"First I'm gonna talk in English and then I'll switch to their mother tongue." *First interviewee, with a perfect American accent:* "I'm from San Francisco" _Mission failed, we'll get 'em next time_
Sim ou portuguese dele poderia ser melhor, mas mesmo assim é bem bacana, meu portuguese não é ou melhor do mundo também mas nenhum pode ser perfeito em todos os idiomas
Just thought that they showed off their basic conversations, what's the point? To show off? I firstly got freaked out when seeing him speaking portuguese so fluently but conversation in this video is totally useless
@@russellcheng2378 I am also a polyglot, speak 7 languages. I also have basic command of several more, but I would never embarrass myself like he does by just repeating hard-learned sentences like him in the other ones.
@@goqsane Also his pronunciation in the languages I understood were mediocre to terrible. I want to hear him do a whole conversation in all those languages, then I'll be impressed.
Well, in my opinion it’s good to even say a few sentences than nothing at all, to learn any language, you gotta practice and practice. So to me it really doesn’t matter if he speaks fluently or that his accent is different. Just for his effort to learn other languages is already a huge accomplishment, and that is already great!
@@dariusworkoutt Why's it gotta be a competition? Lashu and wouter have both put in great work. Laoshu is better at Chinese languages, wouter might be better at Tagalog is better at romance languages.
There is a quote from nelson mandela that says "If you speak to a man in a launguage to understands you will go to his head but, when you speak in his home language you will go to his heart"
@@theopinionchannelforyou7739 Yeah, sort of ! He said "“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.” This was evidenced by the fact that he taught himself Afrikaans while imprisoned on Robben Island, and was the able to negotiate with F. W. de Klerk in his language (even though this was abhorrent to many, Afrikaans being so strongly associated with Apartheid.)
I met so many of Filipino in Indonesia and 98% of them speak English all the time in their own filipino community. I think they don't have a real national language like bahasa Indonesia. That's why a filipinos girl in this video cant speak tagalog.
“When you speak to someone through their second language, you are speaking to their brain. When you speak to them in their native language, you are speaking to their heart.”
Wtf? @ 2:26 the guy being interviewed crosses his arms and his friends do the same. @2:38 one of the friend puts his hands in his pockets, and the other friends do the same.
how do you not catch that shit lol.. im an animator so i always look at how people move.. and anyway i found out it's called "mirroring" or body mirroring. it's a non-verbal way of saying "i like you" or "i feel the same" or "we trust each other"
@@Kitulous I actually feel bad for people who their first language is english.They just lost an opportunity just because knowing english as their first language.
Eralp Akpınar SAME, dude 😂 I know English and Spanish natively. I wanna learn many more languages though! I wanna be MULTIlangual soon instead of BIlingual.
Haha brazilians are thhe best mate. Our english is usually always a shit as well as our accent but we are always happy and willing to have a good conversation
Same as any other asian who doesn't speak Chinese but managed to learn Chinese, and yet it's nothing special for them.. Unless you fake the whole "I love China"
Fun fact, china is a closed country. When a foreign go there, people pay them to stay in front of the restaurant, just to make natives go there. This is why they get so chocked when a foreign speaks their language. You basically only see asians speaking mandarin there
2:18 “Futebol? Futebol eu não gosto amigo eu sou DJ” That translates to “football? No, I don’t like football, I’m a DJ, music is my thing” *of course I love football*
There was a flaw in the translation from the brazilian dudes tho - he didn't say "yeah, I love football!", he said that football isn't really his thing since he's a DJ, so he prefers music 😂😂😂😂 I'm really amazed tho, you're very talented!! As a multilingual myself, I really appreciate the effort and hard work!! 🤙🏼
Matrixyst what joke?? I just watched it again and in my opinion, if it's not a translation flaw then it's plain profiling and generalizing a whole population into one stereotype. I prefer to think it was a flaw in the translation.
Major Fallacy I don't necessarily like thinking of generalization of stereotypes as a joke. I know that it's not that huge of a deal if someone does or does not like football, but it can be misleading. Anyways, if you find it funny and see it as a joke then good for you, it's nice to laugh. I just prefer not to see people purposely putting all brazilians in the "we're all crazy about football" box, but that's just my opinion 🤷🏻 Edit: spelling
Major Fallacy the guy also said he went to Amsterdam last year, and in the translation it was embassy ? Was that a joke or is he lost in the translation? Also his Portuguese is pretty bad, he has a short vocabulary, bad intonation ( sounds Spanish ) and he also used the verb mirar ( that’s spanish) instead of ver/assistir.
The brazilian guy says: "Foi ano passado" in english "It was last year". Subtiltle is: " I went to the embassy". Lol in portuguese that will be "Eu fui a embaixada".
This (along with other comments) answers my question. I suspected he only had basic knowledge of each language. He seems to have a knack for pronunciation, and that makes it look like he speaks fluently. This reminds me of the time I was with some friends, one of them half-Japanese. At some point I said one very simple sentence in Japanese ("kore wa nan desu ka" == "what's this?"), and he went completely bananas, eyes wide open, shouting "you speak Japanese and you've never told me!!", only because I got the accent right and I sounded convincing. BTW, I still can't understand basic directions in Japanese.
bbcmotd Exactly what I thought. It is cool that he has Basic knowledge in so many languages but at least his Chinese was Really with a terrible accent 😐 I Think he should focus a little more on quality then quantity 加油
The歐Boss This is a premise in all these videos from people saying they speak 10-20 languages, leading people to assume they are fluent. It's sophistic, you can't be fluent in 10-20 languages, fluency requires practice and deep knowledge in some areas, in general it requires at least a B2.
Muito bom seus vídeos! Geralmente não usamos “mirar” em português. Mirar é usado para o espanhol no sentido de “ver”. Quando você está “vendo futebol” você está “assistindo”, acho que este é o verbo mais correto. Parabéns pelo canal!
Watching this actually bought me so much joy because when someone understands your mother tongue you connect to their hearts! Keep up the good work Wouter 😆💕
Tips: -put the mic close to the mouth -stop moving around when you are talking -place yourself close to the people -make good questions, let them speak , dont interrupt every 15 seconds. any ways, cool vid!
So he can basically say some variant of "You are from ____? I speak ____. Can you understand it? I would love to go to _____, maybe we can have a beer there" in about 20 languages.
To be fair, his language skills varies language to language - he's clearly very confident in Tagalog and Portuguese which are featured here, but his Mandarin and Cantonese skills are limited. And I struggled to understand his Mandarin as his tones are waaaay off (Chinese languages are tonal, which is often a challenge for white people who are not used to this aspect of the language) and he needs a wider range of vocabulary - like he uses 'hao li hai' for everything which is like, oh come on, there's more than one way to express the concept of "that's great/good" or "alright" and hao li hai can mean like 'that's awesome' or even 'you're awesome' but he uses it to describe himself sometimes and I would find that inappropriate if a native speaker did that (self-praise is a no-no) but I can forgive him as a foreign speaker who is not using the most appropriate term. However, as a fellow polyglot, yeah, it's impossible to be fluent in every language you speak - you'll be fluent in some of them and get by in others, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't be afraid to use those foreign languages that you're not fluent in. However, for the purpose of UA-cam, perhaps it was a mistake to try to do stuff in Mandarin which is struggles in (and he admits that in the video) - the Tagalog and Portuguese were impressive though. Mandarin is a bloody difficult language to master as a European and he's trying his best.
How many languages can you? I think he's got better than that in quite a few and still beginning to learn others. One of the big issues with language acquisition is people feel insecure about speaking it until they get "good enough," and they can't get "good enough" without actual conversational practice. He'll get much better much faster by going out and speaking to people, even if he has to initially keep conversations very simple and makes many mistakes. English is my first language, but I speak a little German and Spanish, and I'm currently learning Cherokee. Outside of Spanish, there's literally no one I can speak with in person where I live, but I make a point to try to use German and Cherokee in online conversations regularly. I'm sure in a few years I will look back on stuff I've said now and find tons of errors, especially with the Cherokee polysynthesis, but all that will mean is I'm improving, and the year after that it will be the same.
@@gymnastalexliang I agree completely, I'm learning Mandarin at the moment (Not that far in yet) but the grammar appears to be really simple yet the tonal side of things is very tough. If you want to see another channel check out this guy, he speaks Mandarin and Cantonese very very well (Check him out here ua-cam.com/video/63hB5ZthbP0/v-deo.html) - He's one of the reasons I started learning Mandarin, I love the reactions he gets when people realise that he speaks it fluently. Super super impressive.
@@BennyDACHO That's the problem with being an polyglot. Too many languages. It would take a lifetime to master each and every language unless you're incredibly skilled at it (like incredibly incredibly, miles beyond what even the 1% are good at) - My question is; is it better to master a few languages and have better conversation with those you do talk to, or is it better to know a lot about a lot of languages and connect with a lot more people but be less proficient in speaking? (Not a rhetorical question at all, I think either answer is good)
@@BennyDACHO The definition of a polyglot is "knowing or using several languages" - It doesn't imply that they are proficient in their use. I personally would rather know a few fluently than a load with imperfection, but it's subjective, everyone has a different preference.
It's a quite simple language to learn. You might say the tones are difficult to master for speakers of non-tonal languages. And he of course totally failed at mastering them.
When you speak, YOU use the mic. When They speak, They should get the mic. You forget to put the mic on their side when they.are talking. Also, as an interviewer, give them a chance to speak, dont interrupt. My 2 cents, snap je ah matti?!
This is my first time on this channel, I am from Hong Kong, didn’t expect someone from Europe can speak so many languages even Cantonese, one of the most difficult language in the world(imo) I was amazed by your talent.
I mean, he has an impressive amount of languages under his belt, but as a Chinese speaker, I have difficulty understanding his Chinese as he is butchering it and repeating dumb phrases like "I love you" "let's go drink beer." Albeit, Chinese is pretty difficult.
That's the thing when you're trying to learn Chinese and actually communicating to Chinese people, they tend to always praise you and, I have nothing against praising someone or motivating them to keep learning, but with that also comes the lack to improve one's self, hence being cocky about it
@@rob_patrick1 The secret is if they praise you they are trying to end the conversation and get away. If they talk with you, then your mandarin is good enough to be understood.
Ryan Martin very true! I’d rather talk with him in english about more real issues, instead of listening to his shattered Chinese full of simple greetings. That’s why we always praise foreigners trying to chat with us on subway or tourist spots in shattered Chinese. we compliment, we say goodbye quickly and feel relieved.
His tagalog is sloppy too but it wasn't hard to understand, he just kinda butchers the pronunciation although it is understandable because of his accent
His portuguese wasn't so good, and also the subtitles are wrong. He actually didn't understand some things the Brazilian guys said, and the subtitles kinda create a little dialogue between them that didn't really exist lol
This guy litterally put a smile on my face through the whole video the way he speaks others people languages so well and have good conversations with them makes me happy 😁
He speaks very well, but he made some mistakes with the subtitles. Like the brazilians said that they actually dont like football as they are DJ's but the guy ignored it to go on with the conversation. Don't want to hate just pointing it out. Overall great video.
Dude, I speak Portuguese and I can tell you guys for sure the subtitles for Portuguese are missing a lot of stuff... Where did all that conversation end up in? I mean... a BIG part of it just didn't show up on the subtitles (there were even some mistranslations). I ask myself whether this happened to the other languages shown too XD
I only know English, Cantonese and Mandarin. I learnt Spanish for a semester but I almost forgot all of them. Check out my Cantonese rap if any of you are interested;P ua-cam.com/video/yFz4wsodM9g/v-deo.html
Aqui no Brasil não utilizamos a palavra "mirar" no mesmo sentido que o espanhol, acredito que tu querias falar "assistir, ver, olhar". Entretanto, o vídeo é excelente!
Btw watch football in portuguese it's not "miramos" but "vemos" Im portuguese so i know the difference xd Also....they're brasilian....they use different words that can mean the same in portuguese......just saying!! xD
I respect that you are upfront with the strangers you encounter about filming them for content. Theres other channels on this platform that use cameras hidden in their hat to deceive strangers for financial gain.
Great content, I love these type of videos. The reactions are so fun to watch, and you almost build a friendship the second you begin to speak their language. Saludos desde Ecuador
This is so heartwarming!! :) I wish there were many people like you, a bridge between different cultures so that there might be less ethical conflicts around the world... (Of course it’s not that simple yet you can’t hate people if your friend’s from that country and you know their language.) I’m a trilingual speaker of Japanese (1L), English (2L), and Korean (L3) and it’s kind of rare to be even bilingual here in Japan so I didn’t use them or tried to improve them at all over 6 years because I was “good” in those two languages in a Japanese standard. (Which is probably required higher these days different from my generation.) Those two things were what I’d been spending most of my life putting so much effort (because I enjoyed it) but I ruined it by being arrogant and lazy. For years I believed that the fact that my English deteriorated from one point was all my environment’s fault (to be stuck in non-English speaking country).........but your video made me realize I can work harder again life like my old self if I truly desire to be connected with people like that!! That joy I had forgotten for too long...thanks, I’ll give it a try all over again!! (I’m not old but youth was gone lol inner self never gets old, refreshed every morning!!)
This man is soooo amazing! I want to be just like him when I grow up! And if you're reading this Wouter, I want you to know that you are an inspiration! Love from Washington State, US
@@cityuser Not the same. Hong Kong is a special administrative region in China. People from Hong Kong need a visa to go to mainland China, and vice versa.
His accent: English: fluent but a lil bit accent, sometimes pronounced the p as a b Portuguese: Fluent! maybe there's kinda accent but my accent is even stronger... Tagalog: sorry I know little...but sounds fluent Mandarin: no tones at all 😂 and "haǒ lìhài" is not the only word for awesome bro 😂 Cantonese: I'm sure he's pronouncing some words as in mandarin, like "Wah"(language)-"Huà"
“Oh god I hope this guy doesn’t talk to me, oh no, let me pretend I don’t speak English”
_guy starts speaking your native language_
it's staged
Hastein710 no it’s not
FUCK!!!!
He fell into my trap * evil laughs *
Fuck
"First I'm gonna talk in English and then I'll switch to their mother tongue."
*First interviewee, with a perfect American accent:* "I'm from San Francisco"
_Mission failed, we'll get 'em next time_
Yeah she is American born Filipino, I guess he took his chance and assume she’s Filipino lol. At least he got that right.
That’s exactly what I thought! Some people get offended by this lol at least she was cool about it.
Lol
And she thinks she'll speak Tagalog but she doesn't even speak it. hahahaha he should have edited and left it for last
yessirge she's Indonesian 😑
This guy eats the Duolingo bird for breakfast
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
toshi steven best comment so far 😂😂😂
Stolen from another guys comment section
Life is to live, death is the end ikr
You thieves
The Brazilian guy said "I don't like football that much. I'm a DJ, I prefer music" and the subtitle is "of course I love football".
Lol
Yes, I wondered why he said "music" when the translation didn't say anything about music. I think he did say he was a DJ.
@@renato5384 It is mixed with Spanish, I guess. Instead of "olhar" or "Assistir" he uses the verb "mirar" as watch... That's Spanish
I guess you found the prank bit which went over my head completly - I was like: Wtf was the prank in this?
KKKKK SIM
Sim ou portuguese dele poderia ser melhor, mas mesmo assim é bem bacana, meu portuguese não é ou melhor do mundo também mas nenhum pode ser perfeito em todos os idiomas
That multilingual phone conversation was dope
freaked out a little when I saw it and then scrolled down to see your comment haha
ikr, what are the chances for that?
that dude on the phone was high or some shit
DUNCOUP MAN.. I WOULDNT WANT U AT MY PARTY, WHAT A POOPER
Just thought that they showed off their basic conversations, what's the point? To show off?
I firstly got freaked out when seeing him speaking portuguese so fluently but conversation in this video is totally useless
All Philippines girls like to hold the mic because karaoke is in their blood. 3:31
mohamed fahud LMAO
LOL!
HAHAHA
yeah everytime they get interviewed the firs thing they would do is to hold the fking mic for themselves haha
Oh shit!!!!!!!! 😂😂😂😂😂 I was just at a karaoke last night too and there were Asians singing!!!!! Holy fuck lmfao
18 languages!!!! That’s fantastic man!!!!!
You mean 3-4 languages and the rest the same sentences over and over again in many others? Nope.
@@goqsane as a polyglot myself, his skill level is pretty high. Trust me, his sentence construction is at a very functional level.
@@russellcheng2378 I am also a polyglot, speak 7 languages. I also have basic command of several more, but I would never embarrass myself like he does by just repeating hard-learned sentences like him in the other ones.
@@goqsane Also his pronunciation in the languages I understood were mediocre to terrible. I want to hear him do a whole conversation in all those languages, then I'll be impressed.
Well, in my opinion it’s good to even say a few sentences than nothing at all, to learn any language, you gotta practice and practice.
So to me it really doesn’t matter if he speaks fluently or that his accent is different.
Just for his effort to learn other languages is already a huge accomplishment, and that is already great!
Yeah. Please make more content like this
yess
Of course. I'll do that :)
Love these content. Common languages bridge people!
Wouter Corduwener terima kasih ;)
The guy is kinda show off
This dude should call his channel "The Language Dude". Much easier to remember
skskskssk you made me die
theres another youtuber who can speak more languages and more fluently
Fuck u cyclist prick
Laoshu50500 > Wouter
@@dariusworkoutt Why's it gotta be a competition? Lashu and wouter have both put in great work. Laoshu is better at Chinese languages, wouter might be better at Tagalog is better at romance languages.
When you switched to their language, the ice instantly melted and you become "brother".
Yes, what a cool way to make friends 😆😆😆
Yass😃
There is a quote from nelson mandela that says
"If you speak to a man in a launguage to understands you will go to his head but, when you speak in his home language you will go to his heart"
taskforce juanforjuan
Lovely 💕
@@theopinionchannelforyou7739 Yeah, sort of ! He said "“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.”
This was evidenced by the fact that he taught himself Afrikaans while imprisoned on Robben Island, and was the able to negotiate with
F. W. de Klerk in his language (even though this was abhorrent to many, Afrikaans being so strongly associated with Apartheid.)
I love it that the Brazilian guy actually said “I don’t really like football, I’m a DJ” and the subtitles are like “of course I love football” lol
o cara n fala portugues mto bem KKKKKKKKKKKKKK
geralmente quem fala mais de 10 línguas só tem fluência em 2 ou 3
Ainda tem no 2:47 "I want to the embassy", só que ninguém falou isso. Ele disse "foi no ano passado" (It was last year)
First lady: American accent
Me: DOn't Do it bro she was born there dont do it
Nope.
Haha first one was hard "I'm from San Francisco"))))
Иван Иванов San Francisco Pampanga 😂😂😂 Joke 😆
ruth_loveSNSD 9IRLS'6ENERAT10N hala baka sa nueva ecija , ibang bansa na yan ah 😂
Mxon Tea hahahaha...
she's maybe american with a filipino decent.
@@SoMooLand1nine7 omggg San Pernandu hahahaha
1:23 Handshake 10/10
XD
😂
breathless laugh
my heart AHHHHHHHH
Just about to comment something about that 😂
"I can understand you but I cant respond"
"are you half filipina?"
"ive seen like 1 or 2 people from the Philippines"
lmao
Wrong video
She doesnt understand what the man said because she cant speak tagalog and she only understand it a little bit. So stop being an idiot
He’s kind of profiling her
She's from Indonesia not Philippines.
I met so many of Filipino in Indonesia and 98% of them speak English all the time in their own filipino community.
I think they don't have a real national language like bahasa Indonesia. That's why a filipinos girl in this video cant speak tagalog.
You need to change your channel name. That girl was not going to remember your UA-cam name at all.
Lmao he needs cards 😂
Just change the name to Wouter or something
That's true. Something easier to remember
Yeah, and she DEFINITELY wanted the D!!!!
@@johnnhoj15 She was married, dude.
“When you speak to someone through their second language, you are speaking to their brain. When you speak to them in their native language, you are speaking to their heart.”
Does this guy work for CIA?
Roy Sescon 🤫🤫🤫
House in da house
@@Ed19601
So,... what's in the canister?
@@updatedotexe that's on a 'need to know' basis and you don't need to know ;-)
I used to work to CIA.
The fun thing about this is that no one will believe it.
Those Philippine girls were feeling awkward when they heard their language. lol
not really awkward they just dont know how to react but they were surprised and happy about it. but yeah awkward too
No the guys just have a super funny accent
Whenever I speak Tagalog or Bisaya, Filipinos do understand me well but apparently my accent is so funny they always laugh at me
Eric John the same with me ... When he took in portuguese... So weird, definitely he doesn’t speak portuguese
Surprisingly how we react when we hear our own language come out of other people's mouths lol
Wtf? @ 2:26 the guy being interviewed crosses his arms and his friends do the same. @2:38 one of the friend puts his hands in his pockets, and the other friends do the same.
Study NLP. The subconscious mind is a power thing :)
Probably stoned too :)
How do you catch this shit?
DubCmusicTV seriously
how do you not catch that shit lol.. im an animator so i always look at how people move.. and anyway i found out it's called "mirroring" or body mirroring. it's a non-verbal way of saying "i like you" or "i feel the same" or "we trust each other"
And im sitting here knowing only 2 languages
at least you know two. the vast majority of the English-as-the-first-language speakers know only it.
@@Kitulous I actually feel bad for people who their first language is english.They just lost an opportunity just because knowing english as their first language.
Lol me too.
@@cukless6849 60% of all people speak more than one language. Some countries have more than one "mother tongue".
Eralp Akpınar SAME, dude 😂 I know English and Spanish natively. I wanna learn many more languages though! I wanna be MULTIlangual soon instead of BIlingual.
It's always so overwhelming, to see people reactions, when you switch to their language. Just priceless.
Cheers, I'll make more content like this.
this girl want to eat the indonesians..... what did we do
HAHAHAHHAHA
Wtf
give her some Indonesian. we're too much
Lmao
Hanif Z lmaoo
6:50 they never found the channel
iDEaXANA they won 6 wc
They lost him at W
i'll do a monolingual interview prank , wonder how it will go
@@yenshamay291 :(
@@yenshamay291 goddamn, what a burn
Dodgy Skull Guy you go to the location. Not on.
Ignorance is bliss @Johnny
@@bangaddy sure buddy
Haha brazilians are thhe best mate. Our english is usually always a shit as well as our accent but we are always happy and willing to have a good conversation
Yeah i like brazilians mann and brazil too its like Romania for me, rich culture, but little bit poor.. latin
brazillian accents are awesome though
❤️❤️
BR accent is better than that Portugal shit
@@Sir_Mairon You'd be speaking spanish if it weren't for us
Love how the people suddenly open up when he speaks to them in their mother tongue.
Yes, in the foreign land that's the thing always happen coz you are attached to your mother land.
Funny, when a European speaks Mandarin the Chinese lose their minds, when it's the other way around we don't even blink.
Same as any other asian who doesn't speak Chinese but managed to learn Chinese, and yet it's nothing special for them.. Unless you fake the whole "I love China"
Well, maybe bacause English is a global language? 😒
It has to do with familiar language families. Chinese is so different than a European language.
Fun fact, china is a closed country. When a foreign go there, people pay them to stay in front of the restaurant, just to make natives go there. This is why they get so chocked when a foreign speaks their language. You basically only see asians speaking mandarin there
Yes funny and sad
2:17 "Of course I love football" he actually said he was DJ and didn't like football lol
"We're from Brazil"
Me: *7-1*
Dude ur a god 🤣🤣🤣🤣
😅😂
Fuck that hurts hahaha
Ah feladamae
:(
2:18 “Futebol? Futebol eu não gosto amigo eu sou DJ”
That translates to “football? No, I don’t like football, I’m a DJ, music is my thing”
*of course I love football*
HAHAHAHHAHA mt bom
Kkkkkkkk fodas eu também gosto de futebol abssushushs
Usually pranks are just not funny and offending or plain stupid.
I love this because you make people happy :)
Thanks bro...
There was a flaw in the translation from the brazilian dudes tho - he didn't say "yeah, I love football!", he said that football isn't really his thing since he's a DJ, so he prefers music 😂😂😂😂
I'm really amazed tho, you're very talented!! As a multilingual myself, I really appreciate the effort and hard work!! 🤙🏼
Matrixyst what joke?? I just watched it again and in my opinion, if it's not a translation flaw then it's plain profiling and generalizing a whole population into one stereotype.
I prefer to think it was a flaw in the translation.
@@jubiloks_ and that is, in fact, the joke.
Major Fallacy I don't necessarily like thinking of generalization of stereotypes as a joke. I know that it's not that huge of a deal if someone does or does not like football, but it can be misleading.
Anyways, if you find it funny and see it as a joke then good for you, it's nice to laugh. I just prefer not to see people purposely putting all brazilians in the "we're all crazy about football" box, but that's just my opinion 🤷🏻
Edit: spelling
Major Fallacy the guy also said he went to Amsterdam last year, and in the translation it was embassy ? Was that a joke or is he lost in the translation? Also his Portuguese is pretty bad, he has a short vocabulary, bad intonation ( sounds Spanish ) and he also used the verb mirar ( that’s spanish) instead of ver/assistir.
Dude you seem so genuinely happy to be alive and to share these experiences with people. Brings a smile to my face. Much respect!
I like your comment, too!
hahah his portuguese is cute. he has a strong accent but it's very good
rafaella ele provavelmente aprendeu o portugues de portugal
Jowzeera H pode ser
Brazilian dude: "I don't really like soccer, I'm a DJ"
Subtitle: "I love soccer!" 😂😂
Great video nevertheless 🙂
The brazilian guy says: "Foi ano passado" in english "It was last year".
Subtiltle is: " I went to the embassy". Lol in portuguese that will be "Eu fui a embaixada".
With all due respect his Chinese is pretty poor.
Like 去过 and 中国 sound the same coming from him.
But hey 18 languages, cool overall
This (along with other comments) answers my question. I suspected he only had basic knowledge of each language. He seems to have a knack for pronunciation, and that makes it look like he speaks fluently.
This reminds me of the time I was with some friends, one of them half-Japanese. At some point I said one very simple sentence in Japanese ("kore wa nan desu ka" == "what's this?"), and he went completely bananas, eyes wide open, shouting "you speak Japanese and you've never told me!!", only because I got the accent right and I sounded convincing. BTW, I still can't understand basic directions in Japanese.
@@requemao He takes the Walmart approach to language learning, lots of languages but he didn't spend much money on each.
bbcmotd Exactly what I thought.
It is cool that he has Basic knowledge in so many languages but at least his Chinese was Really with a terrible accent 😐
I Think he should focus a little more on quality then quantity 加油
The歐Boss This is a premise in all these videos from people saying they speak 10-20 languages, leading people to assume they are fluent. It's sophistic, you can't be fluent in 10-20 languages, fluency requires practice and deep knowledge in some areas, in general it requires at least a B2.
哥们，中国话哪里有那么容易，人家说那么多语音，还是挺厉害
Muito bom seus vídeos! Geralmente não usamos “mirar” em português. Mirar é usado para o espanhol no sentido de “ver”. Quando você está “vendo futebol” você está “assistindo”, acho que este é o verbo mais correto.
Parabéns pelo canal!
Me: I speak 5 languages and people think that is a lot
Wouter: Hold mi bière
Femke Rixt de Jong 😂😂😂
Tienimi la birra!
I can speak 6
Hold mi bière 😂😂😂😂 Seriously though, speaking five languages is still A LOT. Good for you!
Same 😂
That conversation with the guy on the phone was awesome! Their reactions are priceless😊
Hahaha, it was so awesome to talk to him.
Watching this actually bought me so much joy because when someone understands your mother tongue you connect to their hearts! Keep up the good work Wouter 😆💕
Tips:
-put the mic close to the mouth
-stop moving around when you are talking
-place yourself close to the people
-make good questions, let them speak , dont interrupt every 15 seconds.
any ways, cool vid!
You should have a business card, its pretty awkward spelling your name like that. Great video, very fun to see their reactions!
For the video this is better I think :)
*it's (not possessive)
How to speak Mandarin
Teacher: Repeat after me "O Li Hai"
This dude: Sick got it. Catch ya later.
So he can basically say some variant of "You are from ____? I speak ____. Can you understand it? I would love to go to _____, maybe we can have a beer there" in about 20 languages.
To be fair, his language skills varies language to language - he's clearly very confident in Tagalog and Portuguese which are featured here, but his Mandarin and Cantonese skills are limited. And I struggled to understand his Mandarin as his tones are waaaay off (Chinese languages are tonal, which is often a challenge for white people who are not used to this aspect of the language) and he needs a wider range of vocabulary - like he uses 'hao li hai' for everything which is like, oh come on, there's more than one way to express the concept of "that's great/good" or "alright" and hao li hai can mean like 'that's awesome' or even 'you're awesome' but he uses it to describe himself sometimes and I would find that inappropriate if a native speaker did that (self-praise is a no-no) but I can forgive him as a foreign speaker who is not using the most appropriate term. However, as a fellow polyglot, yeah, it's impossible to be fluent in every language you speak - you'll be fluent in some of them and get by in others, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't be afraid to use those foreign languages that you're not fluent in. However, for the purpose of UA-cam, perhaps it was a mistake to try to do stuff in Mandarin which is struggles in (and he admits that in the video) - the Tagalog and Portuguese were impressive though. Mandarin is a bloody difficult language to master as a European and he's trying his best.
How many languages can you? I think he's got better than that in quite a few and still beginning to learn others. One of the big issues with language acquisition is people feel insecure about speaking it until they get "good enough," and they can't get "good enough" without actual conversational practice. He'll get much better much faster by going out and speaking to people, even if he has to initially keep conversations very simple and makes many mistakes.
English is my first language, but I speak a little German and Spanish, and I'm currently learning Cherokee. Outside of Spanish, there's literally no one I can speak with in person where I live, but I make a point to try to use German and Cherokee in online conversations regularly. I'm sure in a few years I will look back on stuff I've said now and find tons of errors, especially with the Cherokee polysynthesis, but all that will mean is I'm improving, and the year after that it will be the same.
@@gymnastalexliang I agree completely, I'm learning Mandarin at the moment (Not that far in yet) but the grammar appears to be really simple yet the tonal side of things is very tough. If you want to see another channel check out this guy, he speaks Mandarin and Cantonese very very well (Check him out here ua-cam.com/video/63hB5ZthbP0/v-deo.html) - He's one of the reasons I started learning Mandarin, I love the reactions he gets when people realise that he speaks it fluently. Super super impressive.
@@BennyDACHO That's the problem with being an polyglot. Too many languages. It would take a lifetime to master each and every language unless you're incredibly skilled at it (like incredibly incredibly, miles beyond what even the 1% are good at) - My question is; is it better to master a few languages and have better conversation with those you do talk to, or is it better to know a lot about a lot of languages and connect with a lot more people but be less proficient in speaking? (Not a rhetorical question at all, I think either answer is good)
@@BennyDACHO The definition of a polyglot is "knowing or using several languages" - It doesn't imply that they are proficient in their use. I personally would rather know a few fluently than a load with imperfection, but it's subjective, everyone has a different preference.
Cantonese is a very hard language to master. Even though he had an interesting accent I was really blown back by his abilities to communicate
yo u should check laoshu50500 channel. this dude has crazy skills in many languages and speak fluent mandarin and cantonese
Huy Thanh Lmao not really the dude knows how to introduce himself and say “I’m self taught” in 20 different languages
It's a quite simple language to learn. You might say the tones are difficult to master for speakers of non-tonal languages. And he of course totally failed at mastering them.
"speaks Chinese because hes Asian"
"Speaks Japaneses instead"
"Oh SH we failed"
Ahh??. Japan is also is in asia right.
i'm not surprised the first girl couldnt respond. it is very rare for filipino americans to speak tagalog
but we all can speak english!
Frank Joseph did you just assume that I know English ?
@@84y87 you have to if you want to be an american citizen xD
exactly... I have met hundreds of Filipinos in Indonesia. they never speak tagalog.. just English and English
I just realized how hard it is to learn a more natural tagalog accent, I didn't realize english and tagalog we're so different lol
He's Dutch doe
How to achieve tagalog accent speak slowly and stay calm
He's just not talented. Only motivated lol.
2:19 the translation is wrong
he said "i don't like football, my thing is Dj" instead "ofc i do love football"
"Of course i do love footbal :) " Such stereotypical thing to ad knowing he doesn't like it, i do understand portuguese btw.
@@EXMachina. ty bro
Fake
It's was done as a joke
In the netherlands you have no right to not like football
Wouter, this was awesome! PLEASE do more videos like this one!
yesss
It's my plan to make more foreign languages prank videos and social experiments.
do exactly this, very entertaining!
When you speak, YOU use the mic. When They speak, They should get the mic. You forget to put the mic on their side when they.are talking.
Also, as an interviewer, give them a chance to speak, dont interrupt.
My 2 cents, snap je ah matti?!
The purpose of the video is to expose himself.. How good he is in different languages.. Lol
Yeah
@@barbaraaraojo504 you don't say -_-... it should be at least 50/50. More natural
@Dasyu Taosipapasi don't tell ME how to live my life matti!!!
@Dasyu Taosipapasi btw. I did not know it was malay...I learned it from surinami (sranang) friends...
This is my first time on this channel, I am from Hong Kong, didn’t expect someone from Europe can speak so many languages even Cantonese, one of the most difficult language in the world(imo) I was amazed by your talent.
I mean, he has an impressive amount of languages under his belt, but as a Chinese speaker, I have difficulty understanding his Chinese as he is butchering it and repeating dumb phrases like "I love you" "let's go drink beer." Albeit, Chinese is pretty difficult.
That's the thing when you're trying to learn Chinese and actually communicating to Chinese people, they tend to always praise you and, I have nothing against praising someone or motivating them to keep learning, but with that also comes the lack to improve one's self, hence being cocky about it
@@rob_patrick1 The secret is if they praise you they are trying to end the conversation and get away. If they talk with you, then your mandarin is good enough to be understood.
Ryan Martin very true! I’d rather talk with him in english about more real issues, instead of listening to his shattered Chinese full of simple greetings. That’s why we always praise foreigners trying to chat with us on subway or tourist spots in shattered Chinese. we compliment, we say goodbye quickly and feel relieved.
Yesssss! Omg I heard that too, ahah!
His tagalog is sloppy too but it wasn't hard to understand, he just kinda butchers the pronunciation although it is understandable because of his accent
Wouter: Are you half Filipino?
Girl: I did se a few Filipinos here but not alot
Wouter: Yeah :)
In what world does that make any sense?
Yeah he was being nice so she wouldnt get flustered probably lol
She is Indonesian, the country near Phillippines.
I'm Indonesian
She obviously wasn't fluent and misunderstood his question
He is being nice and didn’t correct her.
Gosh
Shut up akali main
interviewer: what do you want to eat?
girl: the indonesian
*you guys better run*
sunflowertea hahaha
You killed me when you spoke in Hebrew! Awesome man and a-lot of respect from Israel :)
This mans accent when he speaks english sounds like the weird Italian accent idubbz does
Mans got a heavy heavy heavy dutch accent.
It's awesome how once you speak their language it's almost like you are immediately friends.
His portuguese wasn't so good, and also the subtitles are wrong. He actually didn't understand some things the Brazilian guys said, and the subtitles kinda create a little dialogue between them that didn't really exist lol
Same with his tagalog...
Shut the f**k up. His multilingual skills are overall amazing. How many languages can you have conversations in b**ch???
@@johnnhoj15 Are people not allowed to be critical and point out mistakes? If you keep telling him he's amazing how is he gonna improve? smh..
Lmaoooo
@@PCMonkey202 I have dignity on the internet. F**k you and your yoga pants b**ch!
Good video!
In Portuguese we don’t say “mirar” for look/watch, we say “ver”. And I didn’t understand the “embassy” part.
This guy litterally put a smile on my face through the whole video the way he speaks others people languages so well and have good conversations with them makes me happy 😁
Wouts man, you need to calm down with the light saber technique on the mic.
18!?!? I can speak 4 and I was very proud of that but this guy is making me look like nothing LMAO
call of duty ghosts
You can earn hella money know multiple language and 4 is already good
I consider speaking when you are fluent xd he probably knows just some basic knowledge of most but overall it's really impressive
Dude stop lying.
@@Jajuan44 I know English, Panjabi, Urdu, and Arbic. I'm not lying
nah that man barely understood what ppl were saying..
Mandarin lesson of the day: "hao li hai" xD
Bryan Chi Music cheers brother!
Bryan Chi Music “holy hi”
He speaks very well, but he made some mistakes with the subtitles. Like the brazilians said that they actually dont like football as they are DJ's but the guy ignored it to go on with the conversation. Don't want to hate just pointing it out.
Overall great video.
Reactions like those are priceless. You need to make more videos like this!!!! Very Entertaining!!!
Cheers, I'll do that
it's truly a joy seeing their faces light up every time the interview starts speaking in their native language xD
Dude, I speak Portuguese and I can tell you guys for sure the subtitles for Portuguese are missing a lot of stuff... Where did all that conversation end up in? I mean... a BIG part of it just didn't show up on the subtitles (there were even some mistranslations). I ask myself whether this happened to the other languages shown too XD
it happened for sure
what language do you speak? I'm just curious to know about it, if you don't mind XD
I'm spanish and I could tell too xd
Yes, and he uses the word "mirar", it is Spanish, in Brazil we say "ver".
@@thiagonascimentodasilva3888 really? That's interesting, we use both in spanish but mean different things
The 1st one:
Him: Are you half Filipino?
Her: i saw few Filipinos around
Me: that's not the question 😑😑
She definitely wasn't fluent, so she was probably getting only a few words in each sentence and guessing the remainder.
"What do you want to eat?"
"The Indonesians"
@@maheer5466 hmmm....
Membingungkan.
@Cytheria Gomez we taste like trash and bad politics not gonna lie yo
Olololollool
Damn suddenly the three I know feels very insignificant. This is great!
4:40 This guy on the phone is amazing as well. Cantonese (my mother tongue), Mandarin, Portuguese, and probably Tagalog too !
Well, not Tagalog in particular as his wife pointed out. But however he's learning Hebrew :)
And English
I only know English, Polish, Portuguese and some Italian =/
@@david_contente Isso já é muito, parabéns!
I only know English, Cantonese and Mandarin. I learnt Spanish for a semester but I almost forgot all of them. Check out my Cantonese rap if any of you are interested;P ua-cam.com/video/yFz4wsodM9g/v-deo.html
Aqui no Brasil não utilizamos a palavra "mirar" no mesmo sentido que o espanhol, acredito que tu querias falar "assistir, ver, olhar". Entretanto, o vídeo é excelente!
me doeu a canela quando ele disse "miramos"
É bastante comum eles fazerem isso, já que o espanhol é bem próximo.
Chinese guy: breathes
Wouter: 好厉害!!! (“wow you’re/that’s so great/awesome” in Chinese)
They all can speak two languages
It’s amazing 🙌
Es interesante saber más de un idioma 😛🍺 🤝 gran video hermano 👊🏽
yo sé 3 idiomas :P bueno; 2 pero estoy aprendiendo espanol :P
Btw watch football in portuguese it's not "miramos" but "vemos"
Im portuguese so i know the difference xd
Also....they're brasilian....they use different words that can mean the same in portuguese......just saying!! xD
Cara eu ri muito quando ele falou miramos jkkkkkkk
Yes I'm Portuguese too and it's true
I respect that you are upfront with the strangers you encounter about filming them for content. Theres other channels on this platform that use cameras hidden in their hat to deceive strangers for financial gain.
Great content, I love these type of videos. The reactions are so fun to watch, and you almost build a friendship the second you begin to speak their language. Saludos desde Ecuador
Cheers, thanks for the motivation
not sure if this guy is good or just a youtube polyglot, getting to a conversational level in a language is quick.
sadly, he butchers every language and repeats the same broken sentences.
He’s pretty bad
Damn this guy has a lot of language in his mind
3:36 "It's futuristic" lmao
She actually said it's picturistic which is also incorrect 😂
@@jay-arahon6870 Iheard picturistic tooo hahahajahhadshsa
drop dead lmao
Lol. Picturesque.
Pobre mag pilipinas, thats why hahaha
"You have great infrastructure" Thats a nice compliment
That video chat with the guy was so amazing! That's the amazing stuff that can happen when you randomly go up to people.
DAMN!!! you are so very smart and awesome!!!! Knowing 18 languages thats so amazing!!!
Haha I loved that, please make more stuff like this.
Would like to hear more of your Hebrew 😁
yesss
This is so heartwarming!! :) I wish there were many people like you, a bridge between different cultures so that there might be less ethical conflicts around the world... (Of course it’s not that simple yet you can’t hate people if your friend’s from that country and you know their language.) I’m a trilingual speaker of Japanese (1L), English (2L), and Korean (L3) and it’s kind of rare to be even bilingual here in Japan so I didn’t use them or tried to improve them at all over 6 years because I was “good” in those two languages in a Japanese standard. (Which is probably required higher these days different from my generation.) Those two things were what I’d been spending most of my life putting so much effort (because I enjoyed it) but I ruined it by being arrogant and lazy. For years I believed that the fact that my English deteriorated from one point was all my environment’s fault (to be stuck in non-English speaking country).........but your video made me realize I can work harder again life like my old self if I truly desire to be connected with people like that!! That joy I had forgotten for too long...thanks, I’ll give it a try all over again!! (I’m not old but youth was gone lol inner self never gets old, refreshed every morning!!)
This deserves way more views
I loved the reactions. Thank you for sharing.
Wow man, I'm from Brazil, you are amazing.
I was unaware of how many languages he spoke so every time there was a new one it was like BAM BAM BAM out of nowhere😂😂😂 I was like wow
18 languages!? Holy shit. Very cool. 👍
This man is soooo amazing! I want to be just like him when I grow up! And if you're reading this Wouter, I want you to know that you are an inspiration! Love from Washington State, US
Asks a guy from China whether he's been to China. :/
He asked them if they had been to Korea, not China..
@@juaniverdun1415 5:49, watch it again
He's from Hong Kong...And I think he meant mainland china
Wasn't he from Hong Kong?
@@cityuser Not the same. Hong Kong is a special administrative region in China. People from Hong Kong need a visa to go to mainland China, and vice versa.
His accent:
English: fluent but a lil bit accent, sometimes pronounced the p as a b
Portuguese: Fluent! maybe there's kinda accent but my accent is even stronger...
Tagalog: sorry I know little...but sounds fluent
Mandarin: no tones at all 😂 and "haǒ lìhài" is not the only word for awesome bro 😂
Cantonese: I'm sure he's pronouncing some words as in mandarin, like "Wah"(language)-"Huà"
Man i'm enjoying these videos so much. Cant stop smiling when I see all the surprised faces from the people you speak to in their mother tongue :D
This is great! Make more of this!
Sure, friday I'll work on some new videos. Cheers :) Not sure when I will post it. You have to wait haha, sorry.
I speak 16 languages, should I make a video ? hahaha
たこ焼き yep !! 😂
Oh my god 😂
What the fuck... how? Tell me the tips in learning languages? Pleaaaase
@@railroad_riley5084 try the ajatt method. look at a youtube channel called MattVSJapan, and a website table of contents called ajatt
yes
I love this video so much. It's so sweet when people let their guard down, smile and laugh when you speak their mother tongue!
He's Hebrews not bad...but he always says the same stuff...suspicious
@@Thepurplepotatocat wallaheonlakoran
@@habibbialikafe339 madhataqsim?
מה שהוא מדבר בעברית לא ככ רע. כל הכבוד!
@Don't Worry grammer is for virgins....
@@Thepurplepotatocat *Grammar