I HATE POLYGLOTS!

Added: 2026-05-05

[00:00:00]Hey noble ones, welcome back to Metatron Academy. So the more time I spend within the language community here on YouTube, the more I noticed and I realize how much polygots polygots are really not impressive. This is the case in several situations and scenarios. The most obvious one are the scam artists, the fake frauds that don't even speak anything. Maybe they speak one language and then they learn a couple of sentences and that's all they do. And then they want to sell you stuff and then they want to pretend, oh yeah, I speak 50 languages, 400 languages. There was a guy from India recently. Yeah, those are like the bottom of the barrel.

[00:00:35]Like they're like the worst possible because they're actual direct full-on liars. But then there is a different types of polygots and it's the ones that maybe they do learn languages in a very effective way. Maybe they are talented up to a certain extent. But this whole thing I speak 16 languages, I speak 20 languages. They focus so much on the numbers that they are able to have a very basic conversation in like five or six and then the other 10 are just literally a couple of sentences that they have memorized. But the reality is that they don't excel at anything. And personally, I have realized this when it comes to language learning. I am very much more impressed when there is a specialist or when there is someone that knows two languages but they've reached a very high level of proficiency, very high degree of overall knowledge. They the vocabulary choice is impressive. The grammar is spectacular. The pronunciation is almost nativeike. They understand so much of the contextual cues and the cultural elements that are connected to that language that they literally effortlessly communicate with natives and you can tell it's real and they're not doing it because they just want to impress but simply because they are passionate and deeply knowledgeable and you can tell that's what really impresses me within language learning. Polygloths their accent is bad. Their knowledge is pretty basic, if in fact extremely lacking in the majority of these languages. They just add on to inflate these numbers.

[00:02:08]They don't sound good. They don't sound proficient. And the way that they may sound, oh wow, this guy is a genius is only from those who do not know anything about these languages at all. Like nothing. Then yeah, because people can't assess. So they're like, oh, oh wow, this guy speaks so many. No, he didn't.

[00:02:27]like what he did was really subpar. And today there is a video now not necessarily a direct attack at the channel but at the phenomenon. So if the channel I'm not attacking you directly but if you get offended it's on you. I personally do not care at this point.

[00:02:42]Maybe maybe these guys are awesome. I don't know. But there is this channel half a million subscribers. Eight years ago he made this video 8.1 million views which is titled unique encounter between two polyglots in 21 languages. Now, I can see, you know, strategically speaking, bro, 10 out of 10 title.

[00:02:59]Absolutely. I'm even going to forgive the fact that you didn't even put a capital letter at the beginning of the sentence, which is also appropriate when it comes to what usually happens with these polygots. They ignore even the most basic. And again, I'm not necessarily speaking about him. I haven't got a clue if he's one of the rare real ones, but the reality is that this phenomenon unfortunately demonstrates exactly why this has become a thing. Anyways, let's look at this video. This unique encounter number one, English. All right. So, of course, English being such a common language these days, they got to sound native.

[00:03:35]Otherwise, this isn't impressive at all at this point.

[00:03:38]>> Hey guys, I just met a guy and he speaks >> languages. A lot of >> a lot of >> Yeah, I don't want to say number.

[00:03:44]>> So, let's practice all the languages which we have in common. So, you can say a language and we're going to speak this language. or you just you just start speaking the language. I will answer to you immediately. All right. So, >> okay. So, before they switch to English, of course, the first 15 seconds, I think it's clear. I'm not doubting that these two guys speak English. They clearly do speak English. Good for them. Not impressive though. Those 15 seconds weren't something that I hear and I'm like, man, these guys are geniuses. No, they speak English probably like the same level as the majority of the people watching this video right now. Let's see. Espanol.

[00:04:40]Okay. So, they do speak Spanish. Great.

[00:04:43]I don't know if he's native or not. I have no idea. You'll tell me, but I want to hear. So, he did comment. Of course, I understood it. It was very basic. I'm sorry that I'm blocking him. I didn't mean that. Uh very basic conversation.

[00:04:53]Nothing to write home about, at least when it comes to his responses. But let me see one thing. So he commended his accent. One moment.

[00:05:07]>> You can speak five accents. Is this a Dunning Krueger effect? Is it like you think you can do the accents, but it's like cringey? Like me trying to put on an American accent. I know exactly what an American accent sounds like and I also know that if I try and put it on, while I do understand the linguistics aspects of it, I know I will fail and it's going to be cringy. So, I mean, whatever.

[00:05:46]Okay, so they do speak Spanish. Good.

[00:05:48]Next. Brazilian. Let's see.

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[00:07:35]How much is it 25 seconds of of the most basic where did you learn it? How did you learn it? You learn it speaking with people. I even I could understand that and I do not speak Portuguese at all. I understood it perfectly which means anyone can understand that who has even a basic knowledge of related languages.

[00:07:53]So my problem here is again 17 seconds of the most basic stuff. No, let's for people who who claim and again I'm not saying they don't speak these languages.

[00:08:03]I'm saying the exercise is useless one because it's not this oh genius. This is not genius material. I don't care if they do this with 70 languages. Not genius material. Absolutely not. And we need to stop treating it as such because it fuels this weird machine whereby now everyone is going to memorize sentences, right? But what is your level? What else? Dutch. Let's see. Yeah.

[00:08:35]Is that is that your Okay.

[00:08:44]Harlem plums.

[00:08:47]>> I cannot check his Dutch. So if you are Dutch, how did that sound? Let me know.

[00:08:56]>> Both of them.

[00:09:06]>> Hello.

[00:09:08]>> I wish that couple of three sentences.

[00:09:12]Wow. Amazing. Not I wish Italian was here because you know what I'm expecting at this point? I'm expecting stereotypes because that's what they do. Which is an insult. I find it insulting when they do that that stuff. Anyways, what's the next language? What is it?

[00:09:31]Can't even see it. French. Okay, let's go.

[00:09:46]I don't like his French at all. The guy on the left so far his of course his Spanish sounded really good to me, but I don't know. You tell me. And his Portuguese, no idea, but I could understand him. His French sounds subpar. Subpar like a like a beginner.

[00:10:12]Yeah. Yeah. Let's see. So, he's already flipping to another language, which is usually red flag because if you if you're going to demonstrate proficiency, you should speak. Could you imagine if someone did this with me and English was the language just to give you perspective and they went like, "So, do you speak English?" "Oh, yeah. Yeah, no problem. No problem. I do speak English." "Yes." "Do you speak Chinese?"

[00:10:31]"I speak Chinese." It's weird. Is it?

[00:10:34]How did you learn it? Oh, I learned it.

[00:10:35]Oh, wow. Everyone could do this. That's what pisses me off. Chinese. All right.

[00:10:41]Well, let's let's see. Let's see this Chinese. I'm really curious.

[00:10:52]>> Completely wrong. Terrible. Terrible Chinese. Awful pitch. Awful tones.

[00:10:58]Incorrect grammar.

[00:11:02]is okay.

[00:11:07]My god.

[00:11:13]>> Now was that impressive? Okay.

[00:11:22]What's the point? Okay. This this this really proved my point here. Did this demonstrate once and for all how useless it is to be the super polygot with 30 languages and then this is what you do with one of the languages. What's the point? Choose four. But when they do speak to you, say four. Okay, so you say English, Spanish, Mandarin, and French. Drop all the nonsense. Focus on these. Learn them right. And then when someone starts speaking to you, you are you're a you're a bullet. You're and it's not even a matter of speaking fast. I would like to underline because of course another thing that polygots polygots do. Don't you ever call me one. I'm multilingual.

[00:12:04]I'm not a polygot. One other thing that polygots do is that they try to speak as fast as possible which usually turns into nonsense because people are really proficient, really proficient. They do speak fast in a fluent manner that is natural and in organic while at the same time being so comfortable within the sounds of the language and the pronunciation patterns that they also still sound perfectly intelligible. What polygots do is because their level usually is pretty low. So they try to increase it by either going for a stereotypical fake accent which is fake for anyone can tell can tell that or they increase speed so it becomes a mush like a squeezed nonsense a series of sounds that then make no sense but it makes it appear to the untrained ear which is what this is made for uh it makes it appear like my this guy's really good he's he's so fast and so quick no he's not I want to go back so that's impress genius of Mandarin is it now >> he switched language.

[00:13:26]>> So this guy on the left as well memorized a little bit. It looks he sounds a bit like someone who is in first year of as someone who did go through university in Mandarin and Japanese. This guy sounds like what students in first year after a little bit they start trying to speak. They memorize a few sentences. You can tell they're still not familiar with the sounds. The tones go all over the place.

[00:13:46]The moment they add emotion into it, that's what it sounds like. And the guy on the right sounds like not even that is someone who maybe maybe watched a video once.

[00:13:59]Even this, it's it's the tones are all over the place.

[00:14:06]>> And he thinks he has a northern Chinese accent. No, you don't. You have a foreign accent. Oh, for crying out loud.

[00:14:16]Yeah.

[00:14:18]Yeah.

[00:14:28]Even that I'm I've got, you know, because All right.

[00:14:45]Hey. Hey.

[00:14:49]No, that's So he got his degree as the >> but I can speak a lot of South Russian.

[00:15:05]>> Oh yeah, I speak Ukrainian, Belarusian, Russian. Pick one. Pick one. Not everything has to be decided in order to impress. Impress this fixation about the ego. Hebrew.

[00:15:25]Oh, Hebrew lasted 3 seconds. Arabic German.

[00:15:43]>> It's also the same sentence every time.

[00:15:44]Oh, yeah. No problem. Oh, yeah. No problem. Yes, I speak. Yeah, no problem.

[00:15:47]Yes, I speak. Yeah, no problem. It's in Mandarin if you want to know it. Monday night in Japanese. Let's go. So, you got both covered now. You can say you speak both.

[00:16:06]Yeah, this is So, my point being, and I'm going to stop watching this, but I am going to review some of the comments because there is going to be native speakers who give us actual real for the languages that I don't know. The languages that I do know, I'm not impressed with any of them. Right, Mexico is really hot. Left, you're handsome, too.

[00:16:45]Oh my gosh, bro. Doesn't speak any other languages. He learns the exact same five sentences in different languages. That's what I noticed, too. Yeah, this is like watching Sims re interact with each other. That's funny. The Dualingo Bird is very proud of these two. Probably not because Dualingo Bird doesn't want you to go outside and they want you to stay home and and just be connected to the to the app. As an English speaker, I can confirm that they did that section correctly. I think that speaking fluently a foreign language is more impressive than being able to introduce yourself in 10. Absolute thank you. Yes.

[00:17:17]Uh normal people. No. No, bro. No, bro.

[00:17:20]That's what they want you to think. See, as an Arabic speaker, I can confirm they don't speak Arabic. That's what I I knew it. I freaking knew it. It should have been two guys flexing for 12 minutes straight. And there's nothing to flex.

[00:17:32]It It's the equivalent of like someone flexing their body while they are as thin as like chicken legs. Chicken legs.

[00:17:38]It's what it is. But they pretend to be like, "No, no, no. Look at me. Look at me." Because they're wearing the the the the clothes that make it look bigger.

[00:17:44]That's what it is. Yeah. Who do they think they're fooling? I know, brother.

[00:17:48]Exactly. I am French and I live three years in China. My girlfriend is Chinese and I can tell you guys that this guy doesn't speak French nor Mandarin. He just said a couple of words with a terrible accent and didn't even succeed to make the right sentences. Exactly.

[00:18:00]Which is ex There we go. Reading English subtitles while they talk Portuguese.

[00:18:04]I'm Brazilian. I knew it. Now it's like saying thank you in 22 languages precisely which anyone can do. This is the point. Being subpar and almost incompetent in 50 languages isn't impressive, brothers. So how about we drop it and we focus on if you really crave the attention and the glory and you want everybody to bend their knees and worship you for what a genius you are. If that's what you want and you're past 20, because I mean, if everybody wants to be special when we are teenagers, but if you're still doing this at age 30 or 40, man, you probably need professional help. Whatever. If that's what makes you happy, if that's a goal in life that everybody thinks you're a genius, well, then put yourself to work. sit down, study three languages, reach complete mastery, and then maybe tackle a fourth one. Not this. People are not stupid. And that's the other thing that annoys me about fake polygots and regular polygots at this point. They think you're stupid.

[00:19:14]They think you're below you them. They think that you don't you can't tell cuz you don't know I'm the one who knows everything. You don't know anything. You're literally that's what it is. and it annoys me. But here we are.