Is This Polyglot Really Fluent in 6 Languages?
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- Опубліковано 14 лип 2021
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So, his Spanish was good enough. Needs a little polishing, but good. He won't have trouble in spanish speaking countries. His Portuguese is what we call Portuñol. It needs some serious work, however, he will be understood, even though he may have issues understanding most uncommon conversations. Same will be true for Spanish. It's fair to say that he's actively learning German, however, the term fluent is a far cry. He did mention this himself, however.
Majority of claimed polyglots do not speak at a B2+ level, which is basic fluency.
Fluency is subjective. Talk to 10 people you'll get 10 different definitions. IMO a B1 level qualifies one to claim they speak a language
@@andreasguerrero3865 You meet lots of people claiming to speak a language yet not even able to keep up with a toddler in their native language. Fluency I believe is a big word to throw around hastily.
@@bahadireneser2924 fair enough. I have encountered that sort
A lot of the youtube polyglots don't even speak A1 to be fair.
As a native Spanish speaker, I think that his Spanish is pretty good, especially the pronunciation and the speech melody, but we only heard a few simple sentences. It's not enough to accurately assess his level of fluency. He would also have to write a text and show his grammatical knowledge. I would say he is probably a B1 level, but his pronunciation is almost perfect.
His German is at best an A1 level, in my opinion (I also speak C2 level German).
His English is good, but I wouldn't say he speaks like a native speaker.
I insist: When are we going to see these so called "polyglots" speaking the languages they claim to speak fluently with native speakers in extensive conversations to be exposed so that people would realize how little they speak, if anything at all. There are a lot of "polyglots" out there who are not what they claim to be. Sad but true. Even sadder is the fact that people praise these individuals as if they were better than the rest. Pathetic. 😂 Each day, more and more people have started to doubt the self proclaimed polyglots. It is well known now that you can search a few phrases on the internet, listen to a few Pimsleur audios, and read a script, and voila!! You're now a polyglot fluent in different languages. Come on people. 😂😂
ask him what the word is for "spark plug", or tell him you have steeped in dog shit and need help ... These are ACTUAL things that i NEEDED when i was in France for 3 months. It is such a vast claim to say you speak fluently that it is impossible to make the claim
he doesn't quite speak fluent Portuguese, very badly, maybe A2-B1. By the way, his german is also bad. I speak fluent German, English, Portuguese (really fluent).
Very badly on it's own is wrong, you would have to say he speaks it very badly or it's very bad
@@aligindahouse7777 that's precisely what I said.
Portuguese native, I confirm. His french and italian were far better
Edit: also to add, the portuguese teacher sounded weird as hell too. It sounded like a weird brazilian porutugese, not from a native
@@Zerstorter Hmm not quite what you said but ok
He did OK....let's be fair .! German was ropey . 7 / 10 !
The German and Portuguese were terrible, more A1 than anything... Spanish was passable but not great, either. B1 with an accent that doesn’t know if it’s going Spanish or Latin American yet.
thanks for your expertise.
His Spanish made me twitch
His English was ok
Yeah, pass for an American?? :D I'm an American and yeah, nope. Just nope. You could just feel his lack of confidence in English vs the other languages. His accent was very clear, but he very much so sounded foreign. Then again, American is full of foreigners :) Like around 20% of the population are immigrants and decent number of both foreigners and born and raised Americans don't speak English. He might be treated as American here, but nobody would doubt English is his second language.
I speak German, English, Spanish, and some more. I'd say his English is just somewhat better than his German, while his main skill seems to be in romance languages. The German guy was so German and by that I mean honest :D
Hi, i speak fluently Italian, German, Swiss German, French, Portuguese , Brazilian Portuguese.
Speak have a good level of English, and I understand Spanish well… I don’t have possibility to exercise 😑.
Is difficult too learn and speak a lot of language when nobody you now speak this languages
Você não conhece ninguém que fala esses idiomas? Aonde vc mora?
@@rafa57games oi, ainda na Suíça-italiana, mais no final do ano eu e minha esposa vamos morar no Espírito Santo.
IMO the English is acceptable. The French is decent and the German is atrocious.
His german was very bad in terms of grammar and vocabluary. The pronounciation was good though.
thanks
He might be B1 in French but hardly more than that
I am French and I don't agree with you. The sentence he said is OK. He has a good pronunciation. I'm skeptical about this kind of exercise because it's very difficult to evaluate somebody on a sentence.
@@yworld3840 B2 maybe ?
@@yworld3840 Same