 Peace be upon you all, how are you all? I hope you are all well. I hope everyone is doing well. I hope you are all well and I hope you are all well. So today guys, I want to explain you guys how I became a polyglot and how I became fluent in five different languages which is the definition of a polyglot. A polyglot is someone who speaks... It was at this moment that he knew. Not that he didn't know the definition of polyglot. So here it is guys, a polyglot is someone who speaks several languages. So I feel as if I'm fluent at all the languages I speak and that's a pride that I take just because it's been a blessing from Allah and it has helped me a lot throughout my life. So inshallah today what I'm going to do and we're going to see and we are going to see from this video as well from how many languages does the people who views the video speak. So if you guys speak the language that I'm about to speak in, which is not my language, I will... I need you guys to rate my level and skills in that particular language. So the five languages that I speak that I'm fluent at is first one, mother tongue, Catalan from Catalonia where Barcelona is at. So northeast of Spain, that's where Catalonia is at and we speak a language and some people might argue that it's not a language, but it is a language because Spanish people, they don't understand Catalonian even though Catalonians, we understand Spanish people. So this is how I speak Catalan and speak Catalan in a normal way because I was born in Barcelona and I speak Catalan with my mother, I speak Catalan with my wife, I speak Catalan with my sisters and many people in my family and in general I speak Catalan because it's my first language. So that's the first language. The second language guys is Spanish. Like I said, some people argue that Spanish in Catalonia is the same language, but it's not. The clear cut proof is that Spanish people don't understand Catalan. So that's the clear cut proof. So in terms of Spanish, this is how I speak Spanish. I speak Spanish in a normal way because I grew up in Barcelona. Spanish is a language that you have to learn yes or yes in school, you learn it on the street, and the truth is that Catalan I spoke more in school growing up than Spanish. And in Catalonia, most of the schools learn Catalan, but students in general only because there is a lot of multiculturalism, they speak Spanish almost all. But that's Spanish. And I need you guys to, if you guys speak Catalan or Spanish, I need you guys to rate my skills in every language. So now we're going to go into the third one. The third one that I've learned, it was French. Ok, so French. I don't know French in a way, I would say as a voice sometimes, and a little bit of Spanish. And the reason for that is because when I was 14 years old, I went to Paris, I lived in Oberwille. If you know Paris, Oberwille, Malawi, all that, I went to school, I went to Gabriel Péry, to, what was that? The corona, I don't even remember what it was. What was the metro stop? It was the last metro stop on the pink line, I think, I don't remember anymore. After 4 trains, 3 or 4 stops after 4 trains, I don't remember. But anyway, I learned French there, in the streets, in school. I was 14 years old, so I think my French is very poor. When we talk about vocabulary, I can't speak in a eloquent way French. I don't know more, like, come on brother, come on, you see, like, street French. So here it is, if you guys speak French, rate my French. Now the third language that I learned throughout my life, it was English. So English, it was kind of like very gradual, gradually. And it wasn't, I didn't really attack English and I have never really learned English in a formal way. Because it was just part of, first of all, it was a subject in school, from little, like from young in school in Catalonia, since I was 3 or 4, whatever it was. So obviously you learn how to speak, you know, normal English, like, hello, my name is, the numbers, the ABCDs and whatnot. And I remember that when I got married, I was 18 or 19, and I got married to a woman that speaks English. But yeah, my wife, me and my wife speak English. She's native English speaker. So that gave me a lot of, you know, skills or, you know, it improved my English basically, just because we've been married for 7 years. So I mean, if you don't get better in 7 years, then I don't know. But I will say as well that I did benefit a lot just from young. Before I started practicing whatnot, I was really involved into just the hip-hop culture and just like, just everything related to hip-hop, from music all the way to movies and just the culture in general. So that was, you know, when you like something and when you're passionate about something, you do it. There's only one thing, you get good at it. So I think that was the reason why I am able to speak English the way how I'm able to speak. And I think, you know, I speak English to a certain good level, I would say. Because if you don't hear and speak for a long time, it will be really hard. And this is my opinion, it will be really hard to catch my accent, my Spanish accent. But this is up to you guys to rate it. So let me know in the comments what you guys think about my English. The fifth language is obviously Arabic. And I speak Arabic in this way that you hear now and I learned it in Egypt. And sometimes, if I was in the street and I wasn't trying to speak in a clear way, some people, especially those who speak Arabic, they say that the word or the way you pronounce the letters and some words are Egyptian. So they ask me, and it may be because of the shape, but they ask me, are you Egyptian? And maybe I will try to speak in Egyptian a little bit so that you can hear, even if it is an Egyptian, he will tell me what the level is. But the language I learned and the way I learned it in Arabic is clear. But when I was in Egypt, I used to go down a lot, if you know Cairo, in Egypt, I used to go down a lot to the street of Qumashat because I was a brother. So I used to go down the street in a clear way and in a continuous way, going down and going down. So I think that because of the trade, the trade has affected me in their way of speaking and their way of speaking compared to some of the words I used to pronounce, I don't know, the words come out of my mouth, not in my language. The important thing, these are the five languages I speak. And now guys, after you guys rate my skills in every single language and I want to give a few benefits of how this has benefitted me or benefitted me in life in general in the professional field. When employee years or whatever you might be, they see that in your curriculum, if they see that you speak different languages, automatically gives you a level of, or they see you as a more intelligent person, as a more smart person and whatnot. In the professional field as well, it gives you more opportunities obviously because mainly in the field of tourism, in the field of translation, in the field of whatever it might be, even hospitality if you want to work in a hotel or something like that, well that's tourism really. But the airport, you know, jobs like that, it helps even more as well. As well if you want to run businesses and you want to perhaps, you know, find investors in different countries and these and that, that allows you as well to move around. Now in terms of that as well, that's amazing SubhanAllah. Like, you know, like I have translated, I remember Mufti Munir that we brought him to Spain. So I was translating with it, the most epic conference ever I think. He was speaking in Arabic and in English and I was translating to Spanish. But those who have studied and graduated, they can't understand it. You're not using what? Common sense. And my head, it was the first time I actually translated from Arabic to Spanish and it was SubhanAllah, it was a great benefit, we got a very good feedback from it. But it was just really hard for me actually. It was my first experience in terms of, it wasn't even translating, that was interpretation, that's what really is. So yeah, in terms of that way it helps a lot as well. Then just in life, it helps you grow as a person as well because you understand cultures and you understand people better when you speak their language and when you understand the culture and through the language you understand the culture as well. It's really hard to understand a culture through translations. This is why, just to finish, one of the reasons why some of the Salafis said that the one who doesn't know Arabic, if he's a Muslim and he wants to practice more, the one who doesn't, the Muslim that doesn't know Arabic, he has a nax in his religion, meaning a minus, a minus because through the language, through understanding the language, you actually understand better the concepts of that particular group or if it's a tribe that speaks that language or if it's a religion that speaks that language, like in this case the Arabic language, it gives you more understanding and you're just a la basira. You understand with clarity, not just translation. When you read the translation, you know Arabic, it's just like, yeah, okay, it doesn't sound the same. So yeah, guys, I hope you guys benefited from this and if you guys want me to emphasize a little bit more in different little concepts throughout this whole learning and the methods I used and how long it took me to learn all of these languages to the point of fluency and whatnot, you can comment down below and these definitely should benefit you if you are a student of the Arabic language because learning a language is like any other language. If you are able to learn one language and if you listen to this video, you already know one, you just need to use the same methods that you use to learn that language to learn another one. So, naqtafi bihaathal qadr. May the peace and blessings of Allah be upon you. May the peace and blessings of Allah be upon you. Copyright© OSHO International Foundation www.OSHO.com