Mikel the Hyperpolyglot Gets His First Taste of Arabic

Added: 2026-05-12

[00:00:00]Should we test this? Like not test it. I I know it works, but uh >> test it totally >> demonstrate it. Yeah, let's >> No, we should test it.

[00:00:07]>> So, what do you know in Arabic now?

[00:00:09]Nothing.

[00:00:10]>> Uh in real Arabic, no. Nothing.

[00:00:14]>> I would like that in maybe 10 minutes from now, I would like to hear you say in Arabic, not because you're just memorizing it, but because you actually know what you're doing. I would like to hear you say something like, um, yeah, I was I was studying French. I used to study French, but I'm studying Arabic now.

[00:00:34]>> Something that's long and complicated, you think?

[00:00:36]>> Yes. In like 10 minutes from now.

[00:00:38]>> Okay.

[00:00:39]>> Okay.

[00:00:41]>> All right.

[00:00:41]>> I'm going to put along the top here what I call a verb timeline.

[00:00:47]Past is on the left, just like in history class. You know what I mean?

[00:00:52]>> Yeah.

[00:00:54]In the present, I'm going to put a uh a verb container or a verb starting point.

[00:00:59]You can try to guess. Can you say that?

[00:01:05]>> Beautiful.

[00:01:10]They kind of double the L.

[00:01:14]Uh, Miguel, that means I speak.

[00:01:20]>> Yeah. Uh, Spanish is >> espani.

[00:01:29]Albani.

[00:01:31]>> So, here's like rule number one. All right. Whatever we put on this grid.

[00:01:36]Think of this like a piano that you're playing.

[00:01:40]You're not learning a language. You're learning to play a keyboard. A new kind of keyboard, the Arabic keyboard. So, if there's not a key, if there's nothing here, you can't add anything. You only have two keys.

[00:01:55]>> Yeah.

[00:01:57]>> I speak Spanish.

[00:02:02]So, you can your melody is very simple.

[00:02:04]You can only go bing bing bing bing.

[00:02:07]There's only there's nothing else you can do. That's the only thing you can say. Actually, here I'll give you this.

[00:02:12]If you want to say means I don't speak Spanish. So now one of those things is true. Either bing. See how you're playing the instrument.

[00:02:23]>> It's either or. So what's true for you?

[00:02:30]>> Nice. Doesn't hurt to try it again to let me know for real.

[00:02:36]You said >> there's no word for Anna, though. You can only play the the >> Okay.

[00:02:52]>> What about France?

[00:02:56]>> France. What about >> What about Italy?

[00:03:07]Beautiful.

[00:03:17]>> Hind hindi hindi.

[00:03:23]>> And at which point you start how how many different words do you add until you start?

[00:03:33]>> It does. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter because part part of the thing here is I don't care if you even learn or memorize these words at all. Like I'm not trying to teach you these words. If we took them away and you said, "Oh, dude, I don't remember how to say Chinese." I'd be like, "Okay, that's fine. I I don't care. Just play what you have then. Don't mention Chinese."

[00:03:58]>> That's it. I'm not worried about the specifics. I'm just wanting you to get the muscle memory down.

[00:04:05]>> Mhm.

[00:04:06]>> Okay. Now, if we turn to tetalum, you see how we said >> um if you said Tony, you're asking me.

[00:04:18]That's you speak.

[00:04:22]>> That's you speak.

[00:04:23]>> Yeah.

[00:04:24]>> Uh as a question or as a statement, >> you can make it a question. Just go Tony Bonnie.

[00:04:30]>> Bonnie.

[00:04:32]Keep going.

[00:04:41]>> No.

[00:05:05]Franceali not really Hindi rousi not really bas I don't know you know >> oh I have no idea >> how do they call it >> probably baski lugatal basque maybe anyway >> okay what about you Mikuel question for you and I really I'm really asking now Bonnie is banani franc nice and smooth now >> I told how many times did it take four before it clicked it snaps into the grid.

[00:06:11]All right.

[00:06:14]is Spanish.

[00:06:15]>> France Itali.

[00:06:22]>> It just keeps getting faster and faster because Yeah.

[00:06:25]>> All right.

[00:06:31]>> Nice. That shows you how well the muscle memory is in there. All right. So, >> hindi. Last one.

[00:06:41]Hindi.

[00:06:43]All right, check this out. I study. I'm I'm studying. I study or I'm studying. Edus, can you say that?

[00:06:56]>> Edrus.

[00:06:57]>> Edrus. Uh, can you say I'm studying English? I'm not studying English.

[00:07:02]You're already perfect English. But one one or the other here. Edus Espani.

[00:07:06]Edrus Franci. Edusi.

[00:07:09]Ed.

[00:07:09]>> Edrus Espani. Edus Franci.

[00:07:13]Edusi >> if becomes tetalum that's like our verb cup one verb cup two >> be tedus >> beautiful dude beautiful all right ask me a question >> fr n is yes >> nam Um, Edrus France. You said Tony. Tedus France. Tedus Italy.

[00:07:49]Tedusi. You could go. You could just go.

[00:07:54]It's like the box. You're on offense.

[00:07:56]You can keep going. Tedus. Now I got to go. Mayo.

[00:08:01]Pedros. Ted Aby. No. Edby.

[00:08:10]Tedros France.

[00:08:11]>> No, Edus Franc.

[00:08:13]>> Uh, Ted Itali.

[00:08:18]>> Tedus Espani.

[00:08:20]>> No, Edpani.

[00:08:24]>> Okay, so now we got two verbs, questions, answers.

[00:08:38]Watch this. If you say and then just add ethical, it means I used to, I was how would you say I used to study?

[00:09:03]Uh >> nice. Used to speak English.

[00:09:09]Brings study over.

[00:09:15]>> Oh yeah.

[00:09:17]English.

[00:09:19]>> Used to study English.

[00:09:22]But >> I can type >> beautiful dude. Waken.

[00:09:32]And by the way, len ln means now.

[00:09:42]Can you say I used to study English but I study Arabic now? Right.

[00:10:00]>> That works. That works. You can even go just all the way this way.

[00:10:05]>> Does the Does the order matter here?

[00:10:07]Like >> no kind of I mean it's try try it completely this way. Say let me try it one time. Ku Edus France Eden.

[00:10:22]Uh, KTO Edus.

[00:10:43]That's your first checkpoint like climbing this mountain.

[00:10:49]>> And the next step would be to add the future as well.

[00:10:54]>> Check this out. Watch how easy this is.

[00:10:56]Bring all of this over here.

[00:10:59]Put se in front of all of it.

[00:11:06]And that's future.

[00:11:12]That's all it is.

[00:11:14]>> Arab.

[00:11:14]>> Beautiful. Sedus. Give it a little glottle. Beautiful. Beautiful.

[00:11:18]Beautiful.

[00:11:19]>> Sedus. Inshallah. So, um, this vocabulary is all of the vocabulary that's in the cup.

[00:11:30]And when I said you can pour it from cup one to cup two and it stays the same, this is what I mean. If we took a cup that saysamus every language that you will study inshallah you could pour all of that vocabulary into that cup. So tell me I will even if it's not fully true tell me I will study Spanish I will study francancy I will study everything inshallah which they they always say try something >> sedus inshallah >> sus inshallah sedus Inshallah lean because I because I present tense I want >> beautiful dude or >> onid on I want to speak you just copy watch this copy and paste Boom.

[00:12:52]Arabanied.

[00:13:03]Inshallah. Lean on with with Tony.

[00:13:34]>> Beautiful dude. Beautiful. Can you say I want to speak Arabic?

[00:13:56]Let me copy and paste again. So, we're just building out the keyboard. We're not studying Arabic. We're just programming the keyboard so you can play it.

[00:14:06]>> Do you keep this somewhere or you just build more and more of this?

[00:14:10]Every time I meet a person, I start a new tab with the date. So like your name is here and today's date is on this tab.

[00:14:18]And if I showed you my if I showed you my sheets and I've deleted some of these over the years, but I've got like thousands of people that I've done this with.

[00:14:30]That's me scrolling down. Each one of those is like a person. Okay, going back to 2010. Just keeps going and going. And I've and I've deleted other ones, too. So, there's like literally like thousands of people done with anyway. Yeah. So, one sheet per person.

[00:14:51]This is me getting back to the top.

[00:14:54]Okay. Tamik.

[00:14:57]All right. And yeah, each time we meet, we create a new painting, you know, a new quadro. So each one is its own song or instrument or painting. I don't know, you know. All right. Here's my current control panel.

[00:15:26]Edi franced.

[00:15:29]Question for you, Mikuel. Tedus Espani.

[00:15:33]Ted Fr.

[00:15:45]Leania Talam is funny, >> dude. Okay. See, that's that's why you're already the man. Like, we I I'm I want people to do that.

[00:15:55]>> And because I don't know how to say well, but if I knew that, I would have said, >> right? Yeah. Okay. So, I I I almost forgot who I'm dealing with here. We got a we got a a master language learner.

[00:16:07]So, I can I could I we could push we could push the issue. So, watch this.

[00:16:12]Espani need to find space for this here. I'm just going to give you a new iteration of that as language of mother. Mother tongue native language.

[00:16:48]Right.

[00:17:04]Espanol.

[00:17:08]Uh namanugatum.

[00:17:37]Arabic.

[00:18:00]back in the day.

[00:18:02]I used to um edus, you know, used to study Arabic, right? So, Ku Edus Espani.

[00:18:20]How many How many of these do you think you need to actually have like Cuz this is just with I don't know how many BS we did this with, but um just with this like we like I haven't learned any Arabic at all until now basically. And you got me talking like a little bit like way more than people do in the in the first ever class. It's instant conversation.