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The story of the last guy, who was forced to learn Arabic because his mother thought Arabs would take over the world, is hilarious.

I relate 100% with the girl who knew german thanks to Rammstein 🤣

Learned how to pronounce "русский и английский" reasonably well from this video.

at least I learnt some russian today: russkiy, arabskiy, nemetskiy, frantsuzskiy, angliyskiy.. 😅

Я честно говоря удивлён как много наших только на русском говорят, я думал мы все изучали английский (хотя по школьной программе), и что вся "молодёжь" умеет хотя бы в 2 языка.

The joke used to be that if you spoke three languages you were trilingual, two language you were bilingual and one language, you were American.

«я учу испанский» «читает hola как хола, а не ола» 😀 гений

Как же классно когда ты смотришь иностранный ролик без субтитров в котором понимаешь все содержимое 😂

My high school in the US once offered Russian. I wish I would have taken it, but I took French instead. Turns out I rarely meet french speaking people in the US, but worked with lots of Russians. There are many Russians in Sacramento, California.

Я американка. Я говорю по английски, японски, и китайски, и немного по корейски, русски, и американский жестовый язык. 😊 Я люблю изучать языки. 🌏 ~:~

Спасибо Rammstein, благодаря вам, примерно четверть подростков, начинала изучать немецкий

I also studied Russian on my own. The important thing is to listen and imitate the actual sounds with your ears. By the way,I’m sure you are getting lots of requests for corporate projects.Keep it up! I am really happy to see you in this video❤ daniil you are cool inside and out🥰love!

"I also studies German thanks to Rammstein" - that's gold.

Я родился и вырос в Гонконге, и мои родные языки - кантонский и мандарин (два китайского языка) - в семье и с друзьми говорю на кантонском и с бабушкой (которая умерла в прошлом году) говорил на мандаринском. В детстве учил английский в школе, потом учил немецкий после того, как поступал в универ - потом учился в Германии. И потом выучился русскому для интереса, и ещё японскому. Пытался учиться французскому, испанскому, арабскому, но скоро сдавался. В последнее время начался учиться итальянскому. Ну еще знаю несколько языков программирования ...

Спасибо за Ваше видео. Я давно хотел начать вести влог на английском, но комплексовал из-за произношения. Благодаря Вашему ролику я понял, что можно итак вести влог. Спасибо!!!! --

As a Swiss, I can't really relate. My mother tongue is French and I started learning German when I was 6, followed by English and Spanish in highschool. Afterwards I chose to continue with English at university, along with Russian. I then moved to the Italian-speaking part where I learned very quickly as I was working there and now I've been learning Ukrainian since March. I'm a lover of languages :)

Quite interesting for this student of languages. BTW, Daniil, the low volume intelligent background music is greatly appreciated; it does not interfere with concentration like so many other blogs.

После просмотра подобных видео с Лондоном и Канадой, я ожидал от сограждан большего. В моём окружении каждый хотя бы английский или немецкий знает и изучает, а оказываается, что, в основном, люди не стремятся выходить из нативных знаний, это обидно. Видимо, народ просто не видит в этом нужды, ибо перезжать не собираются, а путешествовать не хотят или не могут.

I seem to recognise many of the faces. There appears to be a correlation between their responses in previous videos and that their ability to speak a language other than Russian. Thanks for your great work Daniil and crew!

Daniil, you and Artyem stay safe and thanks for these views of Russia.

I can speak Russian, Belarusian and English fluently, also I can almost perfectly understand Ukranian cuz when I was younger I used to watch Ukranian TV shows with my granny plus I tried to learn Ukranian but I can't speak it and also I'm learning some Polish in case of moving to Poland.

Great stuff, as always, Daniil! 💗

Thank you Danill, your work is hugely appreciated

Another winner Daniil. Keep them coming buddy. We in America love the insight into the Russian mind.

Love your editing style lately, Daniil

I know Mandarin, Wuxi, Shanghainese and 10 other Chinese words.

I always enjoy the editing on these. Sure, it's not a huge part of the videos (the content is the main draw) but it is a nice touch!

Dan's fantastic. Much respect to you

For real guys, Busuu is pretty decent and was recognized by many polyglots I’ve watched to pick up on my German. So far so good! Highly recommend it

5:07 фраза которая подошла лучше всего тут...

I can speak spanish 🇲🇽 , Russian 🇷🇺, english 🇺🇸 and Japanese 🇯🇵 I lived in Mexico for a year and in dagestan for 3 months and when I was younger I worked in a Japanese restaurant for 3 years. I used to be fluent in Norwegian and chinese but I never was in a situation where I was forced to practice as much as the others, and it's hard to maintain fluency in so many languages

1:55 я по этой логике тогда могу общаться на 133 языках))

Я сама преподаватель английского, 80% моих друзей хорошо понимает английский. Но меня не удивило, что половина людей знает только один язык, так как школьное образование по части языков зачастую на довольно низком уровне. Плюс я могу общаться на Болгарском, не зная ни одного правила, просто схватывала, что могла, пока училась там. Даже работала в полностью болгарском коллективе, проблем практически не возникало, за исключением разве что специфических диалектов. Также на минимальном уровне знаю немецкий, то есть могу сделать заказ в ресторане или дорогу спросить :) А дети сейчас помимо английского вторым языком стали выбирать китайский. А вот европейские языки уходят на второй план, как ни крути, Китай сейчас для многих более перспективный.

I am swedish and have learnt english, french and a bit of german in school. The last eight years I have studied spanish on the Duo Lingo app.

i wish I could speak more russian and ukrainian. those slavic language always interested me considering I have some roots in both areas. it is very interesting to me to see people speak those languages :)

I love your videos, all. Love from France

Родные языки :русский и татарский . Так же знаю и использую: Английский (B2) , немецкий (A2) , финский (А2) , проблематично, но понимаю украинский , белорусский, казахский

Idk why but your videos have helped me pick up quite a few Russian words.

I'm glad to see chill regular people.

в конце видео хорошо бы статистику показать, наглядно было бы очень неплохо как закрепление опроса

this video summarizes knowledge of citizens of Russian-speaking part of Russia. If you ask the same question in Caucasus most of people know perfect Russian and at least one of Caucasian languages which is their native language. My average Russian family is fluent in Russian, Kabardian and Karachay-Balkar languages

Busuu is legit one of the best language learning apps.

I just cant understand people who knows only 1 language. Its okay to be fluent only on your native language, but its weird if you dont know English basics. Im from Russia and fluent on English, learning German (because I really love Germany), also i know Ukrainian basics (My dad is Ukranian and when he drunk he just turns his default settings and speak only Ukranian) and also we started learning French this year in school (4 years ago, when i was 10, our school said that our class will start learning French or German (we had choose) in 2019. Well, something went wrong (as always) and we started learning French (without choose between French and Germany) only this year lol)

In addition to my native languages Ukrainian and Russian, I also know Polish well because of the current situation, I had to move here. My English is not bad (enough to go abroad) and I study Spanish and German. (I also understand Belarusian and Czech well, but I can’t speak)

As an American living here, the most common foreign language on the streets here (other than Uzbekistan and Tajikistan languages) is Chinese, third is arabic/Persian, fourth is English

This explains something.. Tnx for video

Было очень интересно встретить парня, который знает мордовский

1:19 love the humor. One of fav channels. I pray Danil you and everyone involved at 1420 stay well. Happy holidays!!! Also, no smoke here but…why does every language end in ‘ski’. Ruski, anglishski, allemangski, francaisski?

Learning languages improve your intellect and your knowledge about countries. It's 100% recommended and really good for your health. Hehe!

I've heard this before many times from *LongDistance GF* from *Russia* (she's an English teacher) and not many speak it she told me. I was shocked when I first heard it tbough. And that its changing slowly, but.. majority just speak *Russian* or *Russian & Ukrainian* We both speak 4 Languages. But I still have some ways to improve in *Russian* & Would like to learn more later down the line. Because of the War it's been hard to meet each other. But we keep in Touch weekly.

I love your videos, they are very entertaining! And very informative.. But I do not know how you can make these videos and ask these questions given the current situation !! You are one brave guy.... Love the putin joke..

Please publish the data. For an instance: that many people has been asked, that many replied and that many abstained. You were asking for the numerical answers afterall. Thank you!

армянин красава, настроение поднял)

Знаю русский,татарский,башкирский,казахский, понимаю украинский,белорусский.Надо бы уже выучить английский)

Когда смотрела интерью в других странах,то там просили сказать что нибудь на языке ,который знаешь. Вот так и у нас должны были вести. Было бы понятно уровень.

My languages (from most fluent to least fluent): Cantonese (native) Mandarin (basically native but have accents noticeable by native) English (no problem for business and academic communication but obviously non-native) German (studied in Germany but obviously less fluent than English, can talk with Germans in German pretty fluently but sometimes don't understand shit when two Germans speak with each other) Russian (actively learned it for three years and then passively for six years, can communicate in Russian but mostly small talks, can't go too deep like politics) Italian (learned it for three months but it's a pretty easy language, Italians are sometimes impressed because I get subjuctive right) Japanese (actually learned it quite early but never systematically, passed N3 without preparation just because I know Kanji) French (failed my A2 course because my listening sucks lol, now I almost don't remember shit)

I speak Russian and English. I learn Finnish🇫🇮 it’s really beautiful and melodic♥️ I like how it’s sounds with men’s voice more😅

Busuu is a tool for learning languages, I used it a lot and I speak 🇺🇦🇷🇺🇵🇱🇬🇧🇨🇳🇪🇸🇹🇷

Besides Russian I speak fluent Ukrainian, English and Swedish and Catalan at probably A2 level, understand Belorussian and Norwegian quite well, written Danish and some simple things like newspaper headlines in Spanish, Dutch, Polish etc. Made some efforts to learn Turkish but it didn't go well without a tutor.

I only speak a few languages fluently: German 🇩🇪 English 🇬🇧 French 🇫🇷 Spanish 🇪🇸 Norwegian 🇳🇴 Swedish 🇸🇪 Danish 🇩🇰 Dutch 🇳🇱 I can communicate in the following languages, but not fluently: Russian 🇷🇺 Portuguese 🇵🇹 Italian 🇮🇹 Polish 🇵🇱 Indonesian 🇮🇩 (very easy to learn language) Japanese 🇯🇵 Korean 🇰🇷 Not much, but I get along.

Better than most average Americans ! That would be hysterical video. Depending on the state. We are English speakers and we think everyone should, we are a haughty bunch.

Мама думала, что арабы завоюют весь мир.... Ахвхв

I am from Moscow, Russia and there are only 2 languages that I will never learn on purpose: French and Chinese. You know why? Yeah, right, pronunciation. I tried myself French and it turned out to be a torture 😂 Not because it’s hard to pronounce, but because I don’t like making weird sounds and not saying endings of the words. Spanish and Italian seems like much easier to learn. Now I am only learning advanced English and Spanish. Spanish is very beautiful and useful language nowadays I assume.

Would have been nice if you asked them to say a particular sentence (you tell them) in the language(s) they claim to know.

Living in Canada I speak English, was taught some French in school but it had no practical application for me. Estonian was my first language, grandparents on my father's side who lived with us only spoke Estonian and all my parents friends were Esto. Both sets of my grandparents left Estonia during WW2 to escape the Commies taking over. Though now at 45 my Estonian has become very rusty (grandparents died in the 1980s and I stopped going to Esto camps, scouts, folkdancing etc)

I'm Dutch. As a small trading country we had to learn at highschool the languages of our larger neighbours; French; German and English. Later in live I added Spanish to it.

English is the de facto language of the world. Even back in the 1950s aviation control had recommended basic English proficiency for the industry. Now to access the internet and the world elementary English is a must.

I live in Russia and i dont know people that dont know english at al. English is included in the school curriculum. So I think when they say that they can only speak Russian they mean that they can't speak English fluently, but they most likely understand it

I love languages! I speak Italian, my regional language, English to a "decent" level (at least that is what I hope😅), some German, very very very very super basic japanese. I also learned the Cyrillic alphabet and very basic Russian words, an astonishing low amount of Korean words and some basic greetings in Hungarian. Jó napot guys🙋🏼‍♀️😅

In Sweden we have our first language, Swedish, and then we learn English from around age 9 (at the latest), and then from age 12 (earlier it was age 13) we get to choose between German/French/Spanish (all schools have to offer at least 2 of these, some schools offer other languages too), these are manditory. From age 16 we learn the forth language (while we continue study english and other language as well), like one of those we didn't chose when we were 12, or another, which languages depends on the school, and these are not manditory, it depends on which school and courses you chose. And then Swedes understand Norwegian and written Danish as well (some spoken Danish, but it's hard), since our languages are so similar. Unfortunately, languages you don't use that often you tend to forget, so I would say that it's only Swedish and English all Swedes speak fluently. I can't imagine what it would be like only knowing Swedish. So limiting, not being to travel, communicating online, playing games, watching news etc. I think a lot of Swedes tend to forget that not everyone speaks English, because we take it for granted.

Spontaneous "breathe air" made my day.

Only Finnish and English fluently here, but I can get by in Japanese, too. 🇫🇮🇬🇧🇯🇵 In addition I know some German, Spanish, and Swedish. 🇩🇪🇪🇸🇸🇪 I've tried at some point to learn a little bit of Russia, Hindi, French, and Hungarian. 🇷🇺🇮🇳🇫🇷🇭🇺 But thanks to the languages I know I can understand at least some Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Estonian, and Karelian. ✌🏻😁 "Jack of all trades, but master of none is better than master of just one."

The Last one about the Arabic was very very interesting ❤️😂😭. His mom is cool❤️😭😂.

We need a full story of the last guy, hahahah

I can't fathom just knowing one language. That fade out at the end was genius XD.

As a Russian I can understand Ukrainian (and Surzhik), Belarusian, Serbian and Czech. I sometimes have trouble understanding Polish, but speaking Polish is much easier to understand than reading

As a Russian, I speak Russian(obviously), English, Japanese and Spanish

It would had been more interesting if you asked each person to say something like what they ate for breakfast that day in English, to get a level.

We'd love to see Artyem's handsome face from time to time. He has a great voice too.

00:14h yes, portuguese. We sent the laguage to Brasil 500 years ago🙂

Do the video again, but get the people to say something in each foreign language they claim to know so that we can be sure they're not lying. For example, I am English and I can also say Да and нет, but I wouldn't claim to speak Русский. Mind you, Да and нет will be enough in a nightclub.

Wish you had asked the guy who studied in Sweden (4:17) if he could say something in Swedish! Even if he was mostly communicating in English, he must have picked up something in Swedish living here.

I visited Russia a lot (St. P & Moscow) from 1996-2005, and unless they've made miracle progress in the intervening years, I think there's probably a high degree of over-estimation of their foreign language abilities as claimed here. :D I know their surfing the net has helped some in recent years, but let's face it- that's a pretty passive way to learn another language. I'll never forget a Moscow cop who had taught himself some Texas twang English by watching old episodes of "Dallas"! It might have been endearing if he weren't trying to press me for a bribe!! ^^

It’s not much different in the USA-the vast majority of Americans of *European* and *African* descent speak only English fluently. Many Hispanic-American can speak Spanish or at least “Spanglish.” Many Asian-Americans speak their heritage language at least a little. True bilingualism (fluency in more than one language) is relatively rare. Most Americans understand some Spanish-even if they don’t know it’s Spanish-because certain Spanish phrases, words, and responses have been assimilated into American English, in much the same way that New Zealand English contains Maori words. I’m an outlier-I’m fluent in English, conversational in Spanish but not fluent, and I could make my needs known in both Moscow and Kyiv. Of those two, my Ukrainian is better. And I can curse in Irish Gaelic😂 I use Duolingo to study. I learned Spanish in school, so Duolingo is just to strengthen that skill, Ukrainian is a heritage language for me that I knew bits and pieces of, so I’m learning the language on Duolingo, Russian seemed interesting, and I’m learning some Irish (another heritage language for me).

thats exactly why i wanted always to learn russian

"breathe air" took me out 🤣

Удивляет то , что там миллион людей у которых уровень английского - натянутый elementery , а все говорят будто знают его как и русский

I bet most of them that say they know multiple languages only know a couple greetings in that language.

The interviewer asks how many languages they can speak (and this is not signed in subtitles). This is a little confusing for the respondents because they know several languages but they speak only their first language fluently. In Russia, we answer the question very accurately

I speak Russian, English and German. I understand Ukrainian pretty well but barely can speak it, I need to learn grammar. I also used to learn a little of French, Italian, Japanese, Czech. I wish to know some Scandinavian languages, I also like Old English. But it all takes time and there’s no opportunities for practice

This seems very representative of my experience as an English teacher with quite a lot - a lot less now - of Russian students. The language pairs of Russian and German, Russian and English, and Russian and Ukrainian are definitely prevalent. I am still very curious how that will change in the upcoming years after the talk of a fade out of the English language in schools there. For anyone wondering, Busuu is decent at the beginner to low intermediate level. I used it as well as a lot of other apps and found it to be one of the better apps out there. I would even put it in my top 5. I wasn't expecting to see OBI there in the background. I don't know why it surprised me, but I guess I just wasn't expecting it.

I can speak english pretty well, my native is russian, can understand but not to speak ukranian, and can a little understand and speak german as well. The more languages you know, the wider are your views. Most russians can't speak other languages and they are narrow minded and fanatic because of that.

Hello, I'll be the 101-st. I speak 7 languages, 6 of them I learnt in school: they are Russian, English, French, German, Turkish, Kazakh and Ukrainian.

I speak Angliskiy, Russkiy, Franceskiy and most importantly Zelen-sky

Noooo, why cut him off?! I want to hear more about his mom thinking the Arabs are going to take over the world! 😆

And that's great!

Hello, I speak four Languages my first Language is the British Language, Brythonic Celtic Cymric or Welsh as the English Call it and I also speak English , French and German, but I can also speak Italian pretty well and Spanish as well, it is interesting that so many young people , still only speak Russian, it could well be that in the future with Putin only Russian will be allowed to be spoken, I firmly believe that it is in everyones interest to speak as many Languages as you can, my Language is very Ancient, the Language has changed very little in the last 2000 Years, we had 1000 Years of wars with the English. starting with the Saxon incasions in the late 5th Century and ending when the Tudor Dynasty under Henry V11 Took the Throne, he was of Cymric Celtic descent and spoke the Language at Court as did His son Henry V111 and Grandaughter Elizabeth 1 . I am very very old, but I find your Channel interesting and much more informative than the Constant Maniacal drivel from your TV propaganda, reminds me of the Nazi's in Germany, I do know Russia I have visited many times in the past firstly in the 1950's and lastly in 2014, then I could see a very distinct change, even in the 1950's under the Soviet Regime of Khruschev I was welcomed and treated with great pride and kindness, that has never changed, I have friends still in St Petersburg Novgorod Briansk and also in the Ukraine which I know well. I do wish the Terrible War and it is a War would end soon, I hope for all of you young people in Russia to have freedom and peace. There are NO winners in a War only grieving families and Battered Cities. Nos da, ich i gyd, pob hwyl.

Would be great to see you communicating in English with them.

If you ask Russians if they speak English in English most will answer. If you ask Americans if they speak Russian in Russian they give you a terrified look..