I wouldn't say I speak, maybe a tiny bit, as now I am starting to be able to follow texts written in A1 or A2 levels. I've read a few books in Catalan, but I don't speak it. I've read a book in Neapolitan, but I don't speak it.
@@RogerRamos1993 I'm very much the same. I'm really careful with the words I use to describe my levels because we still live in this world where people take "speak" or "know" very seriously in language learning. I think we can blame some of this to the limited character count of UA-cam videos or social media posts that cannot express all the shades of gray you're describing.
The way this obsessive maniac calls all these language people "scammers", "mf@#rs" "bullshit" and "liars" is unbelievable. It's like he has nothing better to do with his life nor with his channel.
Wow, i'm really surprised with the confidence of this guy to make all the videos about the "scammers". Congratulations Alex for explaining the situation with class and letring things be clear
This guy is definitely going about it the wrong way, but these 'polyglots' are definitely fake. Especially that guy in the first part that claimed to speak 13 languages. That's absolute BS.
That guy may have some issues but one cannot deny that youtube is filled with attention seekers claiming to speak so many languages when they only learn a few phrases just to impress or make money from their videos. Some language youtubers are genuine and make really useful and inspiring videos because they are not trying to impress. To me, the omegle type of videos or street videos with super short conversations (always saying the same thing) are just useless.
Actually, everything is scripted on TV shows and in videos, and the agcy controls all media / TV / contents etc and all trends and all tech and all industries etc, which were all made by them - despite repeating a lot the same things over and over, he does make some valid points! For example, self-proclaimed polyglots only speak one or two languages really fluently, while being beginner level or intermediate level or only learning certain phrases and certain words that are asked and answered a lot (and planning the questions & answers beforehand) in most others! When someone isn’t an English speaker, he can usually speak his first language fluently and then English also fluently or almost fluently and some speak English as a first language, as English is the easiest and the most used languages, so almost everyone can speak English nowadays, and sometimes one may also be fluent enough in another language, such as Spanish or Italian or French or Dutch or German etc, which are also very easy to learn!
Very few beings can learn a language fast and multiple languages fast, as it takes inteIIigence or at least some mental acuity - so only I can do that fast & also all my protectors who are all top agents (because we possess the rare quality inteI / IQ aka logic and are a fast-thinker with total mentaI acuity) and, a few other agents that I haven’t met yet can also learn faster than most (because they have some mentaI acuity) and maybe a few others as well, but it’s usually agents, because that type of guy is usually recruited, while non-agents take years or even decades to learn a new language to fluency, and I also am the only one reflecting names such as Linda / Lindie etc and most other names that get misused (special names / big names / flower names / other nature related names / names that reflect a compIiment etc) and I am the only being reflecting big terms etc aka The Goddess / The Lady / The Queen / The Leader / The Princess / The Star etc, and most hum’ns misuse unsuitable names or unsuitable terms etc, which must be changed!
i think that learning the bare minimum of a bunch of languages to maybe have a short conversation in public for a video is cool, but the issue is obviously when they say they speak it implying theyre fluent even if they dont specifically say that theyre fluent
What you think I'm fake 😅.. I mean my channel was fake?? Yah i love language speaking.. and this is my goal I want to be a successful polyglot ✨.. my channel about how much I speak languages . And how I am learning..😊 I always saying my channel------- ⚠️Disclaimer⚠️ this video only for language learning, polyglot speaking challenge, language challenge, what different way to say different languages speaking,or entertainment.. this video it's my own making video. not harm anybody..😊
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 actually really glad someone made a video about this dude because he pops up in my recommended every once in a while and i watched a video of his out of curiosity and just found them incredibly negative. i don't think there's anything wrong with a GOOD breakdown of someone who genuinely is misrepresenting their own level whether intentionally or not. i enjoyed days of french and swedish's video about nathaniel drew and ikennas learning a language in a week thing. videos like this can actually be informative (for people who don't know much about the language learning process) but this sam dude is just harassing people.
I really liked that video from Days of Swedish and French that you're talking about, about "I learned X in two weeks". It was critical while still staying respectful. We need more voices like that. As I mention at the end, we really ought to be aware that UA-cam videos provide a limited perspective because creators cannot include every mistake or stutter or the hundreds of hours staring at a textbook. Therefore, a viewer should not expect that they can also speak without stutters or pauses to think. What Sam is doing is pure harassment.
I’m glad I didn’t come across this. I have had some really good UA-cam videos that do help. I can finally speak Spanish and just a tiny bit of French and German. It took me five years to really become good at Spanish. But I am pretty old.
This was not the channel I expected you to talk about when I saw this video! I remember stumbling on this guy's channel and thinking about the amount of negativity he had towards the polyglot community. But the moment he said something along the lines of "I didn't watch their videos..." I pretty much gave up. You've done so much better than I, in making it through so much of his content. I salute you for it lol. Love your video, and agree, seems like this guy has some baggage and is definitely in need of an online hug.
He even came for Richard Simcott! I personally found his videos very encouraging, i wish this guy who tries to expose everyone would listen to the advice that the people he "exposes" gives and would focus on his own learning. So sad spending so much time hating others, they're making progress while you just complain!
Yea i saw him spam his live stream people linked a video where Richard Simcott spoke a few languages but he just kept claiming Richard Simcott can only speak English.
Actually, everything is scripted on TV shows and in videos, and the agcy controls all media / TV / contents etc and all trends and all tech and all industries etc, which were all made by them - despite repeating a lot the same things over and over, he does make some valid points! For example, self-proclaimed polyglots only speak one or two languages really fluently, while being beginner level or intermediate level or only learning certain phrases and certain words that are asked and answered a lot (and planning the questions & answers beforehand) in most others! When someone isn’t an English speaker, he can usually speak his first language fluently and then English also fluently or almost fluently and some speak English as a first language, as English is the easiest and the most used languages, so almost everyone can speak English nowadays, and sometimes one may also be fluent enough in another language, such as Spanish or Italian or French or Dutch or German etc, which are also very easy to learn!
Very few beings can learn a language fast and multiple languages fast, as it takes inteIIigence or at least some mental acuity - so only I can do that fast & also all my protectors who are all top agents (because we possess the rare quality inteI / IQ aka logic and are a fast-thinker with total mentaI acuity) and, a few other agents that I haven’t met yet can also learn faster than most (because they have some mentaI acuity) and maybe a few others as well, but it’s usually agents, because that type of guy is usually recruited, while non-agents take years or even decades to learn a new language to fluency, and I also am the only one reflecting names such as Linda / Lindie etc and most other names that get misused (special names / big names / flower names / other nature related names / names that reflect a compIiment etc) and I am the only being reflecting big terms etc aka The Goddess / The Lady / The Queen / The Leader / The Princess / The Star etc, and most hum’ns misuse unsuitable names or unsuitable terms etc, which must be changed!
I am learning multiple languages at the same time, and mostly prioritizing Dutch and Norwegian and Welsh at the moment, which are the prettiest and most refined languages ever with the most pretty and poetic words, just like English - I learned over 8.000 base words in Dutch and over 3.500 base words in Norwegian (and in Swedish) in just a few months, and about 500 words in Welsh as I started learning Welsh about 1 or 2 months ago, but not every day tho! It is possible to learn fast, but only for a few - it depends mostly on inteI and / or mentaI acuity and also on having a lot of time, and I have all three, and, I have all the time in the worId because I don’t do anything, so I spend all time watching videos and learning languages and commenting! I remember that a good point was made in a video about most not having enough time to really learn the actual language, because hum’ns work, and they also have to edit the videos and film etc, which takes many hours or even days, which is why most only learn the basics and the sentences and words that are usually asked / said instead of learning every single word / random words etc, so one doesn’t really learn the language (thousands or tens of thousands of words and idioms and sayings etc) and only learn a small part of the language based on the things that are said the most, and this explains why most questions and most answers and most sentences are very similar in all the languages that one says he speaks in pretty much every video one makes, and one tends to practice those very well!
The language learning trend was also started by the agcy, in order to create content to teach me the pretty / important languages, which is why most of the pretty languages have the best types of videos (well-explained and to the point and usually HD and entertaining to watch) that are meant to get me to fluency as fast as possible - and also to teach others / educate others in the process! As the agcy decided every move, and knowing all the tricks they taught the ones that make the content, for every group of famous ppl that teach languages learning or that say they can speak many languages fluently etc, the agcy also makes sure to get someone or a group of ppl that show those tricks to the viewers, and this goes for everything else, not just in the language learning community! So that is why some make that type of videos, and showing details that others haven’t noticed or thought about!
Oh my God. Did you see his latest videos attacking Lindie? I just hope she is too busy with her wedding preparations and her postgraduate degree to watch them. Poor Lindie 😢
He's gone off the rails with regard to Lindie, seemingly because she made reference in one of her videos to "sad men in their parents' basement". He took this comment very personally and also seems to think it proves she's American because of its origins in American popular culture, completely ignoring the fact it's a well worn trope across modern Western culture now. He's filing police reports against her for scamming, but thinks she will pay off the police to stop anything happening. He's completely deranged and deluded and I hope he never actually encounters any of these people.
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…
11:26 You can actually tell that her first language is NOT English when she says, 'I took school in English.' That would be considered poor grammar elsewhere, but it is a common pattern of speech for South Africans. 🤷♀️
I genuinely worry what might happen of Sam gets anywhere near any of these content creators. He seems insane. Also, while his English is good and he deserves credit for learning what he has learned, he's nowhere near articulate enough for what he is trying to do. Most of his videos are just him repeating the same claims over and over again. It's just deranged ramblings. I don't understand why he is so convinced of all this. Also, he criticised people for looking away from the camera. He insists people should keep looking at the camera constantly. I literally never look at the camera when I'm video calling for any reason - I look at the screen, where the other person's face is.
Question, are you a fake polyglot youtuber scammer? Lol. I just watch his video about you lol, he wants to meet you and test your language skills with other native speakers of his choosing. I think you should take up that offer to prove to him you not a scammer... some people will say you have nothing to prove but maybe to him you do, if I was a real youtuber polyglot it's exactly what I would do. Goodluck
Fake polyglots definitely exist but this guy takes it way too far by just calling random people fake polyglots without any evidence. He also spams comment sections and tries to harass other people. He's basically just an angry, middle aged man full of hate and resentment towards...something. I feel sorry for him.
Omg this is so sad like I would Never start a channel because of people like this. I'm so glad once again for your channel and ahhh you are so awesome 😀
I make a habit of subscribing to every person he slanders. And I've found some great fellow language learners that way! These are great folks who don't deserve his insanity.
What I found interesting to 'catch' fake polyglots in the act, is to introduce them to an extremely distinct or indistinguishable language that can only be accessed through resources like family relations. I tried this on a narcissist in my high school who had the intent of learning languages to be a jerk and cause dramas and rumors in my cohort, and told him to learn my mother's mother tongue, Tuwali. Though isn't endangered, but is hard to access through the internet or books. And he just used the most broken, obsolete and outdated version of the language that he found from online resources. Most of the stunt he tried to pull was just broken grammar and loan words from Ilocano. My observation is: if someone is truly trying to inspire you to learn languages, especially via online platforms like UA-cam, their intention is meant to inspire. Not to hog you into buying their 'whatever' subscription, or the suspicious use of repeated textbook phrases. And if a so called proclaimed polyglot can't even paraphrase what they're saying in another language, then it should become clear that they're faking hard affff.
Who is reporting him? I have been watching his videos since June 2021 and I just find him to be funny. Also, he is wrong, reading a text in a foreign language does mean you know the language.
@@jamesatem6046 I don't know, I think people in the polyglot community are denouncing him as a useless harassment of UA-camrs. even if it's funny he's making those videos like 4 or 5 yes he may be right they're fake youtuber polyglotas but others he doesn't have concrete evidence to call scammers.
@@PetraStaal I am actually surprised to see that people are reporting him. His videos are for entertainment purposes and it is just for fun. Relax is not like he is threatening people or something awful.
I'm a little late to the party but I kinda want to point out the fact that this man is clearly suffering from paranoid delusions. Calling him insane and laughing about it is kind of mean spirited in my opinion. This is a man in a very bad space, mental health wise, who sadly has an audience of hundreds, if not thousands on the internet. That's not funny to me at all. More like profoundly sad. He needs help.
He sure knows a lot of profanity and nasty names to call people in English tho. Gotta give him credit for the extensive vocab 😀 I can understand his point with some cases, but he is so nasty about it that he makes it near-impossible to listen to him for more than a few minutes. I wanted to hear his argument but his videos are filled with pauses for him to spout foul language about "fake polyglots" every five seconds. I can't bear to sit thru it all. I think his intentions might be good, but I don't think he's bring fair. He sounds so spiteful that I can't help but feel as tho he got screwed by a language teacher at some point... Cheers !!!
Applaud efforts? Maybe. But I draw the line at claiming to speak a language that you're really very much beginner in - you know full well when someone says someone "speaks a language" they DON'T mean thy have a 100 word vocabulary and started last month. They MEAN, typically, basic proficiency, which would be on the order of a B2 level for European languages or HSK4 to 5 for Chinese. If you only know how to say "hi, my name is John, I live in America, I like pizza and apples, where is the bathroom, thanks, goodbye", sorry, but that's NOT what people mean and it's a lie, therefore, to mislead beginners into thinking you are better than you are. You MUST be able to hold a conversation to be telling the truth when you say you can "speak" a language. Anything less is at BEST a massive exaggeration.
End of the day, these polyglots willl come down to a few languages with which you can really use to their professional benefits. Knowing a bit of each won t serve much
His real argument is not only that they can't really speak the languages, it that they can't really speak and then try to sell you products. Take Benny Lewis and Steve kaufmann, two of the biggest con men in Language learning. They started selling product to help teach others how to learn a language while they were still beginners. It took Steve 40 years to get to a lower intermediate level in Chinese and he still struggles with it. He's not a person anyone should listen to when it comes to language learning. How about Lao Shu, he never claimed to be more than a language learner. But how many foreign languages did he know Fluently? 0. He was fluent in ZERO foreign languages, yet selling a product to teach others how to learn a language. Yes, the "Fake Polyglot Hunter" may be a little off the wall, but I understand where his anger is coming from. You said: "There's nothing to gain by lying". Not true. Benny, Steve and others have been making money from their lies for years. They have gained a lot of money.
Although I can understand your perspective, I still can't agree with the really generous premise you give him. I don't want to argue whether this guy or that guy speaks a language fluently enough. I do want to reject your assumption that someone needs to be fluent to speak publicly about language learning. I think every person from lesson 1 of A1 to totally fluent C2 has useful insight to share. If someone sells a useful tool that I, as the customer, think is valuable, I'll buy it. I'm not going to go through their videos with a fine-toothed comb to look for things to complain about. Should I spread hate about a watchmaker because he didn't carry a watch every single day? "This watchmaker is a conman because he didn't have the time memorized."
@@studywithalex I think you dodge the question a bit here. You say "If someone sells a useful tool..." The reason we think the tool might be useful is that it's being promoted by someone that claims to have learned several languages by using it. If they haven't really done that then it's a scam. Most of the polygots I've watched are selling something Olly and Steve put out entertaining videos but they're clearly advertorials for books and subscription websites. In itself I don't think that constitutes "scamming". There is a grey area: UA-camrs must be self-promoters and "professional polyglots" need to earn a living. But you get beyond a grey area if you start making videos promoting these tools if: (a) you exaggerate their effectiveness; (b) imply/say it's how you learned when you used a different method; (c) deliberately avoid talking about other methods or tools you don't make money on; (d) exaggerate how many languages you know and to what level in order to make yourself seen more of an authority on language learning so you can shift more product.
@@MrX_TV Well said! I think those four cases could be misleading. We ought to be aware that we are not getting the full story from anyone. I really like Olly's book series, but I do acknowledge that this is not the only way to improve my language. I can say that Olly is rebranding himself as "the book guy" and that is his niche. If you don't want to learn through short stories, that's fine; don't interact. I think case C is an unsolvable problem. It is impossible to promote one method of language learning while also always providing a disclaimer in every video that "this is one of many methods to learn a language and it might not work for everyone." I think that's common sense, and it is not scamming not to provide that obvious information. In an extreme example, bread companies don't need to claim this is only of many ways to get carbohydrates in your diet, and this bread may not be right for you. The consumer is not that dumb; we know that. Case A, B, and D that you mention are real and very misleading, and I don't support that at all. As it pertains to this video and "hunting fake polyglots," I do not think I have noticed it from the people he harasses, but I do agree with the principle that A, B, C, and D are cases we ought to have in the back of our minds at all times. I agree fully.
Agree with the marketing part, lots of people are making their livelihood with UA-cam nowadays, not only "polyglots". As for me, I rely on people common sense and you can choose to buy a product and have the right to complain if you're not satisfied with it. But this hunter guy has no arguments, it's just blinded hatred like "he is reading a script from a paper" (because he looked down or away from the camera) I heard him saying that in a video of Luca Lampariello when he was actually speaking Italian... His mother tongue.
This is a REALLY bizarre genre to be having drama. This has to be practically impossible to fake and maintain the lie for any length of time so firstly why tf would you try, and secondly speaking lots of languages isn't like, an extremely monetizable skill from what I can tell, on social media at least. I'm sure it has lots of marketability as a job skill.
Sam thinks Lamont from Days of French and Swedish (I can't remember his new channel name) bought a house from scamming people. A house! Sure with 62 K subs. 😄(no disrespect to Lamont, I love his videos)
@@PetraStaal if faking it can buy you a house, sign me UP!!! Yeah, I didn't touch on it here, but faking being a polyglot is way too much effort for too little return.
Cry more, everyone is done with the fake polyglots selling courses promising youll be fluent in a day. I guess someone is sad their course isnt selling?
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...
A bit late to the party here (oops) but what I find mindboggling about this individual is that he could very well, if he wanted to, make occasional "takedown" videos of actual fake polyglots, or rather, he could point out in a concise & coherent way (while being friendly and critiquing in good faith of course) as to why a particular youtuber might be lying, or exaggerating their language skills. A great example of said critique/takedown of a fake polyglot, I would say, would be someone like Benny Lewis. From my experience of lurking over the years in language forums, reddit, youtube, etc, I have noticed how much he lied and exaggerated his language skills (and in quite a few cases, he literally scammed some people). When people would give him constructive criticism, he would often write back really nasty replies, often saying things like "I see you have been learning x language for 3 years but you still aren't at a high enough lvl, its not my fault you chose to use a terrible method rather than trying something else". He would constantly exaggerate his levels in certain languages, as well as lie about how long it took him to get to a high level, for instance, claiming he learned Egyptian Arabic to a B2 level in three months, or Hungarian to a B1 level in a similar amount of time. With all of this in mind (and my apologies for the huge body of text lol) I saw quite a few of this guys videos about Benny Lewis (I couldnt get through them all, rather I skipped through them cause they were so painful to watch) and I was expecting him to shed light on some of the many instances where Benny lied about his skills/the time it took him to learn x language, but literally there was no valid criticism in sight, literally nothing, just him yelling "FAKE FAKE FAKE, SCAM SCAM SCAM, EDITED VIDEO SEE HE EDITED VIDEO! FAKE POLYGLOT". Like I think it isn't an exaggeration to say that all of this dudes videos are more or less the same, just a bunch of rage and incoherency. He could have easily made a 10 min or so video of him critiquing some1 like Benny Lewis, or Nathaniel Drew explaining step by step as to why and how they are not real polyglots, or how they are lying to their audiences. Anyways, I just wanted to say thank you for this video! I really enjoyed it, and felt that you had a very concise takedown of this this very sad and spiteful individual, and I cannot wait to check out your other videos! Subbed! (also my apologies again for the really long text lol)
Agreed - it's so important for learners stay in reality, but social media by its nature will distort reality, whether it's in good faith or bad faith by the creator, so a kind and respectful video of all these distortions is always welcome in my book.
I remember when this guy turned up on a livestream with Richard Simcott. It was pretty hilarious actually and at one point Richard was a bit exasperated and asked him why he wasn't speaking in any other languages. For this guy everyone seems to be American and a fake. Notably I've never seen him on a video where the discussion is on multiple langauges, but the video is not is English. He's crazy.
@@SpencerLowe-kg4rg Many of the 'internet famous' polyglots seem to be people from native English backgrounds, which somewhat contradicts the common view.
I think he portrays all his hatred to those who have achieved what he has never been able to achieve: to master a foreign language, taking into account his poor level in English and French. Too much frustration I hear from his videos
I sort of suspect that the whole "Danish" bit is made up as well, Danes tend to be very good at English. I also don't hear any Danish accent in is English, he sounds like he's either lying or never really cared about the "Danish" side of his family (if that even is true).
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)
I am also a Fake Scammer who needs to go to Maximum Security Prison. I prefer the term amateur-linguist when describing myself, but hey, if "Sam" calls me a polyglot one day, then I will know that I have made it! Great Video, By the way. - Maple Cheers from Canada.
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.
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)
Sometimes I am really sick of some people having arguments about this topic. Let us not forget that we speak a language because we want to communicate to people. Nowadays, I see that people are very, very concerned on things like: "you have an accent", "this is not the way we say it in x country (but deep inside they understood what people meant to say)", "no, the correct pronunciation is... (but the so called mistake is almost imperceptible)." Many people from many countries speak at least 2 local languages and many of them also know English. Many Indians can surprise us when we see that they speak Hindi, Marathi, Tamil... Many people from Central Asia speak their native language, Russian, and many of them speak Turkish too. Why would it be uncommon or a surprise to see someone claiming to speak 4 or 5 or 6 languages? There are scammers, hundred percent sure of that, but also... Come on, many people speak more than 3 languages hahaha
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...
I think that maybe Sam got "scammed", or failed to become fluent using a language app that some polyglot suggested. There are some pretty unrealistic expectations sold in the polyglot world to be honest and he seems like someone who probably fell for it.
@@studywithalex everyone seems to think learning a language is easy but it is a fair amount of time and work, "conversational in 1 months just 1 hour per day" In general, not going to happen.
“There’s no gain to lying” Are you that naive? 🤔 Also, he’s clearly being a dick by harassing the first guy into speaking different languages live on his stream, but the guy just had to do so, and he would have shut his mouth 🤷🏻♂️ We can say he did the mature thing by responding calmly and kindly, but he’s also enabling the other guy to pursue his harassment, while in the meantime leaving the possibility lingering that he actually really is a fake polyglot I also disagree with your take on polyglots reading from scripts Of course there’s nothing wrong about having notes, but still, first that has norhing to do with acting, that comparison makes no sens, and even if it would, it would be more detrimental to your point than beneficial, because polyglots are not actors, and they are not acting when they do a live stream or even a youtube video And also, you can very easily read “fluently” a language that you are familiar with, even if you can’t actually speak it I can’t speak Italian, but I am familiar with the language, and I can speak French and Spanish fluently, and with that, I can very easily read Italian with a decent accent and decent pronunciation, and trick people into believing I can speak fluently, even if I only understand 20% of what I am reading So his point is valid His methods and mindset are questionable, but his goal makes sens: There are a lot of fake polyglots out there scamming people, and he is right to confront them The only thing your video does is giving me the feeling that you are actually trying to protect fake polyglots 🤷🏻♂️
When I found out his channel, I was just rolling my eyes and shaking my head at his nonsense. I felt so frustrated, plus I couldn't reply to him. So thank you for giving me a space where I can interact with reasonable people and calm down lol. The way you addressed this touchy topic is classy, entertaining, kind, thoughtful and your voice is so soothing... 😊 Also, I almost cried when you said "don't compare yourself with others", because it's a real issue for me. I always feel less gifted compared to those hyper polyglots and I have a lack of self esteem. 😔 But you're right, social media are just a part of someone's life and I should be proud of my (slow) progress 💪 You've gained a subscriber 🙏 J'ai hâte de découvrir tes autres vidéos (je suis française ^^)
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).
This person seems a bit crazed. However, it's a bad start with you and Colelangs refuting it. What's the point in pretending you know all these languages? Oh I don't know. It's a whole business model online. Maybe not having to work at the local supermarket. The answer is obvious and the performative disbelief is silly and a little suspicious. Yes people do make things up on the internet to get attention. And sometimes on the internet attention is money.
Your arguments are not good. Obviously people write scripts. But you know what he is getting at. If you claim to be proficient in a language you should be conversationally fluent. Thus able to speak the language without detailed prompts. It is obviously much easier to find phrases or even a speech and practice reciting it. To your acting example there are many actors who speak lines in a foreign language that they don't understand and would not be able to hold a similar conversation because they have been taught wrote recitation. Does that mean that because you have a script that you are a scammer? Of course not. It is also a skill which requires learning but it is not the same as being fluent in a language. It's a red flag when people take the most shallow possible version of an argument and refute that.
That guy always torn off comments in his videos, probably because he doesn't want people tell him that he's always dishonest when he speaks about polyglot UA-camrs.
Fake polyglot youtubers deserve to be exposed and lose money. No different than exposing a fake business guru or a snakeoil salesman. The guy may go beyond, of course 😂😂😂😂 but I know when the majority of youtube polyglots are lying, because, their lips are moving. 😂😂😂
GREAT video, and a breath of fresh air - I've been watching videos of SO many countless fake polyglots making total asses of themselves, and you, Alex, are one of the few who has exposed them. It takes a person who is actually university educated in a foreign language to comprehend this. That's me. Those videos are comedy routines more than anything else, such as an Asian guy claiming to be from both Spain & Argentina because he can do a fake accent from each nation. I also saw a British guy doing fake accents from every region of Great Britain. That'd be not too different from a Puerto Rican guy claiming to be from both Texas and New York.
Genuine polyglots are EXTREMELY few and very far between - When you learn a foreign language, if you can communicate as fluently as the average 15 year old kid, then you've surely "arrived" in some fashion; the problem ... ? MANY people claiming to be "fluent" can barely speak a foreign language as well as a 10 year old - Moreover, knowing a foreign includes many components and related skills, not all of which are equal to other skills. Ok, so we can speak: But can we comprehend virtually anything said to us? Or can we read the language well enough to understand a newspaper? If we need to write a simple note to somebody, are they likely to understand it? Is our pronunciation up to the point where we can be very easily understood by native speakers? Some skilled people here and there manage to fake it with superlative pronunciation, but their vocabulary may be virtually non-existent.
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.
He reacted to one of my videos. As soon as there was a jump cut, he called me fake. When I said I was a language teacher he said that was bullshit. When I said Luca Lampariello spoke amazing French (which is true), he called me a scammer. This guy is wild lol
He's has emotional issues .. 😄 His latest "exposé" is on Zoe where he calls her the "B" word ..
He thinks Luca Lampariello is American and doesn’t speak Italian!
I mean, Luca speaks English well and not at all like an Italian would, but he’s clearly not a native English speaker, lol.
@@JosephOccenoBFH Yeah, and the C and W words too. It's awful. This guy is a nasty piece of work!
Actually, everything is scripted on TV shows and in videos, and the agcy controls all media / TV / contents etc and all trends and all tech and all industries etc, which were all made by them - despite repeating a lot the same things over and over, he does make some valid points! For example, self-proclaimed polyglots only speak one or two languages really fluently, while being beginner level or intermediate level or only learning certain phrases and certain words that are asked and answered a lot (and planning the questions & answers beforehand) in most others! When someone isn’t an English speaker, he can usually speak his first language fluently and then English also fluently or almost fluently and some speak English as a first language, as English is the easiest and the most used languages, so almost everyone can speak English nowadays, and sometimes one may also be fluent enough in another language, such as Spanish or Italian or French or Dutch or German etc, which are also very easy to learn!
Very few beings can learn a language fast and multiple languages fast, as it takes inteIIigence or at least some mental acuity - so only I can do that fast & also all my protectors who are all top agents (because we possess the rare quality inteI / IQ aka logic and are a fast-thinker with total mentaI acuity) and, a few other agents that I haven’t met yet can also learn faster than most (because they have some mentaI acuity) and maybe a few others as well, but it’s usually agents, because that type of guy is usually recruited, while non-agents take years or even decades to learn a new language to fluency, and I also am the only one reflecting names such as Linda / Lindie etc and most other names that get misused (special names / big names / flower names / other nature related names / names that reflect a compIiment etc) and I am the only being reflecting big terms etc aka The Goddess / The Lady / The Queen / The Leader / The Princess / The Star etc, and most hum’ns misuse unsuitable names or unsuitable terms etc, which must be changed!
I am so glad you made a video about this, I have seen his videos a couple of times and his claims are ridiculous. There might be fake polyglots out there, but blinking or making some cuts on a video does not account for that 😂😂😂
I've seen him too😂😂😂
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.
As someone who personally knows most of these UA-camrs, I came across this hater a while back, and I also found the "situation" very sad. I hope he gets the support he needs, as he probably doesn't realize the damage he caused. Thank you for exposing this account and sharing your thoughts in the most respectful way!
This guy is insane. He is like "oh no he just blinked, why keep closing and opening your eyes, he is a scammer"
90% of these alleged polyglots couldn’t hold a conversation in 3 languages to save their life.
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.
What is your native language?
This person has a lot of free time, geez., might as well use this time to study new languages since he's so obsessed. But I guess he knows how to gain views with clickbait
Yep, it's easy to direct hate at polyglots but he is doing more harm than good.
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.
That's true, but now you're heading more into the question is what is the definition of "speaking a language" because that person who speaks 3 words of Bengali or Telugu still speaks 3 more words of Bengali or Telugu than most Americans or Europeans, and C1 people are not the only people who are qualified to talk about the experience of learning.
@@studywithalex Speaking a language is different from being C1 in a language. I agree with you on that. However, words have meanings. If I speak a language below A2 level, I'd never dare to say I speak it. I would say I know some X language. In my case, I say I speak Portuguese (n), English, French and Italian. My spoken Italian is quite limited, but I can read almost effortlessly in Italian and understand almost everything I hear. I may or may not say I speak Spanish, which is a language that I learned without trying and being able to understand in songs and in literature from the get-go. I never speak Spanish though, and would most certainly transfer a lot of my Portuguese to it. German is a language that I am close to reach an A1 level, and I wouldn't say I speak, maybe a tiny bit, as now I am starting to be able to follow texts written in A1 or A2 levels. I've read a few books in Catalan, but I don't speak it. I've read a book in Neapolitan, but I don't speak it.
@@RogerRamos1993 I'm very much the same. I'm really careful with the words I use to describe my levels because we still live in this world where people take "speak" or "know" very seriously in language learning.
I think we can blame some of this to the limited character count of UA-cam videos or social media posts that cannot express all the shades of gray you're describing.
The way this obsessive maniac calls all these language people "scammers", "mf@#rs" "bullshit" and "liars" is unbelievable. It's like he has nothing better to do with his life nor with his channel.
Never seen any of the hyper polyglots get tested by professionals.
Wow, i'm really surprised with the confidence of this guy to make all the videos about the "scammers". Congratulations Alex for explaining the situation with class and letring things be clear
My main problem with that dude's channel is that he has comments disabled. I wish we could get on his channel and challenge his views.
You can go over to his channel and leave a comment on his latest videos now. 😀
But don't be rude or he will block you.and disable comments again. 😄
He made a video about this video lol.
I was cackling lmaooo so predictable
@@studywithalex yep, you got that right.
This guy is definitely going about it the wrong way, but these 'polyglots' are definitely fake. Especially that guy in the first part that claimed to speak 13 languages. That's absolute BS.
Him cussing at and insulting Professor Alexander Arguelles is just utter disrespect.
That guy may have some issues but one cannot deny that youtube is filled with attention seekers claiming to speak so many languages when they only learn a few phrases just to impress or make money from their videos. Some language youtubers are genuine and make really useful and inspiring videos because they are not trying to impress. To me, the omegle type of videos or street videos with super short conversations (always saying the same thing) are just useless.
THIS.
The only type of street videos that I like are the ones from the Easy Languages team.
@@PetraStaal Very true!
Actually, everything is scripted on TV shows and in videos, and the agcy controls all media / TV / contents etc and all trends and all tech and all industries etc, which were all made by them - despite repeating a lot the same things over and over, he does make some valid points! For example, self-proclaimed polyglots only speak one or two languages really fluently, while being beginner level or intermediate level or only learning certain phrases and certain words that are asked and answered a lot (and planning the questions & answers beforehand) in most others! When someone isn’t an English speaker, he can usually speak his first language fluently and then English also fluently or almost fluently and some speak English as a first language, as English is the easiest and the most used languages, so almost everyone can speak English nowadays, and sometimes one may also be fluent enough in another language, such as Spanish or Italian or French or Dutch or German etc, which are also very easy to learn!
Very few beings can learn a language fast and multiple languages fast, as it takes inteIIigence or at least some mental acuity - so only I can do that fast & also all my protectors who are all top agents (because we possess the rare quality inteI / IQ aka logic and are a fast-thinker with total mentaI acuity) and, a few other agents that I haven’t met yet can also learn faster than most (because they have some mentaI acuity) and maybe a few others as well, but it’s usually agents, because that type of guy is usually recruited, while non-agents take years or even decades to learn a new language to fluency, and I also am the only one reflecting names such as Linda / Lindie etc and most other names that get misused (special names / big names / flower names / other nature related names / names that reflect a compIiment etc) and I am the only being reflecting big terms etc aka The Goddess / The Lady / The Queen / The Leader / The Princess / The Star etc, and most hum’ns misuse unsuitable names or unsuitable terms etc, which must be changed!
i think that learning the bare minimum of a bunch of languages to maybe have a short conversation in public for a video is cool, but the issue is obviously when they say they speak it implying theyre fluent even if they dont specifically say that theyre fluent
"rabbit hole" is indeed the best word, for a lack of another one, to describe this megalomaniac's channel, lol.
What you think I'm fake 😅.. I mean my channel was fake?? Yah i love language speaking.. and this is my goal I want to be a successful polyglot ✨.. my channel about how much I speak languages . And how I am learning..😊
I always saying my channel-------
⚠️Disclaimer⚠️
this video only for language learning, polyglot speaking challenge, language challenge, what different way to say different languages speaking,or entertainment.. this video it's my own making video. not harm anybody..😊
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.
And so, if I ever become a polyglot, I will make sure and learn how to insult in every one. I have no tome for the BS.
i'm actually really glad someone made a video about this dude because he pops up in my recommended every once in a while and i watched a video of his out of curiosity and just found them incredibly negative. i don't think there's anything wrong with a GOOD breakdown of someone who genuinely is misrepresenting their own level whether intentionally or not. i enjoyed days of french and swedish's video about nathaniel drew and ikennas learning a language in a week thing. videos like this can actually be informative (for people who don't know much about the language learning process) but this sam dude is just harassing people.
I really liked that video from Days of Swedish and French that you're talking about, about "I learned X in two weeks". It was critical while still staying respectful. We need more voices like that.
As I mention at the end, we really ought to be aware that UA-cam videos provide a limited perspective because creators cannot include every mistake or stutter or the hundreds of hours staring at a textbook. Therefore, a viewer should not expect that they can also speak without stutters or pauses to think.
What Sam is doing is pure harassment.
I’m glad I didn’t come across this. I have had some really good UA-cam videos that do help. I can finally speak Spanish and just a tiny bit of French and German. It took me five years to really become good at Spanish. But I am pretty old.
This was not the channel I expected you to talk about when I saw this video! I remember stumbling on this guy's channel and thinking about the amount of negativity he had towards the polyglot community. But the moment he said something along the lines of "I didn't watch their videos..." I pretty much gave up. You've done so much better than I, in making it through so much of his content. I salute you for it lol. Love your video, and agree, seems like this guy has some baggage and is definitely in need of an online hug.
The internet is full of crazy people just ignore him.
He even came for Richard Simcott! I personally found his videos very encouraging, i wish this guy who tries to expose everyone would listen to the advice that the people he "exposes" gives and would focus on his own learning. So sad spending so much time hating others, they're making progress while you just complain!
Yea i saw him spam his live stream people linked a video where Richard Simcott spoke a few languages but he just kept claiming Richard Simcott can only speak English.
Actually, everything is scripted on TV shows and in videos, and the agcy controls all media / TV / contents etc and all trends and all tech and all industries etc, which were all made by them - despite repeating a lot the same things over and over, he does make some valid points! For example, self-proclaimed polyglots only speak one or two languages really fluently, while being beginner level or intermediate level or only learning certain phrases and certain words that are asked and answered a lot (and planning the questions & answers beforehand) in most others! When someone isn’t an English speaker, he can usually speak his first language fluently and then English also fluently or almost fluently and some speak English as a first language, as English is the easiest and the most used languages, so almost everyone can speak English nowadays, and sometimes one may also be fluent enough in another language, such as Spanish or Italian or French or Dutch or German etc, which are also very easy to learn!
Very few beings can learn a language fast and multiple languages fast, as it takes inteIIigence or at least some mental acuity - so only I can do that fast & also all my protectors who are all top agents (because we possess the rare quality inteI / IQ aka logic and are a fast-thinker with total mentaI acuity) and, a few other agents that I haven’t met yet can also learn faster than most (because they have some mentaI acuity) and maybe a few others as well, but it’s usually agents, because that type of guy is usually recruited, while non-agents take years or even decades to learn a new language to fluency, and I also am the only one reflecting names such as Linda / Lindie etc and most other names that get misused (special names / big names / flower names / other nature related names / names that reflect a compIiment etc) and I am the only being reflecting big terms etc aka The Goddess / The Lady / The Queen / The Leader / The Princess / The Star etc, and most hum’ns misuse unsuitable names or unsuitable terms etc, which must be changed!
I am learning multiple languages at the same time, and mostly prioritizing Dutch and Norwegian and Welsh at the moment, which are the prettiest and most refined languages ever with the most pretty and poetic words, just like English - I learned over 8.000 base words in Dutch and over 3.500 base words in Norwegian (and in Swedish) in just a few months, and about 500 words in Welsh as I started learning Welsh about 1 or 2 months ago, but not every day tho! It is possible to learn fast, but only for a few - it depends mostly on inteI and / or mentaI acuity and also on having a lot of time, and I have all three, and, I have all the time in the worId because I don’t do anything, so I spend all time watching videos and learning languages and commenting! I remember that a good point was made in a video about most not having enough time to really learn the actual language, because hum’ns work, and they also have to edit the videos and film etc, which takes many hours or even days, which is why most only learn the basics and the sentences and words that are usually asked / said instead of learning every single word / random words etc, so one doesn’t really learn the language (thousands or tens of thousands of words and idioms and sayings etc) and only learn a small part of the language based on the things that are said the most, and this explains why most questions and most answers and most sentences are very similar in all the languages that one says he speaks in pretty much every video one makes, and one tends to practice those very well!
The language learning trend was also started by the agcy, in order to create content to teach me the pretty / important languages, which is why most of the pretty languages have the best types of videos (well-explained and to the point and usually HD and entertaining to watch) that are meant to get me to fluency as fast as possible - and also to teach others / educate others in the process! As the agcy decided every move, and knowing all the tricks they taught the ones that make the content, for every group of famous ppl that teach languages learning or that say they can speak many languages fluently etc, the agcy also makes sure to get someone or a group of ppl that show those tricks to the viewers, and this goes for everything else, not just in the language learning community! So that is why some make that type of videos, and showing details that others haven’t noticed or thought about!
Oh my God. Did you see his latest videos attacking Lindie? I just hope she is too busy with her wedding preparations and her postgraduate degree to watch them. Poor Lindie 😢
He's gone off the rails with regard to Lindie, seemingly because she made reference in one of her videos to "sad men in their parents' basement". He took this comment very personally and also seems to think it proves she's American because of its origins in American popular culture, completely ignoring the fact it's a well worn trope across modern Western culture now. He's filing police reports against her for scamming, but thinks she will pay off the police to stop anything happening. He's completely deranged and deluded and I hope he never actually encounters any of these people.
She literally finally noticed him.
@@plashplash-fg6hd She knows about his videos for at least seven months.
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…
Lindie is indeed South African but she grew up as a third culture kid in several countries. Her dad has a much stronger Afrikaans accent.
11:26 You can actually tell that her first language is NOT English when she says, 'I took school in English.' That would be considered poor grammar elsewhere, but it is a common pattern of speech for South Africans. 🤷♀️
If Sam spoke Afrikaans he wouldn't even question her ability to speak Afrikaans for one second.
His channel is also an example of how shadowbanning works.
I genuinely worry what might happen of Sam gets anywhere near any of these content creators. He seems insane. Also, while his English is good and he deserves credit for learning what he has learned, he's nowhere near articulate enough for what he is trying to do. Most of his videos are just him repeating the same claims over and over again. It's just deranged ramblings. I don't understand why he is so convinced of all this.
Also, he criticised people for looking away from the camera. He insists people should keep looking at the camera constantly. I literally never look at the camera when I'm video calling for any reason - I look at the screen, where the other person's face is.
Sam is very entertaining and funny. 😂 Im glad I ran into this guy.
Question, are you a fake polyglot youtuber scammer? Lol. I just watch his video about you lol, he wants to meet you and test your language skills with other native speakers of his choosing. I think you should take up that offer to prove to him you not a scammer... some people will say you have nothing to prove but maybe to him you do, if I was a real youtuber polyglot it's exactly what I would do. Goodluck
Mistake #1: assuming anything would change his delusions 😂
I love ColeLangs. He's got a video where he has a half hour convo with a guy in Portuguese. That takes a lot more than memorizing a few sentences.
Come out of that rabbit hole, you belong in jail. You are a scammer.🤡😅
Thank you for making this video, I was nodding the whole time! Well done👍
Fake polyglots definitely exist but this guy takes it way too far by just calling random people fake polyglots without any evidence. He also spams comment sections and tries to harass other people. He's basically just an angry, middle aged man full of hate and resentment towards...something. I feel sorry for him.
I stopped feeling sorry for him when he started calling women disgusting names. That really pissed me off!
Wonder what that "something" is. Maybe he couldn't get views trying to be a decent UA-camr.
Nothing to gain by lying on UA-cam? Yeah, this guy has issues but there is such a thing as being too kind. This borders on naivete.
Omg this is so sad like I would Never start a channel because of people like this. I'm so glad once again for your channel and ahhh you are so awesome 😀
I make a habit of subscribing to every person he slanders. And I've found some great fellow language learners that way! These are great folks who don't deserve his insanity.
I feel like he's similar to Nikocado Avocado. Truly deranged content but also so fascinating at the same time.
What I found interesting to 'catch' fake polyglots in the act, is to introduce them to an extremely distinct or indistinguishable language that can only be accessed through resources like family relations.
I tried this on a narcissist in my high school who had the intent of learning languages to be a jerk and cause dramas and rumors in my cohort, and told him to learn my mother's mother tongue, Tuwali. Though isn't endangered, but is hard to access through the internet or books. And he just used the most broken, obsolete and outdated version of the language that he found from online resources. Most of the stunt he tried to pull was just broken grammar and loan words from Ilocano.
My observation is: if someone is truly trying to inspire you to learn languages, especially via online platforms like UA-cam, their intention is meant to inspire. Not to hog you into buying their 'whatever' subscription, or the suspicious use of repeated textbook phrases. And if a so called proclaimed polyglot can't even paraphrase what they're saying in another language, then it should become clear that they're faking hard affff.
I think they are reporting him
Who is reporting him? I have been watching his videos since June 2021 and I just find him to be funny. Also, he is wrong, reading a text in a foreign language does mean you know the language.
@@jamesatem6046 I don't know, I think people in the polyglot community are denouncing him as a useless harassment of UA-camrs.
even if it's funny he's making those videos like 4 or 5 yes he may be right they're fake youtuber polyglotas but others he doesn't have concrete evidence to call scammers.
@@jamesatem6046 I reported a couple of videos, but I don't know if UA-cam took those down because Sam removed some other videos as well.
@@PetraStaal I am actually surprised to see that people are reporting him. His videos are for entertainment purposes and it is just for fun. Relax is not like he is threatening people or something awful.
@@jamesatem6046 didn't you see the three videos of him wearing a monkey suit and holding a big knife threatening to kill all UA-cam polyglots?
I'm a little late to the party but I kinda want to point out the fact that this man is clearly suffering from paranoid delusions. Calling him insane and laughing about it is kind of mean spirited in my opinion. This is a man in a very bad space, mental health wise, who sadly has an audience of hundreds, if not thousands on the internet.
That's not funny to me at all. More like profoundly sad. He needs help.
He sure knows a lot of profanity and nasty names to call people in English tho. Gotta give him credit for the extensive vocab 😀
I can understand his point with some cases, but he is so nasty about it that he makes it near-impossible to listen to him for more than a few minutes.
I wanted to hear his argument but his videos are filled with pauses for him to spout foul language about "fake polyglots" every five seconds. I can't bear to sit thru it all.
I think his intentions might be good, but I don't think he's bring fair.
He sounds so spiteful that I can't help but feel as tho he got screwed by a language teacher at some point...
Cheers !!!
How depressing. Imagine living like that. Poor guy.
Hands down my fav video yet😂👍
I like this guy a lot. I subscribed to his "channel" the second I saw it.
Just his thumbnails make my day.
Very memeable lol
Applaud efforts? Maybe. But I draw the line at claiming to speak a language that you're really very much beginner in - you know full well when someone says someone "speaks a language" they DON'T mean thy have a 100 word vocabulary and started last month. They MEAN, typically, basic proficiency, which would be on the order of a B2 level for European languages or HSK4 to 5 for Chinese. If you only know how to say "hi, my name is John, I live in America, I like pizza and apples, where is the bathroom, thanks, goodbye", sorry, but that's NOT what people mean and it's a lie, therefore, to mislead beginners into thinking you are better than you are. You MUST be able to hold a conversation to be telling the truth when you say you can "speak" a language. Anything less is at BEST a massive exaggeration.
End of the day, these polyglots willl come down to a few languages with which you can really use to their professional benefits. Knowing a bit of each won t serve much
Is Xiaomanyc a scammer?
His real argument is not only that they can't really speak the languages, it that they can't really speak and then try to sell you products.
Take Benny Lewis and Steve kaufmann, two of the biggest con men in Language learning. They started selling product to help teach others how to learn a language while they were still beginners. It took Steve 40 years to get to a lower intermediate level in Chinese and he still struggles with it. He's not a person anyone should listen to when it comes to language learning.
How about Lao Shu, he never claimed to be more than a language learner. But how many foreign languages did he know Fluently? 0. He was fluent in ZERO foreign languages, yet selling a product to teach others how to learn a language.
Yes, the "Fake Polyglot Hunter" may be a little off the wall, but I understand where his anger is coming from.
You said: "There's nothing to gain by lying".
Not true. Benny, Steve and others have been making money from their lies for years. They have gained a lot of money.
Although I can understand your perspective, I still can't agree with the really generous premise you give him.
I don't want to argue whether this guy or that guy speaks a language fluently enough. I do want to reject your assumption that someone needs to be fluent to speak publicly about language learning. I think every person from lesson 1 of A1 to totally fluent C2 has useful insight to share.
If someone sells a useful tool that I, as the customer, think is valuable, I'll buy it. I'm not going to go through their videos with a fine-toothed comb to look for things to complain about.
Should I spread hate about a watchmaker because he didn't carry a watch every single day? "This watchmaker is a conman because he didn't have the time memorized."
@@studywithalex I think you dodge the question a bit here. You say "If someone sells a useful tool..." The reason we think the tool might be useful is that it's being promoted by someone that claims to have learned several languages by using it. If they haven't really done that then it's a scam.
Most of the polygots I've watched are selling something Olly and Steve put out entertaining videos but they're clearly advertorials for books and subscription websites. In itself I don't think that constitutes "scamming". There is a grey area: UA-camrs must be self-promoters and "professional polyglots" need to earn a living. But you get beyond a grey area if you start making videos promoting these tools if:
(a) you exaggerate their effectiveness; (b) imply/say it's how you learned when you used a different method; (c) deliberately avoid talking about other methods or tools you don't make money on; (d) exaggerate how many languages you know and to what level in order to make yourself seen more of an authority on language learning so you can shift more product.
@@MrX_TV Well said! I think those four cases could be misleading.
We ought to be aware that we are not getting the full story from anyone. I really like Olly's book series, but I do acknowledge that this is not the only way to improve my language. I can say that Olly is rebranding himself as "the book guy" and that is his niche. If you don't want to learn through short stories, that's fine; don't interact.
I think case C is an unsolvable problem. It is impossible to promote one method of language learning while also always providing a disclaimer in every video that "this is one of many methods to learn a language and it might not work for everyone." I think that's common sense, and it is not scamming not to provide that obvious information. In an extreme example, bread companies don't need to claim this is only of many ways to get carbohydrates in your diet, and this bread may not be right for you. The consumer is not that dumb; we know that.
Case A, B, and D that you mention are real and very misleading, and I don't support that at all.
As it pertains to this video and "hunting fake polyglots," I do not think I have noticed it from the people he harasses, but I do agree with the principle that A, B, C, and D are cases we ought to have in the back of our minds at all times.
I agree fully.
Agree with the marketing part, lots of people are making their livelihood with UA-cam nowadays, not only "polyglots". As for me, I rely on people common sense and you can choose to buy a product and have the right to complain if you're not satisfied with it. But this hunter guy has no arguments, it's just blinded hatred like "he is reading a script from a paper" (because he looked down or away from the camera) I heard him saying that in a video of Luca Lampariello when he was actually speaking Italian... His mother tongue.
This is a REALLY bizarre genre to be having drama. This has to be practically impossible to fake and maintain the lie for any length of time so firstly why tf would you try, and secondly speaking lots of languages isn't like, an extremely monetizable skill from what I can tell, on social media at least. I'm sure it has lots of marketability as a job skill.
Sam thinks Lamont from Days of French and Swedish (I can't remember his new channel name) bought a house from scamming people. A house! Sure with 62 K subs. 😄(no disrespect to Lamont, I love his videos)
@@PetraStaal if faking it can buy you a house, sign me UP!!!
Yeah, I didn't touch on it here, but faking being a polyglot is way too much effort for too little return.
0:21 ''fake liar'' hahahahahahahahahahhaha. Little did he know that a fake liar is someone who tells the truth 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Commas are important.
@@PetraStaal exactly haahhahaha.
Cry more, everyone is done with the fake polyglots selling courses promising youll be fluent in a day.
I guess someone is sad their course isnt selling?
15:19 the best part because of dubu dancing
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...
His videos are hypnotic 😆. They’re so bad that they’re good - I can’t explain it.
I laugh every time he says
“Fake shit human”
A bit late to the party here (oops) but what I find mindboggling about this individual is that he could very well, if he wanted to, make occasional "takedown" videos of actual fake polyglots, or rather, he could point out in a concise & coherent way (while being friendly and critiquing in good faith of course) as to why a particular youtuber might be lying, or exaggerating their language skills.
A great example of said critique/takedown of a fake polyglot, I would say, would be someone like Benny Lewis. From my experience of lurking over the years in language forums, reddit, youtube, etc, I have noticed how much he lied and exaggerated his language skills (and in quite a few cases, he literally scammed some people).
When people would give him constructive criticism, he would often write back really nasty replies, often saying things like "I see you have been learning x language for 3 years but you still aren't at a high enough lvl, its not my fault you chose to use a terrible method rather than trying something else". He would constantly exaggerate his levels in certain languages, as well as lie about how long it took him to get to a high level, for instance, claiming he learned Egyptian Arabic to a B2 level in three months, or Hungarian to a B1 level in a similar amount of time.
With all of this in mind (and my apologies for the huge body of text lol) I saw quite a few of this guys videos about Benny Lewis (I couldnt get through them all, rather I skipped through them cause they were so painful to watch) and I was expecting him to shed light on some of the many instances where Benny lied about his skills/the time it took him to learn x language, but literally there was no valid criticism in sight, literally nothing, just him yelling "FAKE FAKE FAKE, SCAM SCAM SCAM, EDITED VIDEO SEE HE EDITED VIDEO! FAKE POLYGLOT".
Like I think it isn't an exaggeration to say that all of this dudes videos are more or less the same, just a bunch of rage and incoherency. He could have easily made a 10 min or so video of him critiquing some1 like Benny Lewis, or Nathaniel Drew explaining step by step as to why and how they are not real polyglots, or how they are lying to their audiences.
Anyways, I just wanted to say thank you for this video! I really enjoyed it, and felt that you had a very concise takedown of this this very sad and spiteful individual, and I cannot wait to check out your other videos! Subbed! (also my apologies again for the really long text lol)
Agreed - it's so important for learners stay in reality, but social media by its nature will distort reality, whether it's in good faith or bad faith by the creator, so a kind and respectful video of all these distortions is always welcome in my book.
I remember when this guy turned up on a livestream with Richard Simcott. It was pretty hilarious actually and at one point Richard was a bit exasperated and asked him why he wasn't speaking in any other languages. For this guy everyone seems to be American and a fake. Notably I've never seen him on a video where the discussion is on multiple langauges, but the video is not is English. He's crazy.
I was in that livestream too. I remember Richard responding brilliantly "Oh, dear, calm down, have a glass of water" 😄
I call Sam a polyglotwappie.
I honestly think Americans are some of the best polyglots as opposed to the accusations although any polyglot can come from anywhere.
@@SpencerLowe-kg4rg Many of the 'internet famous' polyglots seem to be people from native English backgrounds, which somewhat contradicts the common view.
Sam is conspiracy theorist (everything is a conspiracy to him). His Anki fail is straight up hilarious though.
I love the way he says "bullshit". 😂
And then says "man" after every cussword. I also love the way he says "You should be in jeel".
@@glorifyenjoy I crack up every time he says jail.
"ah, bullshit with you man" 😄😄
I think he portrays all his hatred to those who have achieved what he has never been able to achieve: to master a foreign language, taking into account his poor level in English and French. Too much frustration I hear from his videos
I sort of suspect that the whole "Danish" bit is made up as well, Danes tend to be very good at English. I also don't hear any Danish accent in is English, he sounds like he's either lying or never really cared about the "Danish" side of his family (if that even is true).
Seriously, this guy 'sam' is so over the top to the point that he no longer is annoying but, damn hilarious 😂.
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)
I wonder when all of that came to him and what kind of people he actually recognize to be true polyglots. Just wonder 😅
“You are a fake polyglot scammer”
In my defense, you told me to write this. ❤
I am also a Fake Scammer who needs to go to Maximum Security Prison. I prefer the term amateur-linguist when describing myself, but hey, if "Sam" calls me a polyglot one day, then I will know that I have made it! Great Video, By the way. - Maple Cheers from Canada.
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.
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)
I thonk hes referring to the ones who have courses/ sell things
Sometimes I am really sick of some people having arguments about this topic. Let us not forget that we speak a language because we want to communicate to people. Nowadays, I see that people are very, very concerned on things like: "you have an accent", "this is not the way we say it in x country (but deep inside they understood what people meant to say)", "no, the correct pronunciation is... (but the so called mistake is almost imperceptible)."
Many people from many countries speak at least 2 local languages and many of them also know English. Many Indians can surprise us when we see that they speak Hindi, Marathi, Tamil... Many people from Central Asia speak their native language, Russian, and many of them speak Turkish too. Why would it be uncommon or a surprise to see someone claiming to speak 4 or 5 or 6 languages? There are scammers, hundred percent sure of that, but also... Come on, many people speak more than 3 languages hahaha
Sam is just so hilarious with his jealous accusational bashing. I cant stop laughing at him.
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...
I think that maybe Sam got "scammed", or failed to become fluent using a language app that some polyglot suggested.
There are some pretty unrealistic expectations sold in the polyglot world to be honest and he seems like someone who probably fell for it.
Right! I think the overly positive recommendations that some people make can really disappoint a lot of viewers who don't have full context.
@@studywithalex everyone seems to think learning a language is easy but it is a fair amount of time and work, "conversational in 1 months just 1 hour per day"
In general, not going to happen.
@@IanMShooter We ought to keep our expectations realistic!
Uhhhh...kinda gotta agree with him that reading from a script isn't a valid demonstration of ability.
From what you described what he does.. he sounds like a standard narcissist.
“There’s no gain to lying”
Are you that naive? 🤔
Also, he’s clearly being a dick by harassing the first guy into speaking different languages live on his stream, but the guy just had to do so, and he would have shut his mouth 🤷🏻♂️
We can say he did the mature thing by responding calmly and kindly, but he’s also enabling the other guy to pursue his harassment, while in the meantime leaving the possibility lingering that he actually really is a fake polyglot
I also disagree with your take on polyglots reading from scripts
Of course there’s nothing wrong about having notes, but still, first that has norhing to do with acting, that comparison makes no sens, and even if it would, it would be more detrimental to your point than beneficial, because polyglots are not actors, and they are not acting when they do a live stream or even a youtube video
And also, you can very easily read “fluently” a language that you are familiar with, even if you can’t actually speak it
I can’t speak Italian, but I am familiar with the language, and I can speak French and Spanish fluently, and with that, I can very easily read Italian with a decent accent and decent pronunciation, and trick people into believing I can speak fluently, even if I only understand 20% of what I am reading
So his point is valid
His methods and mindset are questionable, but his goal makes sens: There are a lot of fake polyglots out there scamming people, and he is right to confront them
The only thing your video does is giving me the feeling that you are actually trying to protect fake polyglots 🤷🏻♂️
Lindie Boats.😂😂😂
When I found out his channel, I was just rolling my eyes and shaking my head at his nonsense. I felt so frustrated, plus I couldn't reply to him. So thank you for giving me a space where I can interact with reasonable people and calm down lol. The way you addressed this touchy topic is classy, entertaining, kind, thoughtful and your voice is so soothing... 😊 Also, I almost cried when you said "don't compare yourself with others", because it's a real issue for me. I always feel less gifted compared to those hyper polyglots and I have a lack of self esteem. 😔 But you're right, social media are just a part of someone's life and I should be proud of my (slow) progress 💪 You've gained a subscriber 🙏 J'ai hâte de découvrir tes autres vidéos (je suis française ^^)
Of course there's a lot to gain from lying, you get views! On youtube, views = money.
Polyglot fake is very funny, I'm speaking Portuguese and learning English.
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).
oh my god. I needed to laugh so hard.🤣
You congratulate the guy because "It takes a lot of effort to send targetted hate on the internet" Ha ha
Omg I hate such people. So poor mindset to do that to others…
This bloke recently "exposed" my language channel with a mere 16 subscribers.
You shouldn't have been scamming those fats stacks of dough out of those 16 people 🙄 lol jk
I can't believe someone spends so much time harassing people. He couldn't get paid to do it in real life so he has to make a youtuve channel😂
Obviously i'm a scam polyglot bc i go through the process of learning languages which takes many years :0
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Thank you for this.
He "Sam" guy doesn't look really like regular European to me.
I think he has Arab ancestry or something.
Have you been watching this video at all? Sam is Egyptian and Danish.
2:20
I love this community.
This person seems a bit crazed. However, it's a bad start with you and Colelangs refuting it. What's the point in pretending you know all these languages? Oh I don't know. It's a whole business model online. Maybe not having to work at the local supermarket. The answer is obvious and the performative disbelief is silly and a little suspicious.
Yes people do make things up on the internet to get attention. And sometimes on the internet attention is money.
Your arguments are not good. Obviously people write scripts. But you know what he is getting at. If you claim to be proficient in a language you should be conversationally fluent. Thus able to speak the language without detailed prompts. It is obviously much easier to find phrases or even a speech and practice reciting it. To your acting example there are many actors who speak lines in a foreign language that they don't understand and would not be able to hold a similar conversation because they have been taught wrote recitation. Does that mean that because you have a script that you are a scammer? Of course not. It is also a skill which requires learning but it is not the same as being fluent in a language.
It's a red flag when people take the most shallow possible version of an argument and refute that.
That guy always torn off comments in his videos, probably because he doesn't want people tell him that he's always dishonest when he speaks about polyglot UA-camrs.
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Interesting fact: comments are blocked in all his videos.
The behavior of someone who likes open and civil discussions
@@ASLRick You can leave a comment now because he's upset that his channel hasn't blown up.😄
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Fake polyglot youtubers deserve to be exposed and lose money. No different than exposing a fake business guru or a snakeoil salesman. The guy may go beyond, of course 😂😂😂😂 but I know when the majority of youtube polyglots are lying, because, their lips are moving. 😂😂😂
GREAT video, and a breath of fresh air -
I've been watching videos of SO many countless fake polyglots making total asses of themselves, and you, Alex, are one of the few who has exposed them.
It takes a person who is actually university educated in a foreign language to comprehend this. That's me.
Those videos are comedy routines more than anything else, such as an Asian guy claiming to be from both Spain & Argentina because he can do a fake accent from each nation.
I also saw a British guy doing fake accents from every region of Great Britain. That'd be not too different from a Puerto Rican guy claiming to be from both Texas and New York.
Genuine polyglots are EXTREMELY few and very far between -
When you learn a foreign language, if you can communicate as fluently as the average 15 year old kid, then you've surely "arrived" in some fashion; the problem ... ? MANY people claiming to be "fluent" can barely speak a foreign language as well as a 10 year old -
Moreover, knowing a foreign includes many components and related skills, not all of which are equal to other skills. Ok, so we can speak: But can we comprehend virtually anything said to us? Or can we read the language well enough to understand a newspaper? If we need to write a simple note to somebody, are they likely to understand it? Is our pronunciation up to the point where we can be very easily understood by native speakers?
Some skilled people here and there manage to fake it with superlative pronunciation, but their vocabulary may be virtually non-existent.
I like that channel! They are a shit load of scammers! I support that guy…