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  • @evolve_hq
    @evolve_hq  9 місяців тому +9

    Thanks for watching everyone 🙏Let us know where you're watching from in the comments 🌎!

  • @runningriot7963
    @runningriot7963 9 місяців тому +16

    Obsession is the most powerfull thing when it comes to learning a language.

  • @nbayern7000
    @nbayern7000 9 місяців тому +30

    Greetings from a fellow language learner. I'm American, learned German, Russian, Spanish, French, Turkish, Italian and learning Japanese

    • @evolve_hq
      @evolve_hq  9 місяців тому +4

      Greetings, that's awesome! What are your study methods?

    • @yilb332
      @yilb332 9 місяців тому +1

      Fak

    • @TheHhalfScandinavianGirl
      @TheHhalfScandinavianGirl 9 місяців тому

      How did you learn Russian what was/is your routine? :)

    • @FrozenMermaid666
      @FrozenMermaid666 9 місяців тому

      Why would one try learning non-pretty and impossible category 10 languages such as Japanese etc with mostly funny words that aren’t pretty when there are truly gorgeous languages like Norse / Icelandic / Dutch / Gothic / Norwegian / Welsh etc that are the most alpha languages ever with super gorgeous words - choosing wisely, by only choosing the pretty and easy languages, is the key to being a successful polyglot, and I am learning 25+ languages at the moment and have over 50 target languages which are all pretty and easy category 1 and category 2 languages and Irish and Scottish Gaelic are the only category 3 languages on my list and the hardest languages I am learning, and I focus mostly on the prettiest languages ever, and I highly recommend learning the prettiest languages ever Norse / Icelandic / Dutch / English / Norwegian / Gothic / Faroese / Danish / Welsh / Breton / Cornish / Forn Svenska 2gether as they are the prettiest and most refined and most poetic and most modern and coolest languages ever created that are way too pretty not to know and the most fun to learn and speak and hear and see etc, and Manx / Irish / Scottish Gaelic and Hungarian and Slovene and Latvian and Galician / Latin / Gallo are also very pretty, so they are all a great option, and, I am upper intermediate level in Icelandic / Norse / German and advanced level in Norwegian and upper advanced level in Dutch and mid intermediate level in Welsh / Swedish / Portuguese / French / Italian, and I am writer level in English and native speaker level in Spanish which are my first languages that I’ve been learning passively since childhood, and in my other target languages that are newer I am beginner level!

    • @FrozenMermaid666
      @FrozenMermaid666 9 місяців тому +1

      Learning hundreds and thousands of new words every day or week while constantly revising previously learnt words is the only way to see fast progress, so focusing on vocab is the most important part of actually learning the language or languages! I actually watched the video with Icelandic subs, and I cannot believe that I could understand almost every word, so there were less than 20 new Icelandic words that I learned from this video - my Icelandic is so close to advanced level, I must have learnt a lot more words than I thought, as I also use G translate a lot for Icelandic, so I learned maybe one thousand or more new extra words from G translate, as I focus on vocab most of the time! To see fast progress, one must focus mostly on vocab, so, maybe about 90% of the time focusing on vocab and 10% of the time focusing on the other things such as grammar and sounds and pronunciation, and, one should definitely learn all the sounds and all the pronunciation rules and diphthongs and the alphabet and the prepositions and conjugations and the verbs to be / to have / to become / to do / to go etc and the pronouns as a beginner, as it makes it way easier for one to understand more words in a sentence and to properly hear the pronunciation of each word, for example, in Icelandic the letter p is pronounced f when it is before a t, so a word like skipti is pronounced skifti, but I didn’t really notice that until I actually learned that pronunciation rule, so if I wouldn’t have learnt about it, my hern would have probably continued to ignore it and would have probably considered it a mispronunciation or something, so knowing all the sounds and pronunciation rules is very important to hear and notice the correct pronunciation of each word, so I definitely recommend learning those things at the very beginning and also learning the basics, and always learning each word with its pronunciation and spelling, so vocab videos and sometimes G translate and lyrics etc are great ways to learn new words, and always watching every video and movie with subs in the target languages, especially after getting to a mid intermediate level in a language, so after learning the first 5.000 words, I recommend watching everything with subs in that language to learn new words passively from the context and to see previously learnt words over and over, so that they become very automatic!

  • @successcollege4283
    @successcollege4283 9 місяців тому +10

    Love & Respect from Korea
    Great video your guys created...i love it. Polyglot i heard this #weird word# 7 years ago at the age of 57 . Frankly speaking i did not know the Meaning of polyglot. But now struggling to be so called #Polyglot, Amazingly something incredible & unbelievable took place in my life after i launched the multi-language aquisition project. Language learning itself to me a senior learner massively help me evoke curiosity hinden in my heart & brain, also encougage me to keep staying healthy , happy as well. To seniors learning language is an antedode of all worries & diseases, additionally engergy-booster.....no more comfort zone to my life.
    I am just a language lover.

    • @evolve_hq
      @evolve_hq  9 місяців тому +1

      Thank you for sharing your amazing journey! It's inspiring to hear how language learning has brought such positive changes to your life. 🌍

    • @FrozenMermaid666
      @FrozenMermaid666 9 місяців тому +1

      I highly recommend learning the prettiest languages ever Norse / Icelandic / Dutch / English / Norwegian / Gothic / Faroese / Danish / Welsh / Breton / Cornish / Forn Svenska 2gether as they are the prettiest and most refined and most poetic and most modern and coolest languages ever created that are way too pretty not to know and the most fun to learn and speak and hear and see etc, and Manx / Irish / Scottish Gaelic and Hungarian and Slovene and Latvian and Galician / Latin / Gallo are also very pretty, so they are all a great option, and German and Swedish etc can also be learnt 2gether with them - choosing wisely, by only choosing the pretty and easy languages, is the key to being a successful polyglot, and I am learning 25+ languages at the moment and have over 50 target languages which are all pretty and easy category 1 and category 2 languages and Irish and Scottish Gaelic are the only category 3 languages on my list and the hardest languages I am learning, and I focus mostly on the prettiest languages ever, and I am upper intermediate level in Icelandic / Norse / German and advanced level in Norwegian and upper advanced level in Dutch and mid intermediate level in Welsh / Swedish / Portuguese / French / Italian, and I am writer level in English and native speaker level in Spanish which are my first languages that I’ve been learning passively since childhood, and in my other target languages that are newer I am beginner level!

    • @lolal2502
      @lolal2502 9 місяців тому

      ​@FrozenMermaid666 this is crazy

  • @Ozzywonders
    @Ozzywonders 9 місяців тому +11

    Hello from USA 🇺🇸
    Great advice and very interesting ideas, I speak English, Spanish andI’ve been trying to learn German for 1 year. Vielen Dank.

    • @evolve_hq
      @evolve_hq  9 місяців тому +4

      Thanks! We are glad it was insightful. How are you getting on with learning German? 🇩🇪

    • @FrozenMermaid666
      @FrozenMermaid666 9 місяців тому

      I highly recommend learning the prettiest languages ever Norse / Icelandic / Dutch / English / Norwegian / Gothic / Faroese / Danish / Welsh / Breton / Cornish / Forn Svenska 2gether as they are the prettiest and most refined and most poetic and most modern and coolest languages ever created that are way too pretty not to know and the most fun to learn and speak and hear and see etc, and Manx / Irish / Scottish Gaelic and Hungarian and Slovene and Latvian and Galician / Latin / Gallo are also very pretty, so they are all a great option, and German can also be learnt 2gether with them - choosing wisely, by only choosing the pretty and easy languages, is the key to being a successful polyglot, and I am learning 25+ languages at the moment and have over 50 target languages which are all pretty and easy category 1 and category 2 languages and Irish and Scottish Gaelic are the only category 3 languages on my list and the hardest languages I am learning, and I focus mostly on the prettiest languages ever, and also, I am upper intermediate level in Icelandic / Norse / German and advanced level in Norwegian and upper advanced level in Dutch and mid intermediate level in Welsh / Swedish / Portuguese / French / Italian, and I am writer level in English and native speaker level in Spanish which are my first languages that I’ve been learning passively since childhood, and in my other target languages that are newer I am beginner level!

  • @gabrieldariobrasuna-5695
    @gabrieldariobrasuna-5695 9 місяців тому +1

    Really interesting the video! I am from Argentina and I love languages too much. Thanks for all your comments about languages. I have studied English and Portuguese and also sign language. It is not a burden for me to study languages because I am passionate about that

    • @evolve_hq
      @evolve_hq  9 місяців тому +1

      Really appreciate your positive comment. Keep learning and evolving your language skills every day!

  • @AntPet999
    @AntPet999 9 місяців тому +5

    Asks and answers himself. ‘I just love to speak ‘ 😂

    • @evolve_hq
      @evolve_hq  9 місяців тому

      Our Rafa is definitely a talker 🤣🤣

  • @anniepark9938
    @anniepark9938 9 місяців тому +6

    Hi, Rafa! I admire your multi-language talent! I hope to see you in Ulsan, Korea! Jack, welcome to Ulsan, Korea.

    • @evolve_hq
      @evolve_hq  9 місяців тому +1

      Thank you very much, we are looking forward to our Ulsan trip!

  • @crystalinfinite6917
    @crystalinfinite6917 9 місяців тому +2

    Hii everyone, I am a Polyglot from India know about more than 10 languages including English obviously 😅.Hindi, I learnt Urdu, Turkish, Chinese, Russian, Korean, Japanese and little bit of Spanish and Italian ❤

    • @evolve_hq
      @evolve_hq  9 місяців тому

      Thanks for tuning in! This is amazing, how did you learn all of those?

    • @han_ane9763
      @han_ane9763 9 місяців тому

      What's your method ?

  • @Spence-from-Seattle
    @Spence-from-Seattle 9 місяців тому +4

    Please work on the camera focus. The blurry shots (1/3 of the video) really distracted from the great content. For my Duolingo AI talks, I used two cameras and switched between the footage to maintain quality shots. Splicing together the footage takes time, but it's worth it.

    • @evolve_hq
      @evolve_hq  9 місяців тому

      Thanks! We note and appreciate that and have made sure to iron these errors out to produce higher quality videos (this was recorded in November last year) and we are releasing new videos every week!

  • @darkphotographerr
    @darkphotographerr 9 місяців тому +8

    0:31
    So basically the guy learned 2 languages and some phrases in couple of others.
    What's the big deal? Why make such misleading title?

    • @evolve_hq
      @evolve_hq  9 місяців тому +3

      Good point, can you speak more languages? Maybe you can help us improve!

    • @misscamay
      @misscamay 9 місяців тому +6

      agree, not a true polyglot

    • @evolve_hq
      @evolve_hq  9 місяців тому +1

      @@misscamay Thanks for sharing your thoughts!

    • @lolal2502
      @lolal2502 9 місяців тому

      ​@@misscamayare you polyglot?

    • @rashidah9307
      @rashidah9307 9 місяців тому +3

      I disagree... There is no precise definition of polyglot. Some people define it is as speaking 3 or more languages. Plus, I appreciate Rafa's honesty about how well he speaks languages besides French and Spanish. My guess is that he knows more than a few phrases even though he wouldn't describe himself as fluent in them. How many languages do you speak to a really high level? It actually takes quite a bit of commitment and effort to speak 2 foreign languages, and I was happy to hear his foreign language learning advice.

  • @Diimama2-g3u
    @Diimama2-g3u 2 місяці тому +1

    I love your channel, it's very educative

    • @evolve_hq
      @evolve_hq  2 місяці тому

      Thank you very much for saying so 🙏

  • @EkoAriyono1986
    @EkoAriyono1986 2 місяці тому

    Hi Rafa and Jack, thank you for a GREAT video :)🤩
    Rafa, you are amazing! I love the points you made about "having friends or teacher who is very critical with you....feedback is a horrible thing to receive at the start". Having the mentality to accept correction or criticism on our grammar is very important! But for some, this part might be challenging. I couldn't do it at first, but now, I am loving it:)

    Warm greetings from Melbourne, Australia. I am also a language "addict." I studied English (as my second language-my first languages are Javanese and Indonesian/Bahasa Indonesia), Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, Dutch, French, Russian, and Arabic. Currently, I am studying German, Chinese, and Thai at three different universities here in Australia.
    At home, my partner and I speak in German, Japanese, Bahasa Indonesia, and Thai, with a bit of French as topping. I am glad to have a partner who is also such a language "addict."
    Any recommendations on which language I should learn next? 🥰

    • @evolve_hq
      @evolve_hq  2 місяці тому

      Thank you so much for your comment, we really appreciate it! Wow that's a lot of languages! Bahasa Indonesia is also such an interesting language with various influences too! As I am half Pakistani, I would recommend you look into Urdu as it also contains many words influenced by Arabic and has similarities with Bahasa Indonesia too!
      Thanks again for watching Evolve 🙏

  • @sunnykawatachi
    @sunnykawatachi 14 днів тому

    Obsession = Hyper focus ❤

  • @heredia7528
    @heredia7528 9 місяців тому +5

    Maybe you should invite Luca Lampariello or Steve Koufmann.

    • @evolve_hq
      @evolve_hq  9 місяців тому +2

      Great suggestion!

  • @hossein232
    @hossein232 9 місяців тому +3

    Great episode!

  • @digitalmediaproductions7976
    @digitalmediaproductions7976 9 місяців тому +5

    Has anybody heard of camera focus?

    • @evolve_hq
      @evolve_hq  9 місяців тому +1

      Any tips to improve?🙏

    • @Spence-from-Seattle
      @Spence-from-Seattle 9 місяців тому

      ​@@evolve_hq - Record or buy some B roll that you can splice in for the times when the camera goes out of focus. Use multiple cameras so you can switch between them when one goes out of focus. There's a UA-camr, I think Casey, who has tutorials.

    • @Spence-from-Seattle
      @Spence-from-Seattle 9 місяців тому

      Patrick McKinnon: ua-cam.com/video/2OZrFWtRqcw/v-deo.html

    • @Spence-from-Seattle
      @Spence-from-Seattle 9 місяців тому

      @@evolve_hq- I haven't watch him for a while, but Serpentza used to do a great job of incorporating interesting B roll into his videos. B roll is a great way to keep the videos visually compelling: www.youtube.com/@serpentza/

  • @polylangh2635
    @polylangh2635 9 місяців тому

    Enjoyed the episode 👍🏻 greetings from Latin America

    • @evolve_hq
      @evolve_hq  9 місяців тому +1

      ¡Gracias por ver!

  • @Vifnis
    @Vifnis 9 місяців тому +1

    No mention of Artificial Intelligence processing language automatically into other languages... even for video format? What are thoughts here??
    Personally myself I think the obsession bit is spot on, I found myself having the same adventures on the internet trying to look up new and novel things about different cultures using Wikipedia - translate page!! There is so much more information on Wikimedia Group pages than just English alone, especially Wikisource and Wiktionary!!

    • @evolve_hq
      @evolve_hq  9 місяців тому

      Appreciate your insights! AI language processing is definitely becoming an increasingly relevant phenomenon with a lot of potential though we hope people don't rely on it too much! Thanks for sharing! 👍🌐

  • @Baz_09
    @Baz_09 9 місяців тому +1

    Great video.

    • @evolve_hq
      @evolve_hq  9 місяців тому

      Thanks, we are glad you enjoyed it!

  • @Diimama2-g3u
    @Diimama2-g3u 2 місяці тому

    From Nigeria

    • @David-io9lp
      @David-io9lp 8 днів тому +1

      Also from Nigeria. Which language are you learning?

  • @Lucky-te6rs
    @Lucky-te6rs 6 місяців тому

    Not a polyglot? Fake advertisement...using your status to get attention

  • @Mrbombastic-xi9hk
    @Mrbombastic-xi9hk 6 місяців тому +1

    Chatting 💩, he doesn’t even know english

  • @misscamay
    @misscamay 9 місяців тому +2

    not a true polyglot mehhh

    • @evolve_hq
      @evolve_hq  9 місяців тому +4

      Thanks for your comment!

    • @lolal2502
      @lolal2502 9 місяців тому +1

      How many languages makes you polyglot?

    • @xKingofDaNorthx
      @xKingofDaNorthx 9 місяців тому +1

      @@lolal2502knowing 3-5 or more languages makes you a polyglot. The definition of polyglot is someone who knows several languages. Doesn’t really give an exact number.

  • @sun_rise_23
    @sun_rise_23 9 місяців тому +2

    When Ukraine and Russia unite, Russian will be the common language. Historically, this is one nation.

    • @ЛобоваЮля-т8щ
      @ЛобоваЮля-т8щ 9 місяців тому +19

      You should improve your knowledge of history.

    • @sun_rise_23
      @sun_rise_23 9 місяців тому

      @@ЛобоваЮля-т8щtime will tell who is right

    • @Богдан-ь6э4д
      @Богдан-ь6э4д 9 місяців тому +12

      Man, what are you talking about? Go learn history, because your knowledge is terrible. Ukrainians and Russians have never been one nation. And for your information, Ukraine has its own official language, Ukrainian, which is fully functional and has no disadvantages in use.

    • @anthonycastro2146
      @anthonycastro2146 9 місяців тому +4

      Crazy guy

    • @sun_rise_23
      @sun_rise_23 9 місяців тому

      @@Богдан-ь6э4дIf people have the freedom of choice, they are more likely to speak Russian than Ukrainian. Or they will know two languages. But the nationalist regime is forcibly squeezing out the Russian language and depriving people of a choice. It is a violation of human rights when people who have spoken Russian all their lives cannot send their children to the school in their language. Isn't it?