WOUTER Corduwener is Dutch polyglot with a YouTube channel about learning multiple languages and interacting in those languages with strangers. He explains that “the videos [he] upload[s] are in general about losing fear and building confidence [while practicing the languages he learns].”
Recently, Wouter Corduwemer met Zoran Radiceski, a Macedonian hyperpolyglot who speaks more than 30 languages. In the video above, Wouter and Zoran converse in 15 languages that they have in common; after that, Zoran goes on to practice 6 more languages that Wouter does not understand (yet).
Here is the list of languages featured in this video and the exact times when the two polyglots start conversing in those languages:
- 0:00 English
- 0:16 Spanish
- 1:10 Brazilian Portuguese
- 1:37 Dutch
- 2:11 French
- 2:33 Mandarin
- 3:30 Thai
- 3:42 Russian
- 4:12 Hebrew
- 4:22 Arabic
- 5:01 Tagalog
- 5:38 Korean
- 6:04 Danish
- 7:14 Vietnamese
- 7:30 German
- 9:19 Albanian
- 10:08 Croatian
- 10:49 Macedonian
- 11:20 Greek
- 11:33 Serbian
- 11:59 Bulgarian
How many languages do you speak? Would you like to be a polyglot? Let us know be leaving a comment. (via Matador Network)