Ep1Pt1 Polyglot Stu Jay Raj - Multilingual Presentation

"Language Secrets From a Linguistic Junkie"

This is the first of my personal video posts. This episode is divided into 2 Parts / 2 separate clips.

I've tried to answer some of the many questions that have been sent to me in emails and messages since I posted my first clip on Youtube in 2007. I thought to make it interesting, I've tried to choose several different languages to respond to (subtitled in English).

Questions include:
What separates languages - politic or linguistic differences?
What's the history behind some of your languages?
What's the most difficult language?
What are some secrets to learning new languages?
How do I get motivated to learn languages?

I've chosen languages that I'm at different competency levels in - and as you can see, it shows! Some of them I hadn't used for a long time - just putting this clip together was great to get the linguistic juices flowing again in some of my dormant languages.




I also used as a personal challenge for the first time in public Vietnamese. I put this post public to set a bar for myself - so hopefully in a few months time, my Vietnamese will be much more fluent than what you see in this clip. I'll keep you updated on my progress!

Languages that I speak in or about in this episode include:

English
Bahasa Indonesia
Javanese
Bahasa Melayu
Japanese
Chinese - Mandarin
Danish

Category:

Education

Tags:

• language
• linguistics
• motivation
• polyglot
• thai
• mandarin
• chinese
• bahasa
• indonesia
• jawa
• danish
• stuart
• stu
• jay
• raj

[Pelle90]

haha, I can see you have been speaking Danish 10x more than norwegian and Swedish. =D keep up your great work man!! thanks for helping other people with languages as you do!! You are some1 that I admire and one day I will be speaking as many languages as you!! xD

[stujaystujay]

@Pelle90 Hahaha indeed... Danish has definitely had more of a workout! One of my main motivations for making this clip is to show that I'm actually at many different levels for each language. Sone great, some good and some crap:)

[loki2504]

你好！ 我很好奇知道你現在正在學習那一門語言？ 你什麼時候打算學習阿拉伯文與俄文呢？ 謝謝你！

I hope you'll learn french soon ! it's one of my mother tongue. Btw, do you speak Teochew? If so, where did you find books to learn it? I'm a teochew native speaker.

[stujaystujay]

@loki2504 Hi - I'd like to get into both French and Arabic more this year. As far as Teochew, I can understand a lot. I have a lot of books teaching Teochew from Thai. I also have several books in Chinese on a lot of 方言 - including Teochew. You have to hunt for them, but the books are out there.

[Flyswap]

Hey, just watched your vid out of curiosity. You did good, so thumbs up on that one. However, you have one word wrong. Its not "snakker denne sprog", its "snakker dette sprog". A minor detail. A simple danish rule, is to grade the word, putting a end to it. If it ends on et or t, it is "dette", if it ends on en or n, it is "denne". So "Sprog" have Sprog-et", therefore it is "dette". Not criticism, just FYI.

Regards from Denmark

[VanSensei]

Javanese has its own script and writing system. I'd love to see you try it.

[mark95427]

@timmytwotimewho

He's fluent in Thai.

Your writing is quite awkward, timmytwotimewho.

[dhani180]

@Stealthanugrah "dying out"? where the exact place? i don't think so javanese is dying out. Teenagers in Yogyakarta, Sala, Madiun, & ex-Mataram kingdom area still understand & use krama inggil to give respect to the olders.

[julehajuly]

buset keren juga lu

[Dacud]

Wha, you do speak Indonesian very well. I like to hear the switch from the other languages to bahasa.

[Dacud]

Wha, you do speak bahasa very well. I like to the the switch from the other languages to bahasa.

[FandubGirls]

Wow.. you should practice on your norwegian o_O but don't worry

I know that norwegian are a difficult language!

[Chezrocksall]

@Magus9653 I am not Kazakh but I can speak Kazakh. Do you have Skype?

[Stealthanugrah]

I find that awesome that you're learning bhs Jawa. But yes as VanSensei said, I want to see you do some Javanese work. In my opinion, Sundanese sounds prettier and so is the writing script. Sadly Bhs Jawa is dying out. But yeah, Indonesians can understand malays but viceversa. We have our own lingo while for Malays, their slang is the language we use in court and in marriages and church. Haha, we just have to figure out certain rules and we understand.