How many languages can you speak?

how many languages do you speak Polish

English German and uh I started learning

Spanish and French so I speak Korean as

my native tongue and I also speak

English and Japanese French Spanish and

Chinese I'm language Sim I'm a YouTuber

from the United States oh I've studied

probably 20 but um in terms of how I'm

ones I'm actually good I'm maybe about

five I've got around C I believe on my

badge Japanese English Spanish katalan

Ukrainian Russian Portuguese FR French

Italian polish and a cck well that's a

great question it all depends on what's

your definition of speaking I believe

that speaking is being to express

yourself in every situation that you

find yourself in so if we talk about

speaking I say that

nine apart from English and Filipino

which is part of our school system I

studied eight which I've dained to put

here not so much Bain but but I've also

studied i' so other language I've not

put here like Korean in Indonesian right

now I'm studying Hungarian because I

live in Hungary what your motivation to

What is your motivation to learn many languages?

learn many languages stalk to people and

also to travel and whenever I travel I

want to talk the language of the place

here because why not because there are

so many languages in the world that I

don't know yet and I just wanted to

understand people when they talk in a

different language sort of expanding my

territory I like Tai I think it's really

challenging and I like it for that I

like the writing system it's really

complex but also logical uh which I

enjoy how it's logic it's it's

systematic once you learn the system I

think it's more systematic than the

English alphabet can you explain this

more to me I mean yeah if you know the

rules whenever you see a combination of

vowel consonant and tone marker it very

consistently produces the same sound

whereas English there's many different

ways to spend spell all the different

vowel sounds and many different ways to

write the different con sounds but In

tha it's when you have a group of

letters it's very consistently makes the

same sound how long do you take you to

study Thai I learned I was in shangai

for like probably 6 years and very knew

very basic just farang just could order

cot like that and then I a took one-year

course at the University and that shot(cơ hội)

me way high because like I had a lot oflike listening practice in and and heard

it a lot and so it took me probably a

year of like concentrated study to be

able to read it I saw some

demonstrations of the Ling app and I

think it would be really helpful for

learning Thai you have to learn Thai

because Thai people are the chillest and

the nicest people and Thailand's the

best country in the world and I also

realized that English is obsolete in

many situations especially when you find

yourself abroad and just people look at

you differently what is your preferred

Polyglot’s learning language methods

method of learning languages that's a

good question just don't think too much

about the meod spend as much time as

possible with the language you're

learning if if you spend enough time you

will find various ways that that'll work

but for example in your case how how did

you spend your time with your languages

first at first I try to understand the

sounds of the language so that I don't

like say the wrong things when I'm you

know thinking that I'm saying the right

things yeah and understand pronunciation

sounds and also buy as many books as

possible like I buy every book that's

available on the language in my country

whenever I start learning a new language

and then go through quickly grammar like

really quickly over like 3 days just

skim through okay okay this is how it

works so that I don't have a lot of fear

and then slowly learn the basics are you

doing something related to are you

student or I teach the Korean language I

have my own company and brand talk to me

in Korean is the brand man and I've been

doing it for 15 years that's cool and

okay so it's easier for you to C

between learning languages and your jobs

yes and also I started teaching foran

because I love learning languages and

the only language that I understand

completely 100% is of course my mother

tongue and being a language learner

myself helps me be a good teacher or

instructor or uh entrepreneur I like

immersing embarassing the language I try

to to uh to speak my target target

language as soon as possible well I'm a

strong believer that the most important

thing is input I'm going to be for

instance my Swedish uh my latest

language one could say I listened just

to podcast I would watch things uh I

would watch every I would just consume

everything that is I could find what I

was within my reach for three months I

came to polyl Gathering I had my first

conversation Swedish and then the a

native swed said that I speak so well

that I should have put my Swedish on cev

actually so that's what that might be

one of the best compliments I've ever

received really have one favorite one

but it's it's generally motivation based

so whatever I enjoy for example

listening to music in foreign languages

watching films uh yeah is something that

really motivates me yeah do you think

that learning gr grammar at the

beginning is very important I would say

it hugely depends on the person one of

the most interesting Parts about coming

to these kinds of events is that you see

people who learned languages in so many

different ways I personally wouldn't

learn grammar right at the start of a

language because it doesn't excite me

that much I'm very much one of those who

believes in speaking right from the

beginning of Learning a language but

then how can you find the people to

practice the language without learning

the grammar yeah I think so I believe

especially if you know similar languages

you can invive the grammar without

actually formally learning the rules and

I believe that that method can work

because it's more interesting to people

uh rather than just pouring over

textbooks and literally learning each

grammar rule one by one really just

through natural watching YouTube videos

that's kind of all I do is watch YouTube

videos listen to podcast and I'm also a

fan of pimsler yeah yeah is that also

the reason why you decided to make your

old YouTube video yeah for sure I just

yeah of course and I just I love

languages so I had to share that that

humor with the world but I um I I also

love talking on Discord that's like my

huge cheat code I speak so much on

Discord it's a perfect way to talk to

people well I love to learn languages by

speaking with native speakers uh so uh

to each language that I learn I I have

one native person that I can talk to in

this language so if I just begin with a

new language I focus more on active

study I try to do that every day if

possible so I I really sit down and

study the language I try to improve it

actively when I get to a higher level

maybe intermediate level I try to

incorporate it in 2 byday Da life and so

I would do activities that I would

normally do in a different language for

example I would cook something in

Italian with an Italian recipe I would

read an article in French uh mixp paper

own the own exposure and practicing is

actually listening to music and not just

listening passively but absorbing the

words and if there's something I don't

understand I have to look that up and

then over time of doing that a lot I

just start to sometimes have

conversations with myself inside my own

head so you ask and you answer at the

same time yes and then you have a

full-time job and uh so how can you

manage to learn languages while you

How to study languages as a busy person

doing your job yeah at least even if

you're are busy you can find 5 10

minutes every day somehow before you

sleep after you wake up somehow then

sometime people say like oh I don't have

much time to study languages but like

actually like you can find out somehow

they think you have lunch break you have

dinner break somehow right so 5 minutes

10 minutes every day studying every day

is like really important I would say and

how have learning languages changed you

I can get to know much more people in

How has learning languages changed you?

all over the world I would say I can

accept the cultural difference Much More

Much More I would say mean I don't

really get frustrated because of

cultural difference can you give an

example about that in Japanese 1 minute

means 1 minute but in English or other

language 1 minute 1 second actually it

doesn't mean like exactly one minute or

one I mean one second as you guys know

it means like wait a second wait a wait

a bit right actually like the story I I

when I moved to when I moved to United

States one of my I mean plat mate told

me like my roommate told me yoski one

second I waited one for one second I

said John he like I said your one second

yoski yeah I waited one second what's

wrong call me Japanese people it changed

everything I mean back in the day I was

just a boring engineer now I'm a

language YouTuber at an amazing language

event Everything Has Changed I'm in the

Czech Republic do you think that your

identity changed when you speak

different languages yes for sure I'm a

different person completely my voice

changes so dramatically and my

personality so different as well I think

I'm really pretentious in French I'm a

little arrogant in Russian I'm a little

more uh I'm a little more like tough and

and rough and stuff my

voice very much I have multiple

personalities now in a good

way can you name those personalities I I

didn't name them I should so the Korean

speaking Hano and the English speaking

Hano the Japanese speaking Hano they are

all not identical like they are slightly

different English the most direct Korean

Less Direct Japanese almost not direct

at all can you get an an example for

that um so in English if I need

somebody's help I will say you need to

help me I'll say that in Korean I'll

say which just like can you help me and

then in Japanese you would say things

like

this SK like I am thinking that I would

like to be helped by you um that's yeah

that's very very different people say

like like I am thinking but and then

they don't even finish the sentence

because they are being as indirect as

possible so that's something that I

picked up thank you so much yep no

problem thank you so much thanks