there are truly polyglots out there I wouldn't consider myself to be a
polyglot maybe just multilingual but you won't find a lot of polyglots or
true polyglots on youtube to be honest a lot of them
don't do youtube they're out in the business world they're out in academia
and that's how I met this friend this dude is so good
he has the best japanese that I have ever heard
a foreigner speak and I know quite a few foreigners that speak
the dude speaks seven languages I met him at Fudan University he was studying
chinese and go figure he's from Finland there are a lot of
european polyglots it's really impressive and a lot of them are hiding
out here you won't see them on youtube you need
to know them you need to meet them in real life in the business world or in academia
okay no chinese
I can't open the packaging and you think I'm going to put this together
You know how to speed this up right. Because it might take that long.
I only have 500 gigabytes of memory on this
memory card so hurry up okay it tells me it's another nine hours so
we have nine hours to finish this I wonder if I can do it in time
you won't find a lot of true polyglots on youtube there are a few but a lot of
them just do not have a very strong grasp on the languages that they're
learning they could not be like this guy and go into the business world
and work with that language I have to say about the youtube thing like
why don't these polyglots or really high level business people that speak
multiple languages go into it well you know youtube is more about
personality and being entertaining and being good at video editing telling a
story and yeah that's a whole nother skill set in
itself so it's not always about language ability
it's also about just making good videos Why am I filming sideways? ok one more time and
get that tenpura
why did you eat the lemon
why did you eat the lemon not even a japanese thing
Oh no, you just don't know you just don't know that. Do you just stick your finger in the salt too?
yeah all my friends do that
Man Finland! Finland is just winning they're just killing it over here
they're just winning win dang I'm jealous
this is not a normal sized coffee cup what are you talking about
look at mine and look at yours yeah you have as much cream as I have
coffee in this. I know that's how I like it yeah that's how I
like it i'm sad that you weren't filming when in the
queue for starbucks an empty can of an empty can of Redbull
came out of your bag you mean this can? yeah exactly
Klong, klong. klong on the floor I might have some problems you like caffeine how else do you think
I do two videos a week?
Okay, Yamanote sen. So, I'm going that way.
And I'll see you next time.
yeah so that's my friend he is a true polyglot
the reason that a lot of people who know a lot of languages are not on youtube
the ones that are really using it for business is
it's not their style it's not their personality style and
youtube is just something else so it's really more about entertainment
and having that personality and a lot of people that are very skilled at
languages like Akaki san not the youtube type
you're not going to really see him doing a whole lot on youtube
although he does have a channel there's the real deal Finnish
polyglot he's got the best Japanese of anyone I know
living in japan as a foreigner
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