On his channel Metatron Academy, Raffaello Urbani once more repeats his rant on a specific type of polyglots: those showing off their self declared language proficiency, but proving very little true skill.
In the video below, Raffaello comments on two (Dutch) self declared polyglots talking to one another in several languages. (No, Italian is not one of them.) Apart from decent English, which can be taken for granted among over three quarters of the Dutch population, they also speak Spanish, barely more than beginner level.
You can watch it on YouTube here to read comments.
Their (Brazilian) Portuguese is intertwined with some Spanish. Their disgraceful French is almost impossible to determine as such. The bald guy at the right is quite fluent in German. He probably originates from Limburg, where the local dialect even sounds close to German.
Metatron is also criticizing their Mandarin Chinese, lacking the tones to facilitate understanding of what they are trying to say.
Wouter Corduwener is the guy with the straw hat on the left. He has been checked by Evildea who is separating the corn from the chaff in his polyglot evaluation videos. Wouter is found to massively overstate his language abilities. That 's a national vice in the Netherlands, if it could be used as an excuse. On his Youtube profile page, Wouter is deliberately vague about his language abilities in 29 languages.
Being fluent in two or three languages makes you bilingual or trilingual and keeps you out of the spotlights.
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