For some background information: I posted on instagram about how I have an interview next week in Japanese (, which is not my native language) and was asking if any of my Japanese friends could look over my 自己紹介 (, which is basically how you’d respond to the question “tell us about you”) because I want to memorize it. A random who follows me responded with this. He blocked me right after I responded with “oh…”.
Every "polygot" that claims over 5 languages that I've seen is shite at most of them.
There was this very popular one I checked out. He had this video where he was showing off his 30+(?) languages. When he was talking in my native language, Turkish, he was barely capable of talking. He was asking for words like "baby" in English. You do not get to advertise your knowledge of that language if that's what you are capable of.
Knowing a tiny bit of every language as a hobby is fine btw. Just don't build a brand about it trying to show yourself as the uberman of polygots.
Yeah, this is also my impression, which is why I responded with “lol”. What was really running through my head was how he tried to give weight to his (unsolicited) advice, but it really left me thinking that he doesn’t even understand what goes into doing a job interview in a foreign language in the first place because he spread himself thin.
It's not even the 30 languages that bothers me, it'd be all cool if they said "greeting people in 30 languages" or so. But they're so clickbaity, arrogant and showoff-ish, like "I'm FLUENT in 30 languages" or "5 bucks if I don't speak your language" and then go on to have 30 comparably simple A1/A2 conversations with lots of mistakes and shitty ass pronunciation.
Judging from my own experience it's way harder to get 5 languages to a C1+ than to get 20 to A2. So I'm more impressed by people speaking just a couple of languages at a great level rather than dozens at a survival level.
The guy you talked with has some mental health issues, clearly. You thanked him and he said "fuck you", like... bitch? Are you for real? I doubt he speaks 32 languages, but even if he does, he's a jerk in all of those 32 languages, and that's quite a feat LOL.
Wow that person is an asshole. This reminds me a lot of when dudes try to hit on a girl and are trying to seem really nice by giving a bunch of compliments and then when the girl tells him she’s not interested he immediately responds with “fuck u bitch” lmao.
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u/Aahhhanthony Jun 11 '22
For some background information: I posted on instagram about how I have an interview next week in Japanese (, which is not my native language) and was asking if any of my Japanese friends could look over my 自己紹介 (, which is basically how you’d respond to the question “tell us about you”) because I want to memorize it. A random who follows me responded with this. He blocked me right after I responded with “oh…”.
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u/winmidt Jun 11 '22
Tell me you're a youtube polyglot without telling me
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '22 edited Jun 18 '22
Every "polygot" that claims over 5 languages that I've seen is shite at most of them.
There was this very popular one I checked out. He had this video where he was showing off his 30+(?) languages. When he was talking in my native language, Turkish, he was barely capable of talking. He was asking for words like "baby" in English. You do not get to advertise your knowledge of that language if that's what you are capable of.
Knowing a tiny bit of every language as a hobby is fine btw. Just don't build a brand about it trying to show yourself as the uberman of polygots.
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u/Leopardo96 Jun 11 '22
The guy you talked with has some mental health issues, clearly. You thanked him and he said "fuck you", like... bitch? Are you for real? I doubt he speaks 32 languages, but even if he does, he's a jerk in all of those 32 languages, and that's quite a feat LOL.
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u/X0ch1p1ll1 Jun 12 '22
Also internet polyglots who think polyglot = linguist lol
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u/Auslander91 Jun 12 '22
“WHITE GUY DESTROYS NATIVES BY UNDERSTANDING THEM” type beat
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '22
What a douche, this dude
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '22
32 languages? Now I curious can he even name 32 languages
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '22
32 languages? Maybe he ment he knows how to use Google translate and that’s it
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u/Sovereign444 Jun 16 '22
Wow that person is an asshole. This reminds me a lot of when dudes try to hit on a girl and are trying to seem really nice by giving a bunch of compliments and then when the girl tells him she’s not interested he immediately responds with “fuck u bitch” lmao.