How Professional Spies Learn Languages FAST
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- Опубліковано 3 лип 2024
- 🔎 Real-life professional spies can find themselves in some pretty dangerous situations. The key to their survival? Speaking languages well enough to fool the locals--and hopefully survive! Today's video takes a deeper look at these pros and their methods behind learning languages fast. I found 12 spy secrets that you can steal to help you learn languages even faster.
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0:00 - I found 12 spy secrets
0:49 - Why do spies need language skills?
2:35 - Perfection paradox explained
4:49 - The anti-routine trick
6:38 - The fluency trap
8:04 - Accents: a spy’s double-edged sword
11:33 - Immersive training for spies
14:20 - Memory techniques
16:30 - Listening skills for spies
17:46 - Keeping cool while speaking
19:06 - Code switching
19:58 - Cultural fluency
21:30 - Reading body language
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I think to some extent you do. Learning languages expands you, changes you for the better.
Absolutely no question. I was painfully shy growing up, as the language part of my brain expanded into foreign language my English improved and so did my social skills. Social anxiety reduced to near zero as language improves even now that I'm older.
"Why do you learn so many languages? Are you a spy?"
Guilty as charged!🎉🎉🎉🎉
Bourne theory 😅
😂
Nah, just need more money 😅😅😅
Iike laoshu 50500
8 minutes into the video and not one word about how spies are learning a new language
Thank you for this comment so I could skip past that part but I’m at 11 something and still no talk about learning languages
22 min, still nothing useful
@@josandoy I did see elsewhere that the military does have some crazy full time immersion language school, and the candidates are tested for how well they will pick up the grammar of a new language with these tests using a fake language and if they score high enough they pick their top three languages they want to learn and they are selected for one based on the needs at the time. but the school is not open to the public so it’s not really of any use to us and it didn’t say anything about their methods other than it was full time immersion
I read these comments while the adds and I skipped it
Re: perfection: on UA-cam, I often find that the difference between 99% native-quality and 100%, is that the non-natives are too perfect. Native speakers drop endings, slur their words, etc. One good example of such a 99%-native English speaker is the "History with Kayleigh" channel.
In real life, too!
That's a good point. Inner net, Internet.
It's not that they're "too perfect" it's that natives speak in a natural accent or dialect.
These non-natives (who are technically brilliant) sound like they have swallowed the dictionary with the standard British or American pronounction.
Not perfect in that they are not using connected speech and reductions which makes everything inefficient/slower and harder for the speaker.
Learning a Language is not just learning to translate from your language to the other
It's assimilating to their way of speaking and behaving.
In my native language (spanish) is very easy to spot when someone is a non-native speaker because they sound too formal in casual speech whilest simultaneously having a very limited vocabulary.
😂 Michael Fassbender in "Inglorious Basterds" is the perfect example of that "uncanny valley" being half german he sounds ALMOST german, but a german instantly "smells the rat"
Here is an anecdote: When I was a university student in Montreal, my mother came to visit me. While she was there, I had a couple of phone calls... one in English and one in French. Afterwards she said to me, "When you were speaking French on the phone, why were you waving your arms around and gesturing?" So, yes - our body language changes when we switch languages. I found it amusing that I was gesturing although it was a voice call and the listener couldn't see me!
I started with StoryLearning a year ago but I was frankly lost, I didn't have the basic tools to even begin - it was missing the first baby steps in Spanish. I gave up and started to listen to Michel Thomas Spanish. This gave me the basics and allowed me to take my first faltering steps. After completing this, StoryLearning opened up to me and I find it a wonderfully thought out and immersive course. I still find the spoken stories neigh on impossible to comprehend because of the speed at which they are narrated however the rest is solid and using VLC I can slow the spoken text down. You have ignited a fire in me for Spanish and I thank you for that, Olly.
According to Olly, spies don't use story learning methods.
Pls more videos like this. It's thrilling 😅
I agree!!
I cannot agree more about the ‘perfection’ factor.
I have absolutely no interest in rivalling Dumas, Hugo etc in French despite a certain owl based app demanding perfection. All I want to do is communicate.
20:55 I started to order my drinks shaken, not stirred.
The Welsh guy, hard to understand his English😂
I think today with so many people migrating and multilingualism on the rise using language as a disguise has become pretty easy
He sounds more like a sourcy trying to speak regular English.
AT 21:03 WOW the flowers things- SUCH A SMALL THING- but I would have noticed that too- not sure what to make of it, but it would have gotten my "that's odd" spidey sense up.
20:12 Or how to indicate the number 3 with your fingers the native way...
Great video Olly. Really interesting!
Thank you as always Olly!
Nice to see they don't use story learning method due to the slowness. Thanks for the truth. i almost signed up for the story learning courses. You saved me so much money and time!
I am going to study how spies learn languages more.
Actually, you can pretend to be a Brazilian if you don't say anything. Literally any people in Brazil can pretend to be a Brazilian while not speaking.
Sounds like Finland
@@hyperion3145 Really?
Funny you made this video as when I was a kid my dream was to be spy 😂! I didn’t really know what it meant but I was facilitating by their skills. I speak 4 languages and practice martial arts, maybe I still have a chance 😂
What languages?
@@ellagallagher9877 I speak Portuguese, Ingles, Spanish and German 😁
Great video ❤ thank you!
I have to point out considering you mentioned the James Bond movies, if you have ever read all of the novels you will see that the novels make the movies look like children's fantasy stories! The novels are more nitty gritty, realistic, down to espionage and much more sophisticated than any movie has portrayed them. In fact you could never watch a James Bond movie the same way again after reading the novels.
I love thie series
Burn Notice is awesome.
I can't believe I"m typing this but this video is awesome so I'm happy to add my input having blended in some weird places. It's never good to lie or even stretch the truth but sometimes things get weird. If it's a casual tourist type affair then just be careful like you would anywhere you're from, try and pick up some of the language for fun and simply be polite. If it's more serious than that there are some additional things to consider. If I'm going to a country to work and it's less obvious than a slam dunk where I'm going I show up a few days early to get acclimatized, become familiar with the city, get past jet lag, feel the vibe, see what people are wearing, how they take coffee, what they eat, how they walk, etc. You're in deeper than that, probably shouldn't rush being on the ground because your story that isn't absolutely true will never stand up to any level of scrutiny.
Underrated info
Its not just language.. the culture is Extremely Important.
This was very interesting.
At basic level, I can communicate and make to understand me and what I want to say, in about 7 languages.. but I feel speaking like native in only 2 of them, English not inclusive. And I feel myself very cool with it.. but after that, I see a Russian spy speaking English, and suddenly, I am ashamed. ❤ Only once in my life I have spoken with a Russian man in Spanish, and I couldn't believe he wasn't native Spanish.. Only after some years I realized he was a real spy working at the embassy under cover..
This is an extremely interesting video to me. Language has turned from a hobby when I was pre-K to a way of life as I got older, got some travel under my belt, worked in various foreign countries and had a natural affinity for things outside of the comfort zone. I'm typing this before I watch the video because I have my own tricks to learning a language and eliminating as much accent as possible the longer I'm there, wherever there is.
I've been learning languages for fun since I was 3 and my grandpa taught me some French from his days in Europe in the late 1930s. I also grew up around some NE Brazilian Portuguese speakers since I spoke English and can function in Brazil and weird places like Mexico City and Madrid like a duck to water. It's not necessarily a raw intelligence thing learning languages as 3 year olds from every place start speaking any language fluently, it's a mindset and MOST IMPORTANTLY a lack of fear.
The hardest time I ever had blending in outside of places I'm obviously Gaijin like Japan was in Hungary. I usually look at signs of things I'd recognize, hear a few of the sounds of a language and use hand gestures until I caught some nicety rhythm. From that you can usually start faking body language, just point to stuff on a menu. laugh at jokes when it appears everyone thinks something is funny, carry cash and pay slightly too much at a restaurant, get to know the hotel staff, there are a ton of ways to blend in outside of an ethnically homogenous place such as Japan. Once you learn how to walk around a place spend a ton of time observing without making yourself obvious and you'll begin to pick up how to communicate.
Danke für das Video, Olly. Ich werde es mir später auf jeden Fall anschauen, wenn ich mehr Freizet habe.
Übrigens, habe ich dein deutsche Buch für Ausländer gelesen und vor Kurzem für Mittlestufe gekauft. Ich finde diese Methode ziemlich nützlich, besonders wenn du ins Park gehst und dort die Bücher liest. Bis später.
Hello Olly! I have done the Beginner Spanish Story program. Is your 10-day challenge the same program, in only 10 days? Or could it be used as a follow-up? I did not find the challenge on the Story Learning website. Can you please put the link (rather that QR code)? Gracias!
Here's a good one, which is consistent with what you're saying. When I watch Netflix I'm primarily watching movies or shows from Spain or Italy. I've spoken street level, sense of humor stuff in Portuguese since before I remember. I was educated in English so all of my applied linguistics, meaning technical for a specific field, are in English. Even in a native tongue no one speaks technical level stuff unless you're educated in it, accounting, engineering, chemistry, law, etc.
I listen in for example Spanish which matches their facial expressions and mouth movements but I'm reading in Portuguese with the subtitles. Eventually Spanish and Portuguese begin to merge where I don't really need to watch the screen to follow the plot. My spoken Spanish is total merda but my passive understanding of Spanish improves.
Same way I started learning Dutch. Dutch is a very important business language in Western Europe especially for logistics and entity registration. Took German in high school, speak English instinctively, I always have a Dutch translator no matter what because the Dutch will drop into Dutch casually when convenient at dinner or whatever. Back of my brain hears what they're saying which is either confirmed or contorted by the translator. My goal isn't to learn Dutch per se but knowing what people are saying assists the negotiations the next morning.
_"Bond should have been dead a long time ago"._ Agreed. I do some very bad German as second language, and even I do better than that!
according to wikipedia Jack Barsky was actually a german from East Germany
...which is why he said his word list index cards were in German and English, presumably (15.31). I did wonder.
17:17 Tandem is great for that
Olly is still going! Amazing his subscriber list is so low considering all this great content.
I love the memory palace idea. I always remember where I was when I heard something.... I think it could work.
I've been using them for over a decade I highly recommend you give them a try
17:36 - the only halfway decent spy movie with a pretty good russian from foreigners.
Because the traditional way of learning a language is too slow, and I don't like the education system in my country, and my biggest purpose of learning a new language is to be able to understand movies, play games, read novels, and sometimes talk to locals, understand the humor in the language and feel the "missing" part of my culture. So it seems that sometimes some people think I'm like a spy, but I really don't care
😂 that welsh guy couldn't even pass an english test for proper english
It's kinda funny for me to watch these video and hear all these things out of their mouth because I can speak and English, and Russian, and Chinese and even Persian. I speak all of them fluently, and plus arabic and turkish, all languages which CIA needs)
Yeah, of course you should focus on high frequency, but in reality we need to know what's on the JLPT, even though no one has ever asked me about my siblings in a foreign language ever.
You could definitely pass as a Brazilian.
This is very complex. Mirroring is good but mirror mentally way before you mirror physically. One thing I learned to do is watch how dudes about my height and weight walked. Your gait can give you away really fast. Example ... Brazilians spend a lot of time playing soccer, a lot of time barefoot, and a lot of time on the beach. Your muscles develop differently than someone who went to private primary and secondary schools rowing or playing rugby. I spent a lot of time growing up stretching and being flexible along with specifically targeted workouts for whatever I was doing growing up. Being active by nature and environment I incurred lots of different kinds of injuries large and small. Someone introduced me to yoga before yoga was cool so I could mimic movement pretty well. Bottom line is like anything else, you can try to learn the micro or the macro or both but a also a lot of luck in really blending in effectively. One more tip and I'm done ... the way people use vulgarity is interesting, it dominates a lot more of a conversation in any language than people notice.
I tutor a kid in English and Math whose first language is Chinese. Maybe I’ll learn a Chinese phrase and bust it out randomly.
Haha do it!!
For spies, making a good cover story is at least as important as learning the language well.
If you pretend to be Russian, but don’t know it perfectly, you can say that you grew up overseas for a few years. This is normal since there are lots of Russian speakers abroad. Maybe, your cover is that your Dad worked in Estonia and you went to an international school where people spoke dozens of languages. Then he was transferred to Austria when you were 11. Etc etc. you’d have to be careful. For example research to make sure none of the people around you know Estonian and learn some basic Estonian and German. Make up an anecdote about being bullied for your accent when you came back to Russia.
My aunt is Romanian and her father also lives in the US but he started pretending to be Italian and somehow that made him more popular, until his new friend group had an actual Italian friend move back into town and his cover was completely blown
01:22 Perfection doesn't matter, striving for perfection does. I had to rewind 3-4 times to make an educated guess about what they were talking about🤣. I'm a native Russian speaker, by the way.
So this is where Alice Guo learned filipino quickly
You are very cool 😎😊
hi my name is michael westen
People who speaks languages already on top of list of any spieng agencies- just look at their jobs offer (remeber how they were interested in Arabic speakers during war of therrorism?)
17:00 saved many lives (british) and cost many lives (german)
I would love to learn Russian with stories but I can't see very well so reading anything but braille is very hard for me
Do you want to become a spy?🙃
Lol no. I want to become a translator. Although, I have to say, someone who is legally blind wouldn't be suspected of being a spy so maybe that would be a good idea lol
I completely feel that. I am learning Spanish, and reading it in braille is very difficult. Good luck. I hope something works out for you.
Thank you very much. I hope the same for you
Please continue to make videos like this
This is so long winded, lots of water
Interesting but internally inconsistent.
what do you think a Brazilian person looks like?
Everyone im this video and this comment section could be a Brazilian. Truly the first country on earth where humanity mingled the most😂
I'm brazilian. I have light brown hair, blue eyes and I'm as white as humanly possible. Brazilians come in all colors.
I'm a mix afro brazilian with an italian surname. White name, "parda" as skin color ahaahahha
I guess we’re not gonna talk about doing a deep squat 😅
I still haven't found a reason why, to be honest. But I've been learning a language for the last couple of years nonetheless ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Day 10 of asking to make a video about if Vietnamese is a hard language to Learn
I don't know, but it has the Roman alphabet. At least a tiny bit easier than Japanese and Cantonese, i
I 'd say. (sorry about that glitch)
Well, just a side note, actually anyone may look Brazilian 🤣 Brazil is a melting pot and you find Brazilians of all skin colours.
When I actually allowed myself to relax and make mistakes in grammar, that is when my proficiency became much, much better. What I do work on is correct pronounciation, because people have to be able to understand what the heck I am saying....Think Inspector Clouseau (Pink Panther). Almost all the silly, funny parts of the film have to do with his awful pronounciation (and his surprise attacks on Cato, his butler).
Nothing useful anywhere in this video, where is the advice? Wasted 30 min of my life.
What good does knowing. Say 10
Language's
First time hearing about "Professional spies". Are there some who do it as a hobby ?
For me, there are spies, pirates and opportunists.
That said, I wonder if it could work for common people language learning. Without caring about the accent, just the useful day to day need language.
Spion...
All of the spliced movie footage is very annoying and is a waste of time.
lol all the examples of people speaking Russian had such thick English accents 😂😂 except for the guy that was speaking to Angelina Jolie…
It’s almost like, Russians in KGB have been able to learn English to perfection but Americans and Brit’s can’t learn Russian 😂
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OMG THIS IS STUPID BC I NEED TO LEARN MEXICAN SPANISH
Start working with locals in Texas. My kid learned a lot. He keeps asking me about stuff they say. I'm like "I don't know! That's not Castilian Spanish." Buena suerte. Puede hacerlo.
This video is is a collage of snippets of other people's videos, and it's not even useful
Y cuanto cobran?😂😂😂😂
cool video but man those inbetween videos were unnecessary and got annoying
I like you, Olly, but those constant clips ruin the video and make it hard to watch. Or maybe I'm just getting old...
I like the clips, myself, just sayin’…and I’m 62 😎
I was thinking it’s becoming an entertainment video rather than proper language advice
Remove the word professional
And make Spies like this: SPIES
to enhance the algorithm
Too many clips and visual cut-in's which distract, detract, and lessen the video's impact and interest.
These jump cut clips are awful. Really detract from what is interesting content.
he speaks too fast sometimes is very hard to understand
Pathetic clickbait. Blahblah and more blah without saying anything
agreed, there is no "secret" or shortcut to language learning. just a lot of time and effort. for anyone looking at this comment, google steven kauffman
The guy needs a haircut 💈💈💈💈
And Shave 🪒🪒🪒🪒
huh?
Where did you get that lamp?