Sup guys, I wanted to share a really cool conversation
that I had with my grandmother.
I really like her mentality with regards to languages
and she dropped a few nuggets of wisdom.
She did all this pretty much self taught and without access
to the internet which I think is just really
I mean incredible.
So with all that being said I hope you enjoy.
Let's start this in English. Yeah. That's the best place to start.
Ok. I thought I would go really quickly through your
whole story. Just really quick. To
So that people can understand
kind of your background and how you were able to learn so
many languages. Sooo. You were born in Egypt. Right?
Yes. And how long were you there for?
I...was thirteen when I left Egypt.
To go to Italy. Italy,yeah. Okay.
They begin speaking Italian.
They begin speaking French.
Now a little bit of Arabic.
It means welcome. Okay.
Aaah. Okay.
Thank you.
Thank you. It's me.
And yeah. If somebody talked to me in
Arabic. You can understand it? I understand it.
French again.
Now Greek.
How are you? Okay. It means how are you?
Back to French.
How old were you exactly? Ummm..
I think I was twenty
around twenty-twenty one. Okay soo. '64
Yeah, twenty-twenty one. So you're not a kid anymore. No.
I was an adult. So this is a very interesting thing. A lot of people
think as an adult you can't learn languages. You know what I mean.
Exactly.Your only opportunity to learn a language is
when your a kid. Right? Right. Right. But already your
twenty. So you learned Hebrew there. I went to