Interview in German with Benny the Irish polyglot

http://www.fluentin3months.com
The first few seconds are in Irish and most of the interview is in German. This was my spoken level after living in Berlin for 4 months.

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[SummerKingdom]

How come you previously couldn't learn any German for 5-6 years but then learned to speak in a much faster time? What did you do differently?

[irishpolyglot]

@SummerKingdom The first time was purely academic, in a very inefficient learning environment (Irish secondary school). The second time I focused on immersion and had friends (and a girlfriend) entirely in German.

[cxkozel]

how old were u when you first started learning languages

[irishpolyglot]

@cxkozel 21. That's when I went to Spain

[daglug1]

what language was being spoken at the beginning?

[irishpolyglot]

@daglug1 Irish (Gaeilge). There is another part of the interview with more Irish I will upload soon. The presenter works for an Irish learning programme and was interviewing me about language learning in general for his site.

[jonmahoney04]

Dude, you German sounds really fluent. I'm happy you made the video. Plus respect points for Benny.

[alexbadfurday]

When I saw the thumbnail I thought the guy in blue was Peter Jackson.

[irishpolyglot]

@Guest1016 Why on earth would I talk about Politics or Literature? [Which you spelled incorrectly by the way, as well as having poor punctuation in your comment Mr nitpicker, so I guess English isn't one of your fluent languages?] I don't talk about these in English. Should I demand that you give me a lecture on quantum physics before I believe your claim to fluency in any language, including your mother tongue? The topic was my language learning experience.

[mechatech70]

@irishpolyglot So if I take German in highschool next year, it will be a waste of time?

[Asgard]

dieses video war sehr interessant und eine inspiration für mich! i hab deutsch für 3 semesters an der uni gelernt und ich konnte das ganze video verstehen! ich brauch nicht die untertitel. ich will mein deutsch verbessern so jetzt weiß ich dass ich mit keinem angst sprechen soll. grüße von alabama!

[Kathilisi]

Hallo Benny! Komm doch einmal nach Österreich! Die Österreichische Sprachmelodie ist viel angenehmer als die der Deutschen! ;-) (Also nicht überall - z.B. in manchen Wiener Bezierken klingt es schrecklich... aber die musst du dir ja nicht aussuchen!)