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  • i could learn icelandic in a week

  • I wonder if he had known any other language, possibly a Germanic one, before starting to learn Icelandic. Because if he did, it's not such an impossible task if you are in perfect conditions (in the target country with a teacher spending all your time studying).

  • how can you learn a language in a week ??? i tried to learn french at school for 3 years and failed miseably =(

  • How come a English speaker learned Icelandic in a week?????????!!!i can notice a lot of common between Icelandic and Norwegian as well

  • It's funny how the female teacher is an actual linguist(?) or just a teacher of a language, when her English is fucking TERRIBLE.

  • @MrDudeBoiMan Maybe she is a linguist in Icelandic. Dumbass

  • @FalloutNVplayah Doesn't really matter, a linguist should recognize the importance of international adjustment, in terms of being able to make him/herself understood.

    She is clearly failing at that, she's barely making herself through a semi-advanced conversation in English. It's quite embarrassing.

  • @FalloutNVplayah And yeah, nice call out there, me being a "Dumbass". Clearly shows that your weak little mind can't handle a proper discussion without dropping curse words, congratulations. :>

  • @MrDudeBoiMan

    How is it terrible? Just because one's pronunciation is "bad" does not mean that her comprehension and regurgitation of English is sub par.

    -_-

    God is ashamed of you

  • @Noa4h "God is ashamed of you"? Oh dear, no comments.

  • @MrDudeBoiMan

    Her English was fine, dude, I don't think she made a single grammar error. Her accent was based on American English though, maybe that threw you off a bit.

  • @MrDudeBoiMan I'm a native English speaker. No, she's not Shakespeare reincarnated as a lady, but she's totally comprehensible. If you can't understand her, it's probably because you're not familiar with her accent. Not trying to sling mud, but that that seems more probable.

  • @MrDudeBoiMan I'm a linguistic, from an English speaking country. Her English is fine. Also, being a good linguist or language teacher has nothing to do with being able to speak English... The field of linguistics is universal, it's not excusively "English".

  • @lfoo87 You are not a linguist, stop lying over the internet.

  • @MrDudeBoiMan but i am :( i studied applied linguistics at university :> and whether i am linguist or not doesnt change the fact that skills in english do not equate to skills in linguistics or language teaching. have fun trollin'! C:

  • He just took a dump on people trying to learn Icelandic.

  • wow!! he talks really well icelandic he learned all that in one week? wow!! i awnderstanded it all! (i'm icelandic) :)

    flott hjá þér!! :)

  • Massive Autism

  • what is the point of learning icelandic.

  • @29iceskater To learn the roots of english.

  • im icelandic and he spoke icelandic like this: i really think icelandic beutiful. It is great to see icelandic person speak it. so you know its ok. but obviously awesome in just one week.

  • @wowgunni interesting comments, its helpful to see how he sounded to native speakers i.e. a basic, but understandable icelandic. I was in Iceland last year, you have a cool language

  • i lol'd @ 1:03-1:08

  • he speaks it like they speak enlish YA I know

  • > Learning a language in one week?

    Challenge accepted.

  • @IronDreams90 How did it go?

  • @MrNoexcuses

    What a strange coincidence!

    I'm planning to start today.

    I was busy collecting materials and stuff.

    I'll try and learn Swedish.

  • @IronDreams90 Tell me how it goes, good luck!

  • @MrNoexcuses

    Okay, subscribe me or something.

    I'll try my best.

  • @MrNoexcuses Hi!

    I wanted to PM you, but Google decided that It is cool to fuck up You tube.

    I had to miss the last week everything were working against me. But not this week.

    It is 3am will have a decent sleep and I will force myself to use the language.

    I wonder how far I can go.

    

  • @IronDreams90 Lets find out! good luck and let me know how it goes

  • @IronDreams90 du skal bedre lære norsk =), it's been 3 months already =), just doing it myself

  • @norsketroll1 Not bad.

    My schedule stopped me from doing stuff. But not this week.

  • come on bro learn this fucking crazy portuguese from northeastern brazil hahahha

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  • @helga141 Takk! Segið þið 'Þakka þér fyrir?' ég hef mjög gömul bók um íslensku, (heitir hún Icelandic Grammar, Texts, Glossary (skrifaði árið 1949)) því íslenska mín er smá gömul, (og smá vitlaus :P), en ég hef lært góð málfræði frá henni.

  • pretty impressive or on icelandic fjandi gott bara

  • IMPOSSIBRU!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • oh..but come learn romanian in one week!

  • come and learn Hungarian in one week!

  • @0ffp1st3 Soha nem menne neki....

  • @0ffp1st3 Oh lord, Hungarian! Prepare for 20 cases :P

  • 6 weeks?? bullshit!!!

    this video only 6 minutes...

  • cool, American Beauty music:)

  • What is the song at the end?

  • his pronunciation could use a little work, like when he sad "góðan daginn," he pronounced the g... but damn. i've been teaching myself icelandic for almost five years and i could never ever do this. absolutely amazing - a miracle!

  • @KamillaRud Þakka yður fyrir! ég veit enginn sem talar íslensku, svo ég vissi ekki hvort íslenska mín var rétt eða ekki. ég get lesað og skrifað bara vel, en að tala er svo erfitt! Enn ég hef margt að læra... hvað er u.þ.b?

    Takk :)

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  • @spitzndribble ertu að læra íslensku líka? það er mjög erfitt fyrir mig... talar þú bara ensku? ég ætla að búa á íslandi, en íslenska er svo erfitt! en hún er svo falleg líka (eða það er svo fallegt... ég veit ekki). hvað lengi hefur þú verið að læra íslensku? (ég hef verið að læra hana (eða það... ég veit ekki) fyrir 3 og 1/2 mánuði.)

    Sæl/l, Bless, and good luck!

  • @MaskFaceDude Gaur svona góður í Íslensku á u.þ.b. 3 mánuðum O.O

    Ég sé mjög fáar málfræðivillur og það var rétt hjá þér það er hún íslenskan :)

  • This is the most depressing thing in the world to people who are trying to learn Icelandic (like myself).

  • Actually it's not that difficult. I'm able to easily pick up on certain words in there language and there dialect is easy to grasp to me. But of coarse I couldn't learn the whole language in 7 Days!! That's pretty amazing he could do that! :) Russian on the other hand is way more difficult the Icelandic!!

  • BAD accent !!! Icelandic isn't so hard, basics are very similar to english and germanic roots, VERY easy (i'm french and i'm learning it alone) /// This man isn't a genius, just quite clever

  • @aterlvx this guys real skill is with numbers....he see numbers as shapes, colours and textures. A different shape, colour and texture for every number up to 10,000 and therefore can do huge calculations by visualizing moving through a landscape in his mind....also, bear in mind a very high number of autistic people can't even communicate well in they're native languages

  • @venjitsu66 oops, sorry, i didn't write that, it must have been a friend connecting from my computer... anyway it is very interesting to see! thank you for the answer

  • I didnt know Jamie Murdoch spoke Icelandic.

  • i wonder if in the future we understand the brain more and we really do have this in every brain and everyone will have it made activated at birth, the possibility's..

    The school system we have now would be done in 1-3months.. Average normal intelligent person today would be the futures retard if they had problems activating it. Wauw i really wish the soul goes in to another body when you die so ill be here when it happens if it happens. #DeepShit

  • Are all foreign language teacher insane?

  • I'm very sceptical of this video for exaggerating Daniel Tammet's language ability. For example, it's well documented that he studied French and German at school for six or seven years, and got "B" grades in both at his A-Level exams at age 18. Good grades, but hardly exceptional.  The documentary, being sensationalist, doesn't mention this; "Got a B grade in French after seven years" sounds so much less impressive than "Learned Icelandic in seven days".

  • @tijohma

    What you say here is an example of classically specious reasoning. DT's prior grades have nothing to do with this particular learning idiom, this example. They are simply markers for that particular performance. In fact, his prior "Bs" might be a BETTER explanation for why learning via language immersion works better, or produces better results, particularly for him. Pimsleur knew this. But aside, what I take issue with is the very poor logical connection you try to make.

  • very cool!

  • I am so sick of hearing people boast about how difficult and 'impossible' in some contexts their language is and that they have sayings it is impossible to learn, all that in my opinion is bullshit. Yes it IS amazing that this man could learn it in just one week and speak the language rather fluidly, but overall there is no such thing as an impossible or MOST DIFFICULT language, if one has the desire to learn and puts in the effort, then it is an easy language :)

    julianallees 23/08/2011

  • @julianallees

    Not really, no. Some languages are much easier to transition to than others because they follow familiar rules -- e.g., the Romance languages. Other languages break the rules so completely from the one natively being spoken that learning them is especially difficult. There most definitely are differences in difficulty of acquisition among languages.

  • @julianallees why the fuck would you put a time stamp and your name at the end of your comment like it was an important quote in the history of mankind?

    And yes there are languages that are harder than others.

    If you speak a latin language, like spanish, learning italian, portuguese or french is going to be easy.

    If you speak english, learning german is going to be easy.

    But if you speak japanese, learning italian, portuguese, spanish, english or german is going to be a fucking nightmare.

  • I don't see him as gifted. If he is gifted, then everybody else is gifted. Humans have so much potential. Speaking in other tongues in a week is quite fascinating, but I would imagine that he was probably very determined. He had to adapt, so his brain went into "Child mode", the same mode that philosophers use, but for his linguistic skills, rather than his thinking skills.

  • @alexross8 Are you fucking kidding? Have you ever tried learning a language? The guy learned a language, one that is difficult for an English speaker, in a fucking week and spoke it to natives and was able to answer questions. This man is gifted, beyond fucking gifted. I just don't know why you can't see that.

  • @obeytheory

    Well, most of the smartest people don't consider themselves gifted. Stephen Hawking for example, doesn't think he is worthy of being compared to Albert Einstein, even though they are both just as "gifted". It's not a gift, it's human potential. In a sense, he is gifted, because he puts all into learning Icelandic.

  • The woman talks with the hands

  • I saw the whole documentary, and I feel like they misrepresented the guy. He does have awesome memory, but I am positive he didn't LEARN a new language. All he did was memorize a few grammar rules and some vocabulary (impressive, since he only had a week, but still he was working with a tutor all week). The movie made it sound like he was fluent, and all he expressed was his opinion of the language... I would assume it's something he was prepared to answer.

  • @munecabravalola Do you not see that there are people who are just gifted, like this man... he understands a language within a weeks time. Thats incredible, people are taught a language over a years time have trouble understanding others or even speaking the language correctly. Wether or not it was staged or not, you dont believe there are true Savants out there... which is sad for you.

  • @Biginitiald I do know and believe that there are gifted people. And I do think this guy is pretty gifted. I don't believe he is a savant though, and I'm not convinced he learned the language. I think he memorized the language with his incredible memory rather than learned it. I'm disappointed with the filmmakers who sensationalized his ability to learn a language for the sake of documentary's popularity, when it appears to be just memorization.

  • @munecabravalola he learned it, and memorized it. you dont make any sense. you have to memorize words and what they mean. he did learn it...just as such an accelerated rate that your tiny brain doesn't want to accept it's possible

  • @ChrisDowneyMusicI have never met a single person who leaned a language by memorizing words only. Surely, knowing some vocabulary is necessary, but understanding the rules of dynamic interactions of words is far more important in what is called "learning" the language. And, he might have been good enough for the movie, but how much did he retain? I'm not trying to offend the guy, I am only expressing my scepticism towards the claims made in the movie. Thanks for insulting me though ;)

  • @munecabravalola Learning a language to the degree in which you are able to read, write, speak, and listen to it with a high degree on comprehension is so far beyond the realm of simply memorizing vocabulary. The brain simply does not work very efficiently in a strictly recall-only sense.

    The words, phrases, grammar, and mechanics all have to have some sort of deep, almost primal meaning to a speaker for a language to truly be comprehended. It becomes a matter of instinct rather than memory.

  • @Ferrariman601 agree

  • BORK BORK BORK IS SWEDISH YOU MORON FAT AMERICAN!

  • @generrix Bjork is Icelandic

  • @Biginitiald WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN?! BORK BORK BORK is a reference to the swedish chef from the muppets. look below at what roadkillkeene said. he's making a swedish chef comment on an icelandic page. i said BORK, not BJORK. BJORK is awesome and you are all retards for apparently having no idea about anything that goes on on planet earth.

  • @generrix Way to take a joke... lighten up dude, no need to blow a gasket. You have no idea what goes on apparently, cause anyone could have seen the joke i was making. But whatever get pissed at a simple joke.

  • @generrix not to mention if you read his comment, he said Bork, Bork, Bjork... its all jokes you overly sensitive ass.

  • The sound is very important...sure, then have a lesson in front of a geyser.

  • @swashbucklefunk Sound isnt really important.. Im norwegian, and I understand icelandic words just fine either way you pronounce it.

  • @ObLiViOnZThEkIllEr De är inte så svårt och förstå eftersom de är vårat gamla ursprungs språk

  • @Effekt47 Ah, sant. Vanskelig å forstå kasus bruken, når man ikke kan kasusene.

  • Anyone know the documentary title, been looking for this for years now

  • @sevlonewolf The guy's name in the video is Daniel Tammet. Look his name up on wikipedia.

  • Bork, Bork, Bjork

  • This young man is impressive. I've met one Savant in my life...but Daniel is beyond what I have seen!! 

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