Mexican Polyglot Speaks 11 Languages

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Uploaded by on May 10, 2011

Mexican polyglot speaks English, Spanish, Polish, French, Catalan, Romanian, Portuguese, German, Dutch, Latin & Italian. I hope this video inspires others to study languages and learn about other cultures. Thanks for watching!

Here is the amount of time I had been speaking each language at the time I made the video; English-21 yrs, Polish-2 yrs, French-10 yrs, Catalan-3 yrs, Romanian-4 yrs, Portuguese-3 yrs, German-4 yrs, Dutch-2 months, Latin-4 months, Italian-11 yrs.

Spanish is my native language and I learned English as a child when I moved to the United States. I remained bilingual until high school where I learned Italian and French. Then in college I took classes to learn Polish, German, Portuguese & Catalan. I only took one course for each language and afterwards I continued studying on my own with the help of friends that were native speakers of each language. During college I also taught myself Romanian by listening to music. I translated song lyrics and I started forming my own original sentences based on the structures I heard in the songs. Later on I also used a grammar book to learn full conjugations of all the different verbs. I studied Romanian for a year before I finally had a chance to practice it with native Romanian speakers. Besides Romanian, only Latin & Dutch have also been entirely self-taught with the help of music and literature.

*I recently arrived Mexico where I am currently studying Nahuatl.
*Very soon I would also like to learn Russian, modern Greek & Swedish.
*Languages on my wish list are Chinese, Japanese & Arabic.

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  • do speak Nahuatl?

  • lol imagine having closed caption for this video

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  • este muchacho es una inspiracion

  • Hello!How did you learn polish?

    Ciao!Come hai imparato polacco?

  • Aaaaaah mis respetos para tí amigo compatriota, soy tabasqueño y me encantan los idiomas, aunque acepto que con trabajo y lograría hablar en inglés, pero conozco vocabulario y pronunciación del inglés, francés, italiano, alemán y portugués (americano y europeo), ala pero tú eres un master, mira que hablar 11 idiomas, tanto que has de haber viajado y conocer países. Un gran saludo desde el sureste mexicano, sigue así amigo.

  • genial!!1 yo tambien quiero hablar muchos idiomas

  • neta... admirable ver esto, yo no conosco ni el español completo..esto me deja impresionado.! felicidades paisano mexicano.! eres un orgullo!

  • sin palabbras hermano solo te entendi en tres idomas ingles frances y español!!!

  • OMG!!! soy tu faaaan!!!!! ser poliglota o una hiperpoliglota es mi sueñooooooo, en la universidad estudiare licenciatura en idiomas :3

  • inspiring! 

  • Wow, soy mexicana siempre he vivido en el mismo lugar

    I know english and now study Koreean language,

    Gomawo !!!!

    Felicidades personas como tu inspiran a otros que comenzamos ^^

  • Wow me encantan los idiomas estudio por mi cuenta pero en el frances si e tenido problemas.! Y el italiano si es mas facil. Pero mis respetos para ti.!

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