Immersion based learning is counter intuitive to a lot of people. If you're not sold on it, watch this playlist with videos from various creators on why it works and how to do it effectively:

You need to go into an IKEA, and SHOCK the employees with PERFECT SWEDISH!

I am the tutor/teacher who got surprised by Lamont. Lamont, once again, you do a great job!

I tried this kind of thing when I was filming in New York with Xiaoma. The Japanese woman actually gave a great reaction to my broken Japanese, so when I switched to the way I normally speak, she didn't really give any additional reaction haha (since she was pretty much already at the peak of surprise right from the start)

Fan vad förvånad man blev när "ha det så kult på restaurangen" kom upp! Älskar din kanal, keep it up :)

The number of “polyglots” I’ve seen “speaking” 400 languages they’ve casually picked up or learned in a week…yet they sound (obviously) like beginners so why just not be honest instead and have fun with it? It’s not a competition 🤔

I agree with you about the awkward part. It was funny when she realized it and everything, but the part where you were pretending to not know anything was so painful to watch, I was pittying her. She was probably like "oh Jesus how many more minutes of this?" LOL

She was such a good sport! She deserves to get a good few lessons out of this.

She had a good laugh 😂 this was funny

Her face when u say "språket" and she's like "damn, his accent is more native sounding than mine" xD

My God, I clicked on this video thinking “Lamont has started using clickbait?” and when I watch it there’s a full explanation of why, total honesty about what happened, an admission that it wasn’t fun to make and an apology for the clickbait.

Massive props to the teacher that let you use the footage! I had this same "experiment" happen to me in real life, very much unintentionally, and to be honest it was a quite unpleasant experience. Basically what happened was that I "self-studied" Spanish by watching a TV series pain-stakingly over and over spending 600 or so hours in 4 months. It was only a 60 hour show, so that means I watched each episode about 3 times and spent about 7 hours on Google Translate or making notes. I told myself, I would get a tutor when I was done. At that point, I obviously didn't SPEAK any Spanish at all and had never tried to do so in my life. Nor had I ever learned any grammar. So I truthfully told the teacher I found that I was a beginner, 4 months of study, didn't know any grammar and had never spoken before. So he started out like I was a baby teaching in English and annoyingly repeating shit a million times. I could tell he was a quality teacher, but if I sucked so bad that he was going to treat me like that, I reckoned I needed it. But at the same time, it was pure torture. I needed for him to speak naturally like I was a full grown adult and to stop using English. I decided I would just take only 1 class a week until he got his shit together. Most other teacher figured this shit out in less than 1 hour. It took him like a month. Then all the sudden he seemed completely mind-fucked like... how was it that we just had a conversation comparing and contrasting economic policies and forms of government? I mean I wasn't good, but I could at least talk about shit and make sentences by time I had worked (simultaneously) with another teacher for 1 month. So finally he got his shit together and decided (now this part surprised me) there wasn't much point in going through grammar with me and we should just converse every day and get my error corrected.

She had such a cute reaction.

Props to Cecilia for being so patient with you when she thought you were a complete beginner. Her reaction when you came clean was adorable!

That was so funny she was stunned her mouth dropped.

You had me for a second there haha. I always find these "White guy surprises everyone with perfect XYZ language" or "Learned XYZ language in 24 hours" videos slightly annoying and presumptuous. Especially the former ones. It's like, this is a video that you recorded yourself about yourself speaking a language and uploaded it to your own channel, so why do you refer to yourself in the third person by calling yourself "white guy" or "american" like somebody was making a documentary about you or something? Even Dogen made a parody of those videos. But your content is always very honest and real so I couldn't believe that you were doing click-bait videos like those and I was relieved to find out that there was a secret reason behind it haha.

Having watched your previous content, I didn't think it was going to be clickbaity. I super enjoyed this. I'm really glad you skipped over the awkward parts and basically, gave us enough to get the idea; and then ran with the fun full steam. Well done. Love your regular content as well. Thumbs up!

That's a good point, gotta compete with those fake ass "polyglots" who can count to ten and say hello in a billiongajillion languages so at least people are clickbaited onto a real language learning channel. Love that Dogen appeared in the footage at the end.

I think it's more difficult to catch on to a sudden improvement simply because people tend to speak worse when they're nervous and it take a bit of time to feel comfortable with a new teacher. And getting a strong reaction from a teacher is even more difficult. Like how she said at the end that she was even more surprised than she was letting on. Bra jobbat iallafall! Jag ser fram emot din nesta video!

Damn, as an native Swede it's really cool to see someone learn the language but not only learn it but to speak fluently in it is insane! 😅