Stu Jay Raj - Polyglot Speaks over 15 Languages on Joh Jai

[elvein1]

What did you use to learn Sanskrit?

My heart aches for me to know this language.

Please:)

[stujaystujay]

@elvein1 I have a nice stash of learn Sanskrit books - about half of them in English. The other good ones are written in Thai, Indonesian and Hindi. Many students of Sanskrit in other places have passed on different Sanskrit learning materials that they've picked up from Universities around the world.

[Kwaniichan]

hmmm... i can speak, read and write 6 languages... long way to go.... XD

[Kwaniichan]

waaaah.... :O his thai is so good!! :O:O c 

[AnanyaVilas]

Oh wow..ure such a role model! I live in Thailand and I'm Indian too..Not half Aussie thou..but we study in international school so English is almost native to us. My grandfather spoke 9 languages...Sadly I never had a chance to learn much from him while he was alive...but he is still my encouragement. :)

I'm learning my 6th language (Spanish) now and I think I should consider adding Burmese to the the list as we also have a Burmese worker at home.

[stujaystujay]

@AnanyaVilas That's brilliant. Burmese shouldn't be too hard for you - the same base sound system as Indian languages and the grammar is amazingly simple and logical. If you go to Chula bookstore, you will find a great book in Thai - about A4 size, yellow / creamy coloured cover with red writing ภาษาพม่า. One of the best books I've found so far to learn Burmese. Would be great to chat when I'm in town.

[aryowailangitoyo97]

awesome!

[stujaystujay]

@aryowailangitoyo97 thanks

[yongloud]

Is Hungarian in your list? Its beautiful? I'm learning on my own with the help of some hungarian friends now. Really interesting...

[stujaystujay]

@yongloud I would love to add Hungarian to these :)

[YouStoleMyTube]

The interviewer on the right was just a bitch... I want to slap him.

[beauvoir1949]

indonesian and malay, should be considered one language with two different accents. urdu and hindi, should also be considered one language except for having different scripts. so he can only speak 13 languages.

[pepperrgirl]

Simply brilliant, Makes me want to practice more.

[MizzKKLive]

Amazing!

[Codylangaugesblog]

deaf and dumb, LOL

[harajuku89eriotto]

I'm studying Linguistics at UQ with Russian and Japanese. I can speak English, Japanese and Venetian really well, and I've studied German, Icelandic, Mandarin, Czech, Slovene, Italian, Spanish, French, Dutch and Afrikaans to different levels.  Considering I'm born and bred in Australia, I'm proud of what I could force my brain to accomplish... But you are amazing man. Seriously.

[dolunaydainsanolan]

Hey what about Turkish? :)

[dm1085]

@dolunaydainsanolan HAYR KANKA !

[ariesram74]

I am amazed he speaks any Karen

[stujaystujay]

Karen isn't fluent by any stretch yet - but can communicate in it... thanks to our maids / nanny. They speak Pwo. The best book I've found on both Pwo and Sgaw are actually all in Japanese - nevertheless, they're pretty decent.

[naldchow]

Here is Nald from Hong Kong. I also learnt lot of languages from around the world. Danish and Norweigian and Swedish are almost the same, same for Bahasa Indonesia vs Malay. I think you should take seriously the suggestion from other youtuber and try French.

[cezarhted]

Esse é o cara...that´s the man. however .Portuguese would be a bit tough for him to learn , i believe! he really transalate it fine in Spanish, as far as i concerened.

[silentstarz16]

您好! 我叫Nathalie ... 我的中文名字是可薇. 今年我是20歲. 我住在紐約. 我的中文不是很流利但我確定努力進步. 最好的是能够講流利的中文. 我希望這夢能成真一天. :) It was great to see your video!

[stujaystujay]

謝謝！ 很高興認識你可薇 :)

[Nejiboud]

Indian speaking Thai! Very impressive!

[ConteVilas]

Why French and francophones are so jealous of other languages?

[xuansguy]

Stu Jay Raj is my hero...  : )

[imaimashii1]

The dude speaks 23 languages but doesn't speak french. errrrr

[Dream23fb]

French is only useful in France.

[odino2009]

Are u kidding me? try to read a little more about ALL the countries where you can speak french, belgium, canada, monaco, etc, etc, etc.... Le français c'est une langue très jolie et très interessant... saluts.. desde venezuela.. jeje

[firerook]

French is a official language in 29 countries.

[theoriginalmcsquare]

french, the third most spoken indo european language after english and spanish in the world??

[OdiProfanis]

@theoriginalmcsquare

Nope. Russian is the third. Check wikipedia.

[OdiProfanis]

@theoriginalmcsquare

Nope. Russian is the third.

[mrlanguageguy]

@Dream23fb have you ever heard of canada? 1/3 of us speak french. and a LOT of ppl in africa speak french, not to mention a lot of europe.

[tumsabai1]

@mrlanguageguy

I don't beleive its quite 1/3 of the population of Canada

that speaks French. And yes I have heard of Canada.

[Keesmeenek]

Some where complaining about how the interviewer said "sign languag is a language for the deaf and DUMB" DUMB means one who can't speak ppl....¬¬

[rotx3]

wirta022 just clarifying that u no by dumb he meant unable to speak not stupid or anything

[1livingdeadgrl]

here i thought i was special with 3 ( well learning russian - my third ) and hopefully #4 with shoshonee indian . i feel humbled by you and other polyglots of the world. its a gift.

[happydreamfreak]

,amazing! I adore people who know this many languages! They must be completely hardworking.

[wirta022]

Did that interviewer seriously just call sign language a language "for the deaf and dumb"???!! ? Not cool. NOT COOL!

[sasmith14]

Of course sign language is a language for dumb people. How do you think dumb people communicate - writing everything down ??!

[DrShmeliekhat]

Yeah deaf, or dumb people.

[garlandsau]

Perhaps political correctness is not present in Asia.

[SCHneiDen777]

haha. political correctness is DEFINITELY not present where I was in Asia. There languages are sometimes not very euphonizable. A lot of the times very blunt.

[zorksvik]

dumb is a not-to-common word used for people who, for whatever reason, cannot make the sounds necessary for speech. It is not meant derogatorily (thought it most likely was originally), but I don't know if there is now a more politically correct word for people who cannot speak.

[heydeli1]

Dude, why havent you learned turkish..?

[monobrowperson]

What the hell? Morse Code isn't even a language!

I guess I am a polyglot then since I can speak Pig Latin and Morse Code. LOL!

[ethan199303]

he didn't really demenstrate enough

[FatPizza56]

proud to call myself Aussie, after watching this

[stujaystujay]

Oh Yeah!... I forgot to add Strine to the list ;)

[stujaystujay]

Thanks for your constructive criticism :)

[braddockrd]

This guy is either a very smart man or a charlatan. I lean towards the latter. He has learned to speak the very basics of some languages and not too well. It is very easy to impress a group of people by blabbering a few words in each language, but fluency is a very different thing. Evidently, he is quite full of himself and quite arrogant, as the self interviews show. He is a business man and I am not impressed. I have seen waiters in southern Europe speak 5 or 6 languages with the customers.

[Ntwadumela1]

I agree with you 100%

[onotheo]

How are you sure of that? Do you speak some and/or all of the languages he speaks or asked people who speak them? From his videos I am certain he speaks at least 2 languages fluently, because those are the ones I'm familiar with. Also, how certain are you that he only speaks the very basic of those some languages?

[koreankayagum]

Are you out of your mind? Is your Thai so good that you could go on a TV show and answer questions coming at you rapid fire? How is he just "speaking the basics" of Thai? As you can see, he's not just saying "I'm hungry" and "Thank you." He's making some fairly complex statements. How many languages do you speak, by the way?

[brihna]

Wow!

And I thought I was a polyglot! I taught myself french fluently in less than a year

[ugosughi]

Veramente interessante, mi piacerebbe avere il tempo per studiare tutte le lingue del mondo.

[greatdex1]

한국어는 어느정도..? ^^

[stujaystujay]

하이루 ! 메시지를 감사합니다 :) I wouldn't say I speak Korean. Actually, Korea is one country that I travel to reasonably regularly and feel like a duck out of water. I can read Hangul and taught myself to type it years ago. I can also recognise where many of the non 'uri mal' words have come from in Middle Chinese - so understand a lot of signs etc. I would definitely like to spend more time learning Korean.

[greatdex1]

Interesting, you must have spent some time on korean internet too since 하이"루" can't be seen except on the internet.. you are the man of inspiration!! :D

[stujaystujay]

I had a couple of very savvy Korean mentors :)

[pimthong]

You are amazing!!

[AndMyOpinionCounts]

I speak fluent dog and cat and I'm working on shark.

[davidgararay]

@AndMyOpinionCounts im fluent in shark

[stujaystujay]

@davidgararay Speaking fluent shark - now THAT's a talent! :)

[videobenji]

Stu!! Write a book or produce a language learning course with your methods... give the world what your grandfather imparted to you! :)

that's an order.

[utyaiu]

an order LOL

yaya, agree

go for publishing a book, Stu^_^

surely many people are desperate for it @@

[markimark03]

I think you are amazing! I've been considering becoming an interpreter when I graduate, and you have made my mind up, what an inspiration!

[MepOmg]

Om du vill lära dig något svårt pröva isländska, ganska imponerande att du kan så många språk egentligen. :>

[simpsons225]

You know, you should try learning Danish. I've heard it's like one of the hardest languages but I wouldn't know 'cause it's my native language lol.

[stujaystujay]

jeg taler dansk :)

[simpsons225]

Lyder imponerende.. Men hvor meget dansk kan du? Kun små enkelte sætninger eller hvad??

[stujaystujay]

Da jeg var paa skolen vi havde mange udveksling studenter fra skandinavisk lander - Danmark, Norge, Sverige - og nogle venner som har blevet udveksling studenter pa danmark. Vi alle talede paa skandinaviske sproger hindanden :)

[simpsons225]

That's very nice. There are a lot of major grammatical errors but it's understandable.

[stujaystujay]

:) ... it's definitely been a while. I'd love to get back into my scandinavian languages again.

[Slivarci]

oh I ve heard Danish is one of the easiest languages. right after Spanish, I would say :)

[ElizabethxPete]

@Slivarci danish is one of the hardest languages, I speak it .

[Jiveness]

So you could learn similar languages very quickly, for example, German, because of similarities in Swedish and Danish language, and because of the techniques you use to memorize meanings?

[Querido17]

Don't you speak Portuguese?

[stujaystujay]

Never been in a situation that I've had to really use it. Lately, I've gone through the first Pimsleur series and a few other books in Portuguese - it's a matter of putting my situation that would make me use it now.

[DrewJ16]

I really want to learn Chinese (Cantonese) and Arabic. How did you learn it? Any tips and advice?

[HkTheHitman]

please learn french!!

[tumsabai1]

@HkTheHitman

What the fuck!!  Excuse my French.

[poliglotta80]

Stuart Jay Raj sei tutti noi!:)

[zimmermann10]

it`s a fake!

[andromeda03]

fuck you!

[sp1r1c0m]

english, spanish, mandarin, armenian

in that order

[Chempatty]

How on earth did you pick all those languages up? I just get mixed up between the few that I do know.

[minhvo1]

Stujaystujay,you are amazing!!!

[pelizete]

How come they did not bring people from different languages to speka with him???????

[stujaystujay]

:) ... u know what they say about snakes and indians!

[sleepmaster]

the guy said deaf and dumb language ! deaf poeple are not dumb !

[doublehalf]

He wasn't saying that deaf people are stupid. "Dumb" also means unable to speak.

[SaburoOkita]

I think what sleepmaster meant was

There are deaf people who can speak, but can't hear. Most probably those unfortunate people lost their hearings in accidents or something akin.

[Abrfitch1892]

why doesn't he speak french? or german?

[dowling1981]

abr - why should he?

[TakadaLotus]

Exactly, this boy could learn French or German in a matter of weeks, and he speaks Swedish.

[Qcumber]

So far I only hear him speak Thai.

[cyrochan]

he talked to me :) I don't believe :D

[andromeda03]

he talked to me too!!! and i was screaming all day long!!

[aroundtheworls]

Need a very good memory to be able to speak so many languages. As soon as I started learning Thai my Japanese went out the window. I can only keep ability with practice otherwise it fades away. 15 language speaking ability... wow!

[jeminijem1]

Looks more like an infomercial than a real show.

[dannyjam]

not fair! and he gets to be fit

[crimsonvermilion]

fucking insane

[andromeda03]

shut ur mouth modafacka

[EuphrasieF]

Morse code is not a 'language'. It's an alphabet at most. And 'sign language' is too vague - there are many forms of sign language, which are often mutually incomprehensible.

[cranberrysherbet]

He explains in the video that he knows Signed English and Auslan.

[andromeda03]

Realmente asombroso pero prefiero a Ziad Fazah, el es mucho mejor que Stuart

[andromeda03]

Retiro lo dicho, es mejor stuart

[mrlanguageguy]

@andromeda03 he mirado un video donde Fazah debía hablarles a personas que hablaron unos idiomas que él "habla" y muchas han dicho que no puede verdaderamente hablar el idioma. Por ejemplo, el chino dijo que pareció que Fazah no habló nada de chino... No sé si yo diría que él es mejor que Raj.

[jerrykim2]

dang that's some crazy stuff