I’m a twelve year old trying to learn Russian, and I admire this girl. She has learned so many languages in such a short amount of time! She is so skilled for someone her age, and that’s amazing. I aspire to be like her.
if you want it ask around about how you can join a structured class! even a zoom class or something a couple hours a week. you are at a time in your life where Russian will stick in your head a bit more, so take advantage! very admirable not only to pursue a dream at your age, but to have it at all!
Believe me, this girl doesn’t know the Russian language just as she doesn’t know the Ukrainian language. She knows only a few words in Russian and cannot even formulate a sentence correctly. She couldn’t say anything at all in Ukrainian! I think that quality in this case should be more valuable than quantity. And by the way, I'm half Russian and half Ukrainian.
Idk if it was sarcasm, but, even if it was, the secret of being a polyglot is learning languages (obviously), but, the secret of learning languages is that learning languages is all about INPUT.
She doesn't speak all languages well.But we must take into account that she is only 13 and is trying to speak 20 languages.Most of the people who are criticizing her do not even speak the mother tongue.
André Gonçalves I am pretty sure that they both have incredible talent and skills to learn and speak in foreign languages, but tbh, Ukrainian and Russian part (as a native speaker) didn’t impress me at all. I’ve heard a few general phrases which are very often used by polyglots as a structure - it is a beautiful language - I don’t speak it well - I want to learn it, etc. And if you watch videos with other people who claim that they are polyglots, you will notice (even with subtitles) how they talk about same or close topics over and over again.
It’s better to learn 2-3 languages and speak fluently so you can always rely on your skills, rather than dozens of them at a mediocre level. Not sure about other languages but her French and Russian for instance are very basic. Survival level to buy an ice cream and that’s it. What the point of impressing people for these ‘polyglots’? I personally speak like 4 or 5 foreign languages and only English pays off by far.
Yes she doesn't speak all these language really fluently (like a Native) , but, she is thirteen years old and can speak 13 Languages good. This is hillerious. I am 22 and I learn my third language... And I speak only my motherlanguage really fluently (like a native). Sow. It doesn't makes matter when she make one or two little mistakes.
Vietnamese speaker here. It sounds like she had just started learning it. But the thing with her is that she is not afraid to make mistakes. That’s how you learn languages. I’m sure she is better now. I’m very impressed how many languages she can speak. I’m also on Duolingo to learn a few other languages. I hope I can half as good as her.
y'all are forgetting the fact that this girl is ONLY 13. she isn't fluent in all 20 languages but nonetheless, it's very impressive, let's not invalidate her hard work
@@TheChunkyCrusader Well, "speaking" should entail at least a conversational level in said language. If you can share your own ideas in said language, then you speak it in my opinion.
@@Navajonkee but that level is around 1,000 words. Surely to be fluent per se, one needs to know more. Experts also don't agree what counts as words too or which words are goods ones. Now I would ask, what do you determine to be a conversation? Just simple chat like how one is doing or how one's day went or more?
@@TheChunkyCrusader As I said. If you are able to speak your mind, and share unique ideas with someone, while also being able to properly react to their answers. Repeating phrases is not a conversation, it becomes one onec you put your mind into it.
@@dtango8345 due to isolationism in the early history of the USA, unavoidable by a massive ocean between the US and UK, most linguists agree that US English is more closely related to Old English. Uninfluenced other by European languages.
Don't think she could do much more than it... Like, everyone thinks that this is enough already. Do not tell me she's different... or she wouldn't be learning 21 fucking languages! Guess she'll work at some international company in the future and that's all
@@Trollmeister-nm9es ok but she's 13. She has SO much longer to perfect this. The fact that she has a HUGE base to start on, can read, write and speak most of these languages and be able to communicate for a few minutes is great.
To anyone watching this, concentrate on one language and become fluent before you move on and start learning multiple languages at a time. It’s like knowing coupe simple greeting in few languages doesn’t get you anywhere in life but actually speaking a foreign language fluently will get you places in life .
Well i have seen a video of a Vietnamese guy interviewed her in Vietnamese language entire time ans she spoken fluently so please dont be a hater, she is very talented
@@BrianT-gd7vd I am fluent and I can tell you neither of them are fluent in Vietnamese. It is super basic. The inflection in Vietnamese is very difficult and his is horrible. Hers is a bit better.
@@BrianT-gd7vd bro he isn’t even jealous just pointing out facts… it’s simply not possible for a human being to learn that many languages fluently (maybe if they were raised as a kid in about 4-5 unrelated languages and then decided to learn a few languages that were related to each language. Even then it’d take years and years and maybe couldn’t work). The problem is that she was just raised speaking English, so this isn’t possible. I speak Spanish, and know a fair amount of Portuguese and I can tell you she ain’t fluent. That isn’t an insult; learning her level for each of the languages she’s learned is very impressive, especially her age.
Don't feel bad. She's pretty bad at most of these languages. I'm a native Hindi speaker, I could not understand a word of what she was saying without having those subtitles on. Language learning in reality is a far more involved and difficult thing than just "speaking to friends".
@@darkgreninja8349 I can definitely confirm that, from what I've heard her German is really not that good but neither is his German so the fact that he's saying she's good in German just makes it weightless. In my opinion she should concentrate much more on improving at one Language rather than learning 103 languages at the same time just to show-off. It's actually a shame that they claim to speak those languages if they aren't even able to make those baby conversations flawless.
as a brazilian here, i can say that she has a really strong american accent and she really mixes it with spanish, but yet its so incredible to see how shes really into lenguages and is impressive for a 13 years old!!
Ela é apenas uma criança, mesmo que não fale tão bem, ela pode se comunicar de maneira clara. Isso é MUITO mais do que a maioria dos habitantes do mundo, e é incrível.❤ She is a genious
I admit shes incredible that she can speak 20 languages but he hasnt got tge mannerisms i am a native finn and her pronounciation sucked tbh, but i could still make out the words and understand her so points for that
Not only does she have the ability to speak all these languages what amazed me was that she must do video calls to her friends and she picks up subtle things that are unique to the respective country language. Before learning language was text book or what you regurgitated second hand. She displayed typically a young Japanese teen with her hand gestures and facial expressions, amazing. I noticed this too with the other languages she spoke. The Vietnamese was amazing, most people say it sounds like playing a record backwards lol, I agree but still very fluent! What an amazing young lady and I hope she continues it all and ends up getting fluent. Well done for Finnish, I learned that off a girlfriend and found it the hardest of all strangely enough, no B’s so more P’s use lol
She might not speak most of these languages perfectly but she's always super excited about every language and just starts speaking without worrying about screwing up. That's the most valuable thing when learning languages
Absolutely right... at 13 she'd do very well to properly speak half of the languages claimed... but her enthusiasm for language is undeniable, and is the key. It's not really about being 100% correct and having 'the' accent bang-on, but about attempting communication, and just getting stuck in, and finding the most effective way to be understood. I think she's completely wonderful...
indeed, her german is a bit "rusty"" but still quite good. Since i'm dutch, i speak german as well, like most dutch people do, since Germany is our neigboring country and a lot of germans spend their vacation here. Learning languages givesyou the freedom to travel and understand the people in other countries.. i already feel blessed by speaking english and German, as well as a little french, Italian and a few words in Russian..
Confidence is only good when u know what ure doing , otherwise u are just like sounding a bit off on everything u say and almost everyone would notice that ur speaking is very limited to those things u have memorized . Meaning that if u can have a conversation like introductions it doenst make u a speaker . I speak for myself , I can start talking in french or even Italian but I wont go further than her on any of these languages. And I would never claim out there I speak all those Languages . The fact that she can form basic sentences in Portuguese doesnt make her a speaker at all and whatsoever. I guess the title is a bit off not to say its missleading.
me as an English learner, i would like to have the same confidence to speak English as she does it with all those languages :( i feel really proud of her
Pronunciation matters for shit. Not my problem. The impressive part is that they are 13, with maturity they will properly crystalize their pronunciation, before they even reach the end of their cognitive development. Though girls do mature much quicker than men, and seem to exhibit much earlier signs of intelligence, so I would say it's all very believable. I would recommend they learn whatever they want left, and then focus on reading greek and roman literature before the brain solidifies too much.
Even if she speaks imperfectly, mixes words and vocabularies, speaks foreign languages with mismatched foreign accents ... she's still an excellent communicator who understands how to say and hear the intended meaning. She'll probably get better at all these languages (and learn new ones) over the next decade or two.
I hate it when people judge others for how well they speak an additional language, if you can understand them then who cares? Most of the people who judge only speak one language anyways.
Whenever she spoke in another language she was like, yeah I have lots of chinese friends, I have a bunch of korean friends, A lot of my friends are from Mexico ... Like, I barely have friends in general and this girl has befriended what seems like half the world 😂.
Lol, fr tho. And I'm just sitting here like, "Yeah, I have 7 American friends and a Canadian friend who lives in Mexico..." (he's like a native there).
I like the way she's not shy speaking, even if she make mistakes, she's like "well, it doesn't matter, I'm already proud of myself and I'm killing it". Such a good self confidence, and this is one of the things I find most important to learn a language. I get so stuck cause I don't have that mindset. This video totally changed my mind. BE PROUD OF YOUR LEVEL, AND GO ON LEARNING.
She may be my favorite person on the planet- a complete sweetheart with amazing language skills. She uses the word “friends” loosely, many are brief internet encounters. It’s like saying you speak a language when you only know a few dozen words and phrases. But Don’t judge, she is amazing.
This is so amazing, I’m Dutch and bilingual brought up speaking English. Apparently I spoke the rare language of Biak as a child (an island near New Guinea) being raised by a Papua woman as my nanny who’s daughter who was my best friend. Unfortunately I don’t remember much. Yet I’m blown away by this girls talent.
There are studies than show that. For example, japanese women changes your tone when speak a foreign language (some sort of escape of cultural conventions, maybe?)
@ Lucrack San if you speak Spanish also Italian would be quite easy for you to pick up. German is closer to English as an Anglo-Saxon language. Good luck!
Its genuinely crazy how many friends you can make by just speaking another language, I speak a bit of Japanese and now I have like 50 friends in Japan. :)
Fak men I want to meet and talk with French people but as I'm from the Philippines it's very hard to establish a connection with them.. So my best resort would be to find games or game servers with a lot of French people. Do you guys know any media where I can meet n' greet with people that speak French? Even if ils habitons en Belgique, Afrique, France, I don't know about Quebecois speakers though!
@@pictzone nope! Even Chinese cannot understand the language unless they have learnt it. In Taiwanese there are seven tones, in mandarin there's only four.
@@pictzoneMandarin is the "national language" and official language in Taiwan. Taiwanese is widely used by a lot of the population that lived there before 1949 and isn't Hakka or one of the aboriginal tribes. It's mostly the Fujian dialect of Chinese with some other words like from Japanese mixed in.
She may have joined some online clubs that help promote the ability to speak with others in languages she wants to learn. (that is a thing) In addition to any friends she may have at school from other countries.
I think it’s funny how people want to critique her when she literally has only spoken something other than English for 4 years. 20 languages in 4 years. Most people take 4 years of a language in High School and still aren’t even fluent in that one language!
It's not about critics but about false self-perception. Her Russian is nothing, not to mention Ukrainian. You don't learn a language in a year, not possible.
@@mactiva1 it is possible- everyone learns at different speeds and some may be faster at learning a language than others. It also depends on the language you're learning anyways
@@mactiva1 Yes you can learn a language in a year, of you immerse yourself in the culture. My son speaks fluent Japanese. He learned it in 8 months after living there and having a Japanese girlfriend. It is possible. Kids actually pick up languages quicker than adults.
I am 13 and I can speak 2 languages and I am working on 2 other. Technically I speak 4 languages. I thought that was good, but when I see her being my age and speaking 20 languages, I was amazed. But she does not speak hindi that well.
I’m Japanese and can attest her Japanese is pretty impressive. Great vocabulary, perfect sentences, natural pitch accent. She named her Japanese friends living in Tokyo.
She speaks Russian but she doesn't speak Ukrainian , these are not the same languages. However she is great girl and very gifted ,that's for sure. Bless her .
No...IT IS not Russian yet...maybe with the tíme..bad prononciation and accent...french accent was good but she said two words only and didnt understand the question... anyway she is talented
Her Ukrainian is really bad. She doesn't use conjugations, she mixing Ukrainian and Russian words and her pronunciation in the end sounds more Russian than Ukrainian. At the beginning she said "я можу Україна, Росія, Санкт-Петербург..." that literally means "I can Ukraine, Russia, St. Petersburg" not I want to Ukraine, that in Ukrainian would be "я хочу в Україну, Росію, Санкт-Петербург" or "я хочу до України, Росії, Санкт-Петербурга". And yeah, both of them are not confident in Ukrainian. Source: I'm Ukrainian Still, she is very talanted. Good luck in learning Ukrainian!
yes because uwaga is the same like in poland and means vnymanye in russian but, stare mesto is easily understood in eastern european countries also the word forbidden in ukraina is almost the same like in poland, e.g. torgovaya zaboroneno
If she’s this good at 13, she’ll be mind blowing in her 20s and full-blown polyglot in her 30s. I’m very impressed. As someone who speaks 7 of those languages fluently, she is definitely not 100% perfect in any of them, but she’s understandable and conversational. Isn’t that what it’s all about? I will say her tones in Mandarin are a little rough, especially for city names like 北京，上海，湖南，etc. Overall, she’s a phenom. Keep it up!!!
Well, Dan you are right, but it doesn't mean she will be still so eager and keen on learning languages when is older. You know teenagers, and specially such talented kids develop different interests which later might develop. I know in the 90s, I was working in the Balkans and met this kid in Macedonia, who was like 10 or something who was fluent in English speaking with Georgia/Alabama accent, and could speak dozen of languages at the time, and now seeing him in the video with Wouter, he barely speaks many of them.
You are so right. At 13 years, most kids aren't even fluent in their native language yet. They can converse fine, but their vocabulary isn't fully developed.
@@femalooyt Because people are native in those languages and clearly know if she is speaking properly or not. I speak arabic and she butchered her words and sounds, thats why her arabic section was cut off so quickly.
@@femalooyt There are various other people who critiqued her speech. Issues with verb conjugation, grammar, sentence/word order, and general words/things being said wrong occurred.
I'm German and I can tell her pronunciation is very very good, especially when considering her age. A couple of grammatical errors but I'm sure she will get rid of that pretty fast! She's very very talented!
I agree. She also mixed some Spanish words in while speaking German. To me, she was best with Spanish. I would guess she learned that first and uses it most frequently. She did not sound Austrian, but she was still very good in German.
Es gibt noch hier und da grobe Fehler aber man muss das doch in Relation sehen. Sie ist 13 (!) und lernt noch etliche andere Sprachen. Sie spricht nicht auf Muttersprachenniveau aber mit der Zeit und konsequentem Üben wird das schon werden...
She's only 13, she isn't going to be as good as someone that's spoken the language for years! I think it's still amazing and she's going to go a long way.
Telmo Pena i noticed she mixed a lot with spanish, but i could still understand her. spanish is very similar with portuguese. what i’m trying to say is that she can still communicate.
This girl and any other who is a polyglot is truly amazing to me. It doesn't matter so much how the accent sounds. The effort is what counts, and like someone else said no fear of making mistakes! Think of all the job and travel opportunities. I think its kind of weird to advise someone to only focus on one language at a time, especially kids. The best time for people to learn multiple languages is at a young age. I really enjoyed this video. I'm so inspired.
I can only judge on spanish but the only criticism I can make is that she does a very english thing of making the subject explicit every time. This is required in english, but, while understandable and to some extent, acceptable especially in certain regions, it's not correct spanish: "YO barro la casa, y luego YO limpio el piso, y mas tarde YO cocino" -> "barro la casa, luego limpio el piso, y mas tarde cocino" ("I sweep, then I mop, and later I cook"). There is no need of making the subject explicit as it's part of the verb conjugation. the excessive use of the explicit subject changes the meaning of a mundane sentence like that, to a more accusative tone: it's like you're saying "I do all of that, YOU don't help me at all". once she polishes that, it'll be excellent. her pronunciation of ñ is correct, unlike his: he pronounces ñ as a regular n.
Everyone is like "she ain't fluent yet in this or that language... But still very impressive she speaks so Many"... IT IS FREAKING CONFUSING TO SPEAK MANY LANGUAGES.... you start to mix up the languages... Forget a word. But remember it in another language... Switching as fast as she does is WOWWW.. ALSO the main thing about learning a language is using it. It is the fastest way to learn!! But when the hell do you think she has time to learn 20 languages that well?
@@tteokmochiii I speak 2 languages very fluent (english and dutch), I'm basic fluent in french, like, I can help myself, I understand more than I can speak... and I understand speak some german (bc it's similar to dutch).... still I mix up these 4 languages -.- mostly english and dutch...I get a blackout on words and know them in another language...; it can get very confusing!
Same with me, sometimes I think in some Japanese and I just forget the word "Konnichiwa" exists and I spend like 5 minutes trying to think of the word of how to say hello.
italian english swedish and french are the ones i can speak.. i lost my german when i moved to sweden :( imho is better to speak well 2-3 languages than bad 10 or 20.. that’s just me
Yo le he escuchado un acento venezolano pero también italiano, xddd. No se por qué pero muchas palabras sonaba como con esa enfásis que ponen los italianos cuando hablan en español
It's clearly her second language. Se le entendió perfectamente todo lo que decía, y eso que yo soy de España y su acento era más de Mexico mezclado con Venezuela.
There hasn‘t been any Austrian accent it was very hard to listen to her because she couldn‘t even finish a sentence but she can speak german thats for sure
Ihre Aussprache in Deutsch ist grundsätzlich gut, aber sie spricht nicht fließend. Aber Sie muss auch sehr viel überlegen, während sie spricht. Das ist auch schwierig, zwischen so vielen Sprachen zu switchen. Sein Deutsch ist besser ;o) Aber sie spricht auf jeden Fall verständlich und es ist sehr erstaunlich, dass sie so schnell viele Sprachen gelernt hat. Her pronunciation in German is generally good, but she is not fluent. But she also has to think a lot as she speaks. It's also difficult to switch between so many languages. His German is better; o) But she definitely speaks understandably and it is very amazing that she learned so many languages so quickly.
@carpe diem chill dude I just think it's funny that he says her German is better than his when it isn't. I'm just trying to say that she has to practice German a bit more to really get fluent. It's just a fact that her German isn't great at the time the video was made.
As a German i would never think that she is from Austria never mind from Germany but she is able to do some smalltalk in 21 language at the age of 13 that is impressive!
+1! At 19:06 she says "Ich kann sprechen Hochdeutsch" and that is neither Austrian nor German, its simply wrong and typically the wrong order or words like english people do, the correct form is "Ich kann Hochdeutsch sprechen". And the accent is clearly a strong american accent. But anyway, astonishing, but its by far not "Hochdeutsch" and as well not "Austrian",
Amazing girl !! I start before 20 years working a nurse . So i meet diffrent people from other nationality working with me . Day after day , i start understand and talking their languages ! So the secert of learning other languages is to have other freinds from other countries . But this girl amazing , she talked and writting woow ❤
Definitely impressed with the accent. She speaks the Spanish much better than the guy. Her Spanish is years ahead of his. His Spanish sounds like the equivalent of what is taught here in the U.S. Spanish classes. I don't think his goal is complete fluency or native level. Maybe more like, "as long as I get words out that are placed correctly in a sentence, they'll understand me".
As a Spanish speaker her accent is the best part, she still needs pronunciation work. She makes the same common mistakes and less common ones. But she is still very impressive
Her Japanese is still in progress,like lower-intermediate though, it's utterly impressive to hear from 13-year-old who simultaneously speak 20 languages.
I envy this person a lot O_O I'm 14 but I can only speak English, Chinese, Japanese, a little Korean, and Spanish, but I want to be able to speak a lot more. My native language is Chinese + English from a very young age, and I'm mostly interested in Sino-Xenic/Asian languages, because I like the history behind it & I like 漢字 etymology in general. I just like the culture of the Sinosphere >_
Dad must b proud of such an intelligent child. Her IQ level surpasses artificial intelligence!!.Little girl, plz include Urdu in your repertoire of languages. It is very near to Hindi and Arabic , spoken and understood by a huge segment of world population.
I speak 20 languages if you count being able to speak very poorly. It's really not that hard, let's be real here. 3 years of work and you'll be on your way. Monolingual anglophones always seem to be impressed by anyone who speaks more than 1 language.
@@Trollmeister-nm9es @Trollmeister23 And I guess your reaction shows why your nick is trollmeister. Why dont you post your own video showing how fantastic you are in these languages? Otherwhise shut up.
@@Trollmeister-nm9es ^ exactly this. Monolingual anglophones will be impressed by any claim to "know a language". Fluency in a language is not a joke or easy task, it takes years to get remotely closet to fluent. If she just claimed to "know some stuff in 20 languages", I don't think anyone would disagree, but of course no one would watch that video.
I think when she’s old enough to travel abroad, she’ll be able to pick up the accents and street lingo and be able to hold a real conversation but other than that, she’s taking a step in the right direction for sure.
There's so many words in Portuguese that sounds Spanish but she didn't mix them both. I learned Portuguese because of the 🎶 music. I believe that the music in both languages(Spanish-Portugese)facilitate learning either language. Also I see so much Asian cinemas (martials arts) that I know which language is( Japanese,Mandarin,Cantonese,Korean). I'm learning Hebrew right now. Shalom chavarim and Mischpacha.🤗😄
@@helenasoaresforesti7293 Thanks. Most of my Portuguese I learned thru music and some Brazilian friends, I'm not fluent. But my Spanish language helps learning it faster. Some words sounds very similar in Spanish and Portuguese but lots are different. Thanks again.🤗😉
When I was 13 I could barely speak in my own language (spanish). Even if she isn't fluent in every language, it's still impressive how she can switch so quickly between languages and understand them all. I hope she keeps getting better and has a bright future ahead of her.
@@nitink.a567 Talking fluently is difficult by itself in any language, as well as writing well. Language is difficult to master, is like an art, you need a lot of practise and field work to be good at it. Just because you can articulate a complete sentence doesn't mean you're fluent. Fluency is much more, fluency is being able to have a whole conversation on any matter without hersitating too much or making basic mistakes. For instance, if you tell me you're fluent in English, I would assume you're delusional, because you don't know the difference between "your" and "you're". Keep practising!
I love this girl and her passion. She looks so happy and excited communicating in those languages. For sure, years by now, she would be speaking fluently in multiple languages.
This girl eats the duolingo bird for breakfast
Better yet... She is the Duolingo bird
Hahahhahahahaha
HAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAH :DDDDD
😂😂😂
Right😂
Dad just sitting there listening to all the languages thinking “yes”
Dat dad be like “yes, I’m gonna be popular”
Yes yes yes
Dad you r lucky...u r very kind too
I crown U What are you even talking about?
@ what do you mean?
Father be thinking “are they talking bad about me?”
😂😂😂you’re so funny
Yes we are! 😄
Хах, реально
Just like my husband and hears me speaking English
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I’m a twelve year old trying to learn Russian, and I admire this girl. She has learned so many languages in such a short amount of time! She is so skilled for someone her age, and that’s amazing. I aspire to be like her.
Are you from USA?I can speak Russian, but I need to improve my English.I thought about an Idea tot help each other by talking
@Uvichka_san777 I WILL HELP U I'm learning russain and I speak English. I'm australian
Im a fourteen year old and Im fluent in 2 languages (English and Arabic), and im learning Spanish
if you want it ask around about how you can join a structured class! even a zoom class or something a couple hours a week. you are at a time in your life where Russian will stick in your head a bit more, so take advantage! very admirable not only to pursue a dream at your age, but to have it at all!
Believe me, this girl doesn’t know the Russian language just as she doesn’t know the Ukrainian language. She knows only a few words in Russian and cannot even formulate a sentence correctly. She couldn’t say anything at all in Ukrainian! I think that quality in this case should be more valuable than quantity. And by the way, I'm half Russian and half Ukrainian.
The secret of being a polygot: HAVE MANY FRIENDS
That's why I learn many languages
That’s why I can’t be a polyglot :)
Idk if it was sarcasm, but, even if it was, the secret of being a polyglot is learning languages (obviously), but, the secret of learning languages is that learning languages is all about INPUT.
@@LucasOliveira-wo9xj so true
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She doesn't speak all languages well.But we must take into account that she is only 13 and is trying to speak 20 languages.Most of the people who are criticizing her do not even speak the mother tongue.
André Gonçalves I am pretty sure that they both have incredible talent and skills to learn and speak in foreign languages, but tbh, Ukrainian and Russian part (as a native speaker) didn’t impress me at all. I’ve heard a few general phrases which are very often used by polyglots as a structure - it is a beautiful language - I don’t speak it well - I want to learn it, etc. And if you watch videos with other people who claim that they are polyglots, you will notice (even with subtitles) how they talk about same or close topics over and over again.
It’s better to learn 2-3 languages and speak fluently so you can always rely on your skills, rather than dozens of them at a mediocre level. Not sure about other languages but her French and Russian for instance are very basic. Survival level to buy an ice cream and that’s it. What the point of impressing people for these ‘polyglots’? I personally speak like 4 or 5 foreign languages and only English pays off by far.
That’s besides the point, the simple fact that she knows how to speak that many languages and she’s so young is incredible in itself.
Yes she doesn't speak all these language really fluently (like a Native) , but, she is thirteen years old and can speak 13 Languages good. This is hillerious.
I am 22 and I learn my third language...
And I speak only my motherlanguage really fluently (like a native).
Sow. It doesn't makes matter when she make one or two little mistakes.
@@Hephasto and she only said 2 phrases in Arabic with wrong Grammar
The poor dad who didn't have any subtitles...
Probably just listening for his name...
Probably her dad speaks same languages 😉
ahahaha
@@LoreDana2 noo he doesn't
@@LoreDana2 he doesnt lol
Vietnamese speaker here. It sounds like she had just started learning it. But the thing with her is that she is not afraid to make mistakes. That’s how you learn languages. I’m sure she is better now. I’m very impressed how many languages she can speak. I’m also on Duolingo to learn a few other languages. I hope I can half as good as her.
im vietnamese american, i used to speak vietnamese but i dont speak it anymore, cuz vietnamese havent treated me well
y'all are forgetting the fact that this girl is ONLY 13. she isn't fluent in all 20 languages but nonetheless, it's very impressive, let's not invalidate her hard work
Yeah because speaking doesn't entail fluency always for every language
@@TheChunkyCrusader Well, "speaking" should entail at least a conversational level in said language. If you can share your own ideas in said language, then you speak it in my opinion.
@@Navajonkee but that level is around 1,000 words. Surely to be fluent per se, one needs to know more.
Experts also don't agree what counts as words too or which words are goods ones.
Now I would ask, what do you determine to be a conversation? Just simple chat like how one is doing or how one's day went or more?
@@TheChunkyCrusader As I said. If you are able to speak your mind, and share unique ideas with someone, while also being able to properly react to their answers. Repeating phrases is not a conversation, it becomes one onec you put your mind into it.
We're not forgetting anything. But self awareness is important. She shouldn't become another Wouter.
English speaker here, can confirm yes she speaks English
are you from USA or UK?...
Native English is from UK, the English u speak is Americanized garbage.
@@dtango8345 there was no reason you had to be rude about the Americanized english.
@@dtango8345 due to isolationism in the early history of the USA, unavoidable by a massive ocean between the US and UK, most linguists agree that US English is more closely related to Old English. Uninfluenced other by European languages.
@@fernandoposas3691 UK :)
Even if she is not fluent in the all the languages, she has a real knack for imitating accents. Imagine what she can do when she's 23.
Don't think she could do much more than it...
Like, everyone thinks that this is enough already. Do not tell me she's different... or she wouldn't be learning 21 fucking languages!
Guess she'll work at some international company in the future and that's all
@@3TG3645 that's all? How many laguages do YOU speak, Tudo?
When she is 23 i don’t care wat comes out of her mouth...
@@Trollmeister-nm9es ok but she's 13. She has SO much longer to perfect this. The fact that she has a HUGE base to start on, can read, write and speak most of these languages and be able to communicate for a few minutes is great.
@@3TG3645 3. Native German, fluent English, French, and some Latin, but that doesn't count as "speak" 😂
To anyone watching this, concentrate on one language and become fluent before you move on and start learning multiple languages at a time. It’s like knowing coupe simple greeting in few languages doesn’t get you anywhere in life but actually speaking a foreign language fluently will get you places in life .
Well i have seen a video of a Vietnamese guy interviewed her in Vietnamese language entire time ans she spoken fluently so please dont be a hater, she is very talented
@@BrianT-gd7vdbro he’s just saying to learn a language fluently before trying 19 at once since it’s simpler, he isn’t hating 💀 💀
@@BrianT-gd7vd I am fluent and I can tell you neither of them are fluent in Vietnamese. It is super basic. The inflection in Vietnamese is very difficult and his is horrible. Hers is a bit better.
@nguzen: ya wish ya can speak many languages as she does
@@BrianT-gd7vd bro he isn’t even jealous just pointing out facts… it’s simply not possible for a human being to learn that many languages fluently (maybe if they were raised as a kid in about 4-5 unrelated languages and then decided to learn a few languages that were related to each language. Even then it’d take years and years and maybe couldn’t work). The problem is that she was just raised speaking English, so this isn’t possible. I speak Spanish, and know a fair amount of Portuguese and I can tell you she ain’t fluent. That isn’t an insult; learning her level for each of the languages she’s learned is very impressive, especially her age.
She just called me ‘lonely’ in 20 languages, she has so many international friends.
Why doesn't this comment have hundreds of likes? Lmao
Masz "samotny" w 21 języku
Sameee, made me feel so bad :(
Sameee, made me feel so bad :(
Sameee, made me feel so bad :(
“My goal is to speak 103 languages”. Most aggressive Goal I’ve ever heard!
Cuéntame cómo piensas hacerlo?
진짜?! 대박
@@studylearning4074 no es imposible
First person ever inspired by C3PO.
加油💪💪你可以的
I have never felt so dumb in my life.....
@@rebecaalmeida8554 Well that certainly didn't make me feel less dumb...LOL. I subscribed...Thanks.
I speak, write and read in more than 5 languages fluently and she intimidated me a little bit, but that many languages is inspiring.
Don't feel bad. She's pretty bad at most of these languages. I'm a native Hindi speaker, I could not understand a word of what she was saying without having those subtitles on. Language learning in reality is a far more involved and difficult thing than just "speaking to friends".
No same. But hey, I'm fine with being dumb.
@@darkgreninja8349 I can definitely confirm that, from what I've heard her German is really not that good but neither is his German so the fact that he's saying she's good in German just makes it weightless. In my opinion she should concentrate much more on improving at one Language rather than learning 103 languages at the same time just to show-off. It's actually a shame that they claim to speak those languages if they aren't even able to make those baby conversations flawless.
as a brazilian here, i can say that she has a really strong american accent and she really mixes it with spanish, but yet its so incredible to see how shes really into lenguages and is impressive for a 13 years old!!
Verdade mn
Cocordo, mais é impressionante que as crianças podem aprender....
De fato, português ele falou melhor do que ela. E eu me matando pra aprender só japonês 😅
The same with Ukrainian. She really didn't say a word in ukrainian, mostly russian words and russin cities pronunciation as well
Foi um portunhol kkk mas ela é maravilhosa e ainda vai aprimorar mt, certamente
she called me stupid in 20 different languages
Not at all, not knowing many languages doesn’t mean you’re dumb, it just means you don’t know yet or have a different thing that’s your thing
@@Cassxowary joke
@@Cassxowarybruh he was joking
Not only... she can also write it down for you in case you don't understand it 😂🤣😂 ...btw, I'm just joking 😁
@@Cassxowary I’m learning Spanish and sign at the same time
"He doesn't understand anything, because he is American." lmao
She’s right though; the average american speaks 0.8 languages!
Edit: for everyone getting mad at me, please learn to take a joke
TwoRoyBoys hahahaha omg u made me laugh so hard
TwoRoyBoys 😂😭
@@tworoyboys208 I never understood that. Like they don't even know English well or what?
Алек Алистарх
It’s not usual to see people speaking their native languages on a perfect way
She has so many friends from other countries..This gives her many opportunities .Keep it up !
Since I have many friends from different countries, it helps me so much to be able to speak with them because most of them don't speak any English
all friends from italki :DDD
I have too many friends but i donot know a word of them .
i wish i would have done this love to learn to speak french.
wo ye ai zhong wen!
Ela é apenas uma criança, mesmo que não fale tão bem, ela pode se comunicar de maneira clara. Isso é MUITO mais do que a maioria dos habitantes do mundo, e é incrível.❤ She is a genious
What's a "genious"?
Com certeza ela está na frente da maioria, imagina hoje em dia, como ela deve estar com os idiomas
Eu sofrendo pra aprender inglês com 15 anos, e ela sabia falar 20 com apenas 13, imagina como deve estar falando agora
Tá aprendendo inglês?@@lucasjosebrandt5519
Lol she trash talked her dad and he didn’t understand😂😂
All my spanish friends told me.....I thought she called me old lol !
Farrbo 99 are you the dad?
Farrbo 99 if you’re the dad, probably consider starting a UA-cam channel with her
Tyler Glass that’s a great
Hasta a mi me dio cosita 😂😂
This is so incredible. She totally takes on the mannerisms of each language she speaks.
That’s so important if you really want to have the accent. You have to take up the culture with it.
I was thinking the same thing! 😁
I admit shes incredible that she can speak 20 languages but he hasnt got tge mannerisms i am a native finn and her pronounciation sucked tbh, but i could still make out the words and understand her so points for that
Not Russian though:) that was really far from ok:)
@@JcHammez yeah
So if you want to speak chinese you have to look like you are always screaming, rude and eating dogs
She’s only 13. She’s still learning these languages so don’t bash her for not being perfect in all 20 languages
Say it louder for the people in the back to hear
nahh they said she SPEAKS 20 , can I talk to the manager please? I want a refund
who bashes her? we just say it how it is.
Albert krank I would LOVE to see you speak 18 languages :)
Albert krank she’s a kid, don’t ruin her spirits. She still learning
Not only does she have the ability to speak all these languages what amazed me was that she must do video calls to her friends and she picks up subtle things that are unique to the respective country language. Before learning language was text book or what you regurgitated second hand. She displayed typically a young Japanese teen with her hand gestures and facial expressions, amazing. I noticed this too with the other languages she spoke. The Vietnamese was amazing, most people say it sounds like playing a record backwards lol, I agree but still very fluent!
What an amazing young lady and I hope she continues it all and ends up getting fluent. Well done for Finnish, I learned that off a girlfriend and found it the hardest of all strangely enough, no B’s so more P’s use lol
When you can speak languages more than the years you existed.
😮
I wish I could speak east Asian languages like Mandarin, Korean, and Japanese. Especially korean it sounds so beautiful
I can barely speak my native language which is Spanish, bu my English is probably worst so...
I speak spanish, I'm still learning english and I started to learn Portuguese.
Orlando Yahir, wow! Then goodluck!!!
She might not speak most of these languages perfectly but she's always super excited about every language and just starts speaking without worrying about screwing up. That's the most valuable thing when learning languages
Absolutely right... at 13 she'd do very well to properly speak half of the languages claimed... but her enthusiasm for language is undeniable, and is the key. It's not really about being 100% correct and having 'the' accent bang-on, but about attempting communication, and just getting stuck in, and finding the most effective way to be understood. I think she's completely wonderful...
indeed, her german is a bit "rusty"" but still quite good. Since i'm dutch, i speak german as well, like most dutch people do, since Germany is our neigboring country and a lot of germans spend their vacation here.
Learning languages givesyou the freedom to travel and understand the people in other countries.. i already feel blessed by speaking english and German, as well as a little french, Italian and a few words in Russian..
Confidence is only good when u know what ure doing , otherwise u are just like sounding a bit off on everything u say and almost everyone would notice that ur speaking is very limited to those things u have memorized .
Meaning that if u can have a conversation like introductions it doenst make u a speaker . I speak for myself , I can start talking in french or even Italian but I wont go further than her on any of these languages. And I would never claim out there I speak all those Languages . The fact that she can form basic sentences in Portuguese doesnt make her a speaker at all and whatsoever. I guess the title is a bit off not to say its missleading.
me as an English learner, i would like to have the same confidence to speak English as she does it with all those languages :( i feel really proud of her
Pronunciation matters for shit. Not my problem. The impressive part is that they are 13, with maturity they will properly crystalize their pronunciation, before they even reach the end of their cognitive development. Though girls do mature much quicker than men, and seem to exhibit much earlier signs of intelligence, so I would say it's all very believable. I would recommend they learn whatever they want left, and then focus on reading greek and roman literature before the brain solidifies too much.
People saying her languages are spoken poorly. She speaks TWENTY languages, poorly or not. I speak one and cant say I speak it well.
Shes 13! sheesh...
Kale Freilinger lol my ladies Italian, she’s speaks perfect English am lost with Italian. This kid is remarkable.
Even if she speaks imperfectly, mixes words and vocabularies, speaks foreign languages with mismatched foreign accents ... she's still an excellent communicator who understands how to say and hear the intended meaning.
She'll probably get better at all these languages (and learn new ones) over the next decade or two.
Imagine criticizing a 13-year-old's fluency in 20 languages. Good like being taken seriously.
I hate it when people judge others for how well they speak an additional language, if you can understand them then who cares? Most of the people who judge only speak one language anyways.
The best thing about her language is she doesn’t care about mistakes. She just happily speak what she try to express.
❤❤
Whenever she spoke in another language she was like, yeah I have lots of chinese friends, I have a bunch of korean friends, A lot of my friends are from Mexico ...
Like, I barely have friends in general and this girl has befriended what seems like half the world 😂.
😂😂😭😭
haha, it's just she doesn't know any other phrases on those languages, a fake here
thats bc high school is trash you dont learn anything
Army is everywhere 😍
Lol, fr tho. And I'm just sitting here like, "Yeah, I have 7 American friends and a Canadian friend who lives in Mexico..." (he's like a native there).
I like the way she's not shy speaking, even if she make mistakes, she's like "well, it doesn't matter, I'm already proud of myself and I'm killing it". Such a good self confidence, and this is one of the things I find most important to learn a language. I get so stuck cause I don't have that mindset. This video totally changed my mind. BE PROUD OF YOUR LEVEL, AND GO ON LEARNING.
Yes making mistakes and saying sorry in front of a camera! That's something!
At this age my students are really shy(10-14)
Thank you 😄
That's how you learn 😊
Who sees his father while he supports something even he doesn't understand, he moved his head 😂😂
Lol me..
Maybe he speaks Korean, lol!
Yeah his korean is pretty good~ but I can tell that he focuses on some of the other languages more
Her*
We all love you Cameron. Thank you for loving other languages and cultures. Your passion and respect will bring peoples closer together.
Daughter: my dad is old
Dad: *hope you can pray for mercy in 20 languages*
😂😄
🤣🤣🤣
@@cecibelcalderon9378 😘
@@soltanprime9162 sImP rEEeEe
No, many parents aren’t abusive...
Her at 13: knows more languages than years she’s been alive
Me at 13: liking my own comment :)
Hehe...I also like my own comments and I am also 13 but I know only the last digit I just know 3 languages and that too not fluently😅
I liked your comment! :D Have a great day!
@@jain_taisha I’m learning Japanese, Korean, and French
me at 13: finally stops lying about my age on the internet
@@silk1440 I-
everyone: she speaks so many languages and she's only 13!
me: how does she have so many friends???
lmao rightttt
@@sandypusineri1459 yasss
XDXDXDXDXDXD
Internet
She may be my favorite person on the planet- a complete sweetheart with amazing language skills. She uses the word “friends” loosely, many are brief internet encounters. It’s like saying you speak a language when you only know a few dozen words and phrases. But Don’t judge, she is amazing.
This is so amazing, I’m Dutch and bilingual brought up speaking English. Apparently I spoke the rare language of Biak as a child (an island near New Guinea) being raised by a Papua woman as my nanny who’s daughter who was my best friend. Unfortunately I don’t remember much. Yet I’m blown away by this girls talent.
I noticed one thing. When she speaks a different language, her vibe or personality switch to the culture of the language she speaks.
Its normal that happens with me too, i dunno why.
Happens with most multilingual speakers. Also just speaking different accents of the same language. Language is connected to culture.
There are studies than show that. For example, japanese women changes your tone when speak a foreign language (some sort of escape of cultural conventions, maybe?)
its common .. i speak Italian Chinese English fluently..so i have 3 personalities...lel
Yeah my Spanish self is very joking and front 😂. My English side is very shy and empathetic.
"he doesn't understand anything because he's american".... ouch
You know she didn’t mean what you’re trying to imply right? 🙄
Sad but true HAHAHAHAHAHA
It's true for most
Truth hurts
@@sol-ez3xb what truth? That the United States of America is the best country in the world and everyone is desperate to come? Oh ok.
I speak five languages and people find that amazing. This girl is a prodigy.
congratulations, and have luck with your languages
I speak 7 and after watching this, I feel like I'm normal as she's a prodigy like you said.
@@ronafortnitenoobie1392 i only speak 2 :( english and spanish
@@ronafortnitenoobie1392 and I'm learning Deutsch, is hard to memorize the words to say it after but I'm trying to
@ Lucrack San if you speak Spanish also Italian would be quite easy for you to pick up. German is closer to English as an Anglo-Saxon language. Good luck!
what a joy to listen to the conversation with this young lady. WOW!! I am just bowled over.
Wouter: *speaks a language*
13 year old: * responds in that same language*
Her dad: *looks at her and nods his head*
😅
🤣🤣
😂🤣 true
What’s a wouter?
@@remorse4362 why is that so funny😂😂😂
Her German was okay. But taking in the consideration she’s only 13. That’s pretty impressive!!
@king of rains who cares?
SWAT AleN I do
@@maike2024 who cares that U care
"But taking in the consideration she speaks 20 LANGUAGES, that is almost incredible."
@@lucascruz3977 correction that 'is' incredible
She has like a billion friends in every country and i don't even have 5 friends in total...
Its genuinely crazy how many friends you can make by just speaking another language, I speak a bit of Japanese and now I have like 50 friends in Japan. :)
omg sameeeee..
Yeaah, my friends are all monolingual.
I managed to learned just a couple of language from internet and that’s all…
Fak men I want to meet and talk with French people but as I'm from the Philippines it's very hard to establish a connection with them.. So my best resort would be to find games or game servers with a lot of French people. Do you guys know any media where I can meet n' greet with people that speak French? Even if ils habitons en Belgique, Afrique, France, I don't know about Quebecois speakers though!
@@reapd2576 graal online classic is multilingual
As a Taiwanese, it's extremely incredible that she spoke Taiwanese, although just a few seconds. Generally no foreigner wants to learn it.
Maybe learn Polish next?? It is quite challenging language...
Isn't it just mandarin?
@@pictzone nope! Even Chinese cannot understand the language unless they have learnt it. In Taiwanese there are seven tones, in mandarin there's only four.
@@h72gospel yeah but still, isn't mandarin still pretty popular in taiwan too? Maybe even the main language? (On tv, official documents, etc)
@@pictzoneMandarin is the "national language" and official language in Taiwan. Taiwanese is widely used by a lot of the population that lived there before 1949 and isn't Hakka or one of the aboriginal tribes. It's mostly the Fujian dialect of Chinese with some other words like from Japanese mixed in.
I’m her dad - proud, but deeply confused.
Hi dad!
Radwaan Mohsin i’m sorry but are u stupid???
@@elinevandelden2631 dude, its a joke. relax
Radwaan Mohsin Ahhahahahaha
Radwaan Mohsin i’m a girl, never call a girl dude. Thank u
She had more friends than my whole family lolike
Anyone else wondering how this 13 year old has so many friends from all over the world? I can barely make 1 😂
Maybe she studied. 👀
She may have joined some online clubs that help promote the ability to speak with others in languages she wants to learn. (that is a thing) In addition to any friends she may have at school from other countries.
Italki
I'd love to see a follow up of this video now 3 years later and how her learning has improved since
I'm brazilian. Her accent is amazing and I did understand everything, but she mixed the languages. She started to speak Spanish in the middle lol
I used to speak in 3 languages in one sentence and.even.now if I forget a word I insert the English word.
@@thenaturalyogi5934 I do that too I’ll speak in different languages in the same sentence.
That just further proves that she is actually learning these languages and is not simply memorizing certain phrases and responses. She’s awesome!
My mother language is Portuguese. I could not understand shit, except when they spoke Spanish (then I got it as I am fluent in Spanish). LOL
Siiim, mas é normal porque ela sabe muitas línguas né 🇧🇷
She’s only been learning languages for 4 years! This is just WILD!
@@kishazirka true dat :'(
@Burger Kang i know right, being so fluent in these many foreign languages def requires 40 hours of practice lmfao
@@aayushixi like thousands of hours
@@kishazirka everyone has a gift some just find it sooner than others
@@kishazirka everyone has a gift some just find it sooner than others
I think it’s funny how people want to critique her when she literally has only spoken something other than English for 4 years. 20 languages in 4 years. Most people take 4 years of a language in High School and still aren’t even fluent in that one language!
Ur so right
Well said!
It's not about critics but about false self-perception. Her Russian is nothing, not to mention Ukrainian. You don't learn a language in a year, not possible.
@@mactiva1 it is possible- everyone learns at different speeds and some may be faster at learning a language than others. It also depends on the language you're learning anyways
@@mactiva1 Yes you can learn a language in a year, of you immerse yourself in the culture. My son speaks fluent Japanese. He learned it in 8 months after living there and having a Japanese girlfriend. It is possible. Kids actually pick up languages quicker than adults.
Wow, soy de México, y el español de la niña es super bueno, es fluido, se oye bien. Muy bien por ella.
Gracias ❤❤❤
Soy de Perú. Es increíble cómo esta niña puede pronunciar las dos clases de "r" que existe en el idioma español. Su español es muy bueno.
When you sign up for all the languages on Duolingo
haahahah
Lol 😂
And you can speak a few memorized sentences and not be fluent in a single language.. Thats duolingo for yah
JAJAJAJA XD
Right!
*Cameron at 13:* Speaks 20 languages
*Me at 13:* Gets in trouble for falling asleep in class
I am 13 and I can speak 2 languages and I am working on 2 other. Technically I speak 4 languages. I thought that was good, but when I see her being my age and speaking 20 languages, I was amazed. But she does not speak hindi that well.
Er wurde von Nazis geschlagen, jetzt ist er endlich zurück: ua-cam.com/video/r5CFHL5MbzI/v-deo.html
That happened to me last week on my spanish lession
@@goldmannnachrichten8880 My boy what you saying
@@myazz3078 he said someone got hit by a nazi and is back home now but when u click his link u get only bullshit
People in the comments are impressed about how many languages she speaks and I’m here impressed on how many friends she haves 👁👄👁
*has
Karla Ortega do you really think he doesn’t know da?
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This little girl is from another planet at age 13 speaking 20 languages is incredible bravo 👏 to this little girl
I’m Japanese and can attest her Japanese is pretty impressive. Great vocabulary, perfect sentences, natural pitch accent. She named her Japanese friends living in Tokyo.
I know a Japanese woman married to a Korean man. She said those languages are very similar.
Japaneses are very polite people
I am so happy because I understood almost everything she said in japanese 😭 お嬢ちゃんはとてもかわいいねええ 😊
I honestly thought it was terrible. Not trying to be mean, but it was not very good.
@NotKuroki it’s because Japaneses are very kind. You can say a few words and get a lot of praise
She speaks Russian but she doesn't speak Ukrainian , these are not the same languages. However she is great girl and very gifted ,that's for sure. Bless her .
No...IT IS not Russian yet...maybe with the tíme..bad prononciation and accent...french accent was good but she said two words only and didnt understand the question... anyway she is talented
Her Ukrainian is really bad. She doesn't use conjugations, she mixing Ukrainian and Russian words and her pronunciation in the end sounds more Russian than Ukrainian. At the beginning she said "я можу Україна, Росія, Санкт-Петербург..." that literally means "I can Ukraine, Russia, St. Petersburg" not I want to Ukraine, that in Ukrainian would be "я хочу в Україну, Росію, Санкт-Петербург" or "я хочу до України, Росії, Санкт-Петербурга". And yeah, both of them are not confident in Ukrainian.
Source: I'm Ukrainian
Still, she is very talanted. Good luck in learning Ukrainian!
Moonman she’s sleeping on that Russian accusative case😴
По-русски она почти не говорит.
yes because uwaga is the same like in poland and means vnymanye in russian
but, stare mesto is easily understood in eastern european countries
also the word forbidden in ukraina is almost the same like in poland, e.g. torgovaya zaboroneno
Cameron at 13: *speaks like 20 languages* Me at 13: *slowly closing the fridge to see if the light inside goes out*
Me : *with different refrigerator*
Me with a freezer wondering wasn’t there a light in here?
I speak 4 languages
Me 13 learning Japanese as a second language:
@@vslimes9062 Do you speak Japanese?
She actually speaking in those languages.. unlike most of UA-camrs, whom know two sentences..
IMPRESSIVE!!
If she’s this good at 13, she’ll be mind blowing in her 20s and full-blown polyglot in her 30s. I’m very impressed. As someone who speaks 7 of those languages fluently, she is definitely not 100% perfect in any of them, but she’s understandable and conversational. Isn’t that what it’s all about? I will say her tones in Mandarin are a little rough, especially for city names like 北京，上海，湖南，etc. Overall, she’s a phenom. Keep it up!!!
Which languages do you speak?
Well she is already a polyglot tho.
She’s pretty much perfect in Spanish. You can tell she’s foreign but she sounds like someone who has studied it for several years.
Well, Dan you are right, but it doesn't mean she will be still so eager and keen on learning languages when is older. You know teenagers, and specially such talented kids develop different interests which later might develop. I know in the 90s, I was working in the Balkans and met this kid in Macedonia, who was like 10 or something who was fluent in English speaking with Georgia/Alabama accent, and could speak dozen of languages at the time, and now seeing him in the video with Wouter, he barely speaks many of them.
You are so right. At 13 years, most kids aren't even fluent in their native language yet. They can converse fine, but their vocabulary isn't fully developed.
She's not only fluent in many languages but she also adopted the accent which makes her look as if it's her native language... Very impressive!
She is barely fluent lmfao. 50% of her languages are incomprehensible to the point where she isn't even fluent.
How can you tell?
@@femalooyt Because people are native in those languages and clearly know if she is speaking properly or not. I speak arabic and she butchered her words and sounds, thats why her arabic section was cut off so quickly.
@@BlancoWilliams it wasn’t only Arabic. French and Russian as well.
@@femalooyt There are various other people who critiqued her speech. Issues with verb conjugation, grammar, sentence/word order, and general words/things being said wrong occurred.
I understand 100% of it...
Thanks to the captions!
Hahah same
They had us in the first half not gonna lie
I wonder how long time she spends every day learning these languages? She's incredible!
I think 2 years
@@Mooi_konijntje😮
She's a chatterbox. That's one of the reasons she's so good at languages.
She's a very mature person.
uP
“Chatterbox” LMAO
@John Doe agreed, definitely wouldn't want too have a conversation with her. But props to her for managing to get an idea of some languages.
@John Doe yeah man she acts like a 13 year old
Exactly
Everyone: focused on how she speaks many different languages
Me: How many friends does she have???
Bruh copy paste
Actually she goes to my school and sits with me at lunch she actually has a lot of good friends.
i’m her best friend
She says in the video that she has a lot of friends in other countries
@@abbychan8443 actually
I'm German and I can tell her pronunciation is very very good, especially when considering her age. A couple of grammatical errors but I'm sure she will get rid of that pretty fast! She's very very talented!
I agree. She also mixed some Spanish words in while speaking German. To me, she was best with Spanish. I would guess she learned that first and uses it most frequently. She did not sound Austrian, but she was still very good in German.
Komm schon Lukas.. sei doch ehrlich
@@cutupressler1897 Wieso, findste nicht? 😁
Es gibt noch hier und da grobe Fehler aber man muss das doch in Relation sehen. Sie ist 13 (!) und lernt noch etliche andere Sprachen. Sie spricht nicht auf Muttersprachenniveau aber mit der Zeit und konsequentem Üben wird das schon werden...
@@cutupressler1897 joa also gut fand ich das jetzt auch nicht 😅 Aber ist ja ein Anfang…
Wow! God bless her! She’s fantastic 🎉👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
She's only 13, she isn't going to be as good as someone that's spoken the language for years! I think it's still amazing and she's going to go a long way.
if she still training she going to be like a native in all 20 languages she speaks
She sounds like she could be an anime voice character with her Japanese😂
Ikkkkkk😂😂
That's what I thought, as well! 👍
😂😂thank you
@@kidpolyglot Its probably because your so young so your voice is fairly high pitched like the characters
@@kidpolyglot no hate, your probably the best child polyglot I've ever seen
so what if she’s not PERFECT in all of them? she can still communicate well!
AMEN
Can she be my tutor?
Izzy Duprey no?
True but, for an exemple, I couldn't understand her portuguese. She mixed it with Spanish
Telmo Pena i noticed she mixed a lot with spanish, but i could still understand her. spanish is very similar with portuguese. what i’m trying to say is that she can still communicate.
This girl and any other who is a polyglot is truly amazing to me. It doesn't matter so much how the accent sounds. The effort is what counts, and like someone else said no fear of making mistakes! Think of all the job and travel opportunities. I think its kind of weird to advise someone to only focus on one language at a time, especially kids. The best time for people to learn multiple languages is at a young age. I really enjoyed this video. I'm so inspired.
Mandarin is hard lol as a native Chinese speaker I’d say her level is pretty good at her age
谢谢！ 中文是我最喜欢的语言之一，因为我非常爱中国。
Polyglot Cameron Welcome to China my friend！
Polyglot Cameron あなたの日本語は本当に素晴らしいです😲😲😲
@@闲人-u1h How I see it: *jdheoebs8qhqosgdoe983hs73neuek*
I'd say Mandarin is the easiest language (for me) because I'm Thai, the structures make a lot sense to me even more than English
it’s crazy because even with the languages that she’s limited in, her pronunciation and mannerisms are on point!
Cept for Korean, that's the only one I can pass judgment on.... she's way off. But hey, it's nothing compared to all that she can do...
She’s my friend!! :)
I can only judge on spanish but the only criticism I can make is that she does a very english thing of making the subject explicit every time. This is required in english, but, while understandable and to some extent, acceptable especially in certain regions, it's not correct spanish: "YO barro la casa, y luego YO limpio el piso, y mas tarde YO cocino" -> "barro la casa, luego limpio el piso, y mas tarde cocino" ("I sweep, then I mop, and later I cook"). There is no need of making the subject explicit as it's part of the verb conjugation. the excessive use of the explicit subject changes the meaning of a mundane sentence like that, to a more accusative tone: it's like you're saying "I do all of that, YOU don't help me at all". once she polishes that, it'll be excellent. her pronunciation of ñ is correct, unlike his: he pronounces ñ as a regular n.
I feel like the russian and ukrainian is pretty good, even german was not bad at all, that's probably all I can rate :D
Not to mention her amazing intonations
I only speak 4 languages I’d love to learn more but I don’t think 20 is going to happen
bro imma smack u “only 4”
john smith facts
right this girl is awesome. also what languages do you speak?
john smith *laughs in European*
I speak 4 languages aswell but I'm learning a fifth one
One thing for sure! Go ahead, you can definitely reach it your goals!! Good luck.
Everyone is like "she ain't fluent yet in this or that language... But still very impressive she speaks so Many"...
IT IS FREAKING CONFUSING TO SPEAK MANY LANGUAGES.... you start to mix up the languages... Forget a word. But remember it in another language... Switching as fast as she does is WOWWW..
ALSO the main thing about learning a language is using it. It is the fastest way to learn!! But when the hell do you think she has time to learn 20 languages that well?
Yeah she was quite nervous in the video, and didnt show much f some languages, I can probably say she is fluent is like 5 language
@@tteokmochiii I speak 2 languages very fluent (english and dutch), I'm basic fluent in french, like, I can help myself, I understand more than I can speak... and I understand speak some german (bc it's similar to dutch).... still I mix up these 4 languages -.- mostly english and dutch...I get a blackout on words and know them in another language...;
it can get very confusing!
Same with me, sometimes I think in some Japanese and I just forget the word "Konnichiwa" exists and I spend like 5 minutes trying to think of the word of how to say hello.
_One-Blue-Moon_ I felt that
italian english swedish and french are the ones i can speak.. i lost my german when i moved to sweden :( imho is better to speak well 2-3 languages than bad 10 or 20.. that’s just me
holy shit her pronunciation on spanish was really good, not perfect, but is better than normal americans
Indeed, I also noticed that. No tiene el acento que tienen los anglosajones normalmente
@@marianromero665 Al principio pensé que sí tenía un acento de Miami, pero se ve que tiene un énfasis venezolano como dice
Yo le he escuchado un acento venezolano pero también italiano, xddd. No se por qué pero muchas palabras sonaba como con esa enfásis que ponen los italianos cuando hablan en español
@@smartwastaken es cierto. Parece una italiana queriendo hablar español
It's clearly her second language. Se le entendió perfectamente todo lo que decía, y eso que yo soy de España y su acento era más de Mexico mezclado con Venezuela.
Her father is like "idk what is going on but I'll smile and pretend I'm ok"
lol
IDJJXIAJSUAA
@@amiradoeseverything6295 AAAAAAAAAAA
😂😂😂😂
Er wurde von Nazis geschlagen, jetzt ist er endlich zurück: ua-cam.com/video/r5CFHL5MbzI/v-deo.html
it is amazing for a 13-year-old girl has such a great talent on studying Chinese
"when I hear you speaking in german, it sounds like you're a native speaker".
Every german: *confused looking*
You‘re right.His german was even better 😂😂😂
There hasn‘t been any Austrian accent it was very hard to listen to her because she couldn‘t even finish a sentence but she can speak german thats for sure
Ihre Aussprache in Deutsch ist grundsätzlich gut, aber sie spricht nicht fließend. Aber Sie muss auch sehr viel überlegen, während sie spricht. Das ist auch schwierig, zwischen so vielen Sprachen zu switchen. Sein Deutsch ist besser ;o)
Aber sie spricht auf jeden Fall verständlich und es ist sehr erstaunlich, dass sie so schnell viele Sprachen gelernt hat.
Her pronunciation in German is generally good, but she is not fluent. But she also has to think a lot as she speaks. It's also difficult to switch between so many languages. His German is better; o)
But she definitely speaks understandably and it is very amazing that she learned so many languages so quickly.
You think German in Austrian accent is confusing? Try listening German in Swiss accent!
@carpe diem chill dude I just think it's funny that he says her German is better than his when it isn't. I'm just trying to say that she has to practice German a bit more to really get fluent. It's just a fact that her German isn't great at the time the video was made.
Wouter: so, how many languages do u spe-
This person: *yes*
She has 3 millions friends
She will continue to maintain herself today with the languages
She has a good brain & enthusiasm in learning foreign languages.
Im an idiot
As a German i would never think that she is from Austria never mind from Germany but she is able to do some smalltalk in 21 language at the age of 13 that is impressive!
Stimmt, sie stoppt die ganze Zeit und denkt nach aber ich finde es trotzdem voll geil das sie so viele Sprachen kann 😀🔥🇩🇪
das kannst mit lernen ah net erreichen in dem alter
Ich find auch, dass es jetzt nicht perfekt ist, aber man kann sie verstehen und sie machts ziemlich gut also ja....
+1!
At 19:06 she says "Ich kann sprechen Hochdeutsch" and that is neither Austrian nor German, its simply wrong and typically the wrong order or words like english people do, the correct form is "Ich kann Hochdeutsch sprechen". And the accent is clearly a strong american accent. But anyway, astonishing, but its by far not "Hochdeutsch" and as well not "Austrian",
@@rhalleballe lol... todays 90% austran and german ppl talk this way 😁 maybe she just nervous. its a kid
The dad: How many languages do you wanna learn?
The kid: yes
Me: how many times will you ripp of this joke?
Joana Banks: yes
@@Quatzelcoatl how stupid are you?
@NR YES
*_Uvuvwevwevwe onyetievwewe uvwemubwen ossas_*
N R 🙈💀💀
Amazing girl !! I start before 20 years working a nurse . So i meet diffrent people from other nationality working with me . Day after day , i start understand and talking their languages !
So the secert of learning other languages is to have other freinds from other countries .
But this girl amazing , she talked and writting woow ❤
I'm Spanish, and she really nailed the accent, she is really impressive and she is so talented. Just.. without words.
Definitely impressed with the accent. She speaks the Spanish much better than the guy. Her Spanish is years ahead of his. His Spanish sounds like the equivalent of what is taught here in the U.S. Spanish classes. I don't think his goal is complete fluency or native level. Maybe more like, "as long as I get words out that are placed correctly in a sentence, they'll understand me".
As a Spanish speaker her accent is the best part, she still needs pronunciation work. She makes the same common mistakes and less common ones. But she is still very impressive
Her Russian and Ukrainian are terrible. I do not understand anything. But still much better than my Hindi, Vietnamese or Japanese
She needs to improve but your right
She actually speak most of the languages better than him😂😂
Yes except indonesia and thai she just saying 3 - 4 words only
His german was a million times better
his Ukrainian is a bit better as well
@@rasyhabintanggautama also French , the men french was better
str ardana exept french
Her Japanese is still in progress,like lower-intermediate though, it's utterly impressive to hear from 13-year-old who simultaneously speak 20 languages.
That's rlly true
I envy this person a lot O_O I'm 14 but I can only speak English, Chinese, Japanese, a little Korean, and Spanish, but I want to be able to speak a lot more. My native language is Chinese + English from a very young age, and I'm mostly interested in Sino-Xenic/Asian languages, because I like the history behind it & I like 漢字 etymology in general. I just like the culture of the Sinosphere >_
Her spanish too
Her chinese too
@@LittleWhole only five what loser ..... i speak 4 at 28yo...
Dad must b proud of such an intelligent child. Her IQ level surpasses artificial intelligence!!.Little girl, plz include Urdu in your repertoire of languages. It is very near to Hindi and Arabic , spoken and understood by a huge segment of world population.
She could grow up to be a very sought after interpreter...like in the American Embassy or something big! Lots of respect.
we'll see
With her brain power it would be a waste to become a low paid interpreter.
You can clearly see on her face that she is very smart.
She knows 20 languages! Who cares if one or two is not that good.
People just can’t give someone credit.
I speak 20 languages if you count being able to speak very poorly. It's really not that hard, let's be real here. 3 years of work and you'll be on your way. Monolingual anglophones always seem to be impressed by anyone who speaks more than 1 language.
@@darkgreninja8349 Wow! You can speak 20 languages
@@Trollmeister-nm9es @Trollmeister23 And I guess your reaction shows why your nick is trollmeister. Why dont you post your own video showing how fantastic you are in these languages? Otherwhise shut up.
@@Trollmeister-nm9es ^ exactly this.
Monolingual anglophones will be impressed by any claim to "know a language". Fluency in a language is not a joke or easy task, it takes years to get remotely closet to fluent.
If she just claimed to "know some stuff in 20 languages", I don't think anyone would disagree, but of course no one would watch that video.
I think when she’s old enough to travel abroad, she’ll be able to pick up the accents and street lingo and be able to hold a real conversation but other than that, she’s taking a step in the right direction for sure.
Yeah, if she just was put into a situation where she could only speak that language, she would pick it up super quick.
Indrukwekkend! Deze meid heeft een heel bijzondere gave. Ik ben al blij met 4 talen
She mixed Portuguese with Spanish, but it's really nice seeing such a young girl speaking so many languages :))
There's so many words in Portuguese that sounds Spanish but she didn't mix them both. I learned Portuguese because of the 🎶 music. I believe that the music in both languages(Spanish-Portugese)facilitate learning either language. Also I see so much Asian cinemas (martials arts) that I know which language is( Japanese,Mandarin,Cantonese,Korean). I'm learning Hebrew right now. Shalom chavarim and Mischpacha.🤗😄
@@robertobonano7828 Actually she did, Portuguese is my mother language and she said some words that don't exist in Portuguese.
@@helenasoaresforesti7293 Thanks. Most of my Portuguese I learned thru music and some Brazilian friends, I'm not fluent. But my Spanish language helps learning it faster. Some words sounds very similar in Spanish and Portuguese but lots are different. Thanks again.🤗😉
Roberto Bonano you’re welcome, it’s cool that you’re learning Portuguese
Portuñol
When I was 13 I could barely speak in my own language (spanish). Even if she isn't fluent in every language, it's still impressive how she can switch so quickly between languages and understand them all. I hope she keeps getting better and has a bright future ahead of her.
@@nitink.a567 Talking fluently is difficult by itself in any language, as well as writing well. Language is difficult to master, is like an art, you need a lot of practise and field work to be good at it. Just because you can articulate a complete sentence doesn't mean you're fluent. Fluency is much more, fluency is being able to have a whole conversation on any matter without hersitating too much or making basic mistakes. For instance, if you tell me you're fluent in English, I would assume you're delusional, because you don't know the difference between "your" and "you're". Keep practising!
Samee
Do u speak spanish now?
I am 13 years old like her and I can just speak two languages lol
@@manuelfg2902 a bit
I'm 19 and only speak 4 languages. She has me beat by far😅
I speak English, Spanish, Japanese, and Korean❤
Wooo cool
I love this girl and her passion. She looks so happy and excited communicating in those languages. For sure, years by now, she would be speaking fluently in multiple languages.