How Professional Spies Learn Languages FAST
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🔎 Real-life professional spies can find themselves in some pretty dangerous situations. The key to their survival? Speaking languages well enough to fool the locals–and hopefully survive! Today's video takes a deeper look at these pros and their methods behind learning languages fast. I found 12 spy secrets that you can steal to help you learn languages even faster.
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0:00 – I found 12 spy secrets
0:49 – Why do spies need language skills?
2:35 – Perfection paradox explained
4:49 – The anti-routine trick
6:38 – The fluency trap
8:04 – Accents: a spy’s double-edged sword
11:33 – Immersive training for spies
14:20 – Memory techniques
16:30 – Listening skills for spies
17:46 – Keeping cool while speaking
19:06 – Code switching
19:58 – Cultural fluency
21:30 – Reading body language
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“Why do you learn so many languages? Are you a spy?”
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Bourne theory 😅
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Nah, just need more money 😅😅😅
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I think to some extent you do. Learning languages expands you, changes you for the better.
Pls more videos like this. It’s thrilling 😅
I agree!!
20:12 Or how to indicate the number 3 with your fingers the native way…
The Welsh guy, hard to understand his English😂
I think today with so many people migrating and multilingualism on the rise using language as a disguise has become pretty easy
He sounds more like a sourcy trying to speak regular English.
Burn Notice is awesome.
Re: perfection: on YouTube, I often find that the difference between 99% native-quality and 100%, is that the non-natives are too perfect. Native speakers drop endings, slur their words, etc. One good example of such a 99%-native English speaker is the “History with Kayleigh” channel.
In real life, too!
That’s a good point. Inner net, Internet.
It’s not that they’re “too perfect” it’s that natives speak in a natural accent or dialect.
These non-natives (who are technically brilliant) sound like they have swallowed the dictionary with the standard British or American pronounction.
Not perfect in that they are not using connected speech and reductions which makes everything inefficient/slower and harder for the speaker.
Learning a Language is not just learning to translate from your language to the other
It’s assimilating to their way of speaking and behaving.
In my native language (spanish) is very easy to spot when someone is a non-native speaker because they sound too formal in casual speech whilest simultaneously having a very limited vocabulary.
Funny you made this video as when I was a kid my dream was to be spy 😂! I didn’t really know what it meant but I was facilitating by their skills. I speak 4 languages and practice martial arts, maybe I still have a chance 😂
What languages?
@@ellagallagher9877 I speak Portuguese, Ingles, Spanish and German 😁
Great video Olly. Really interesting!
I have to point out considering you mentioned the James Bond movies, if you have ever read all of the novels you will see that the novels make the movies look like children’s fantasy stories! The novels are more nitty gritty, realistic, down to espionage and much more sophisticated than any movie has portrayed them. In fact you could never watch a James Bond movie the same way again after reading the novels.
Thank you as always Olly!
I cannot agree more about the ‘perfection’ factor.
I have absolutely no interest in rivalling Dumas, Hugo etc in French despite a certain owl based app demanding perfection. All I want to do is communicate.
20:55 I started to order my drinks shaken, not stirred.
Actually, you can pretend to be a Brazilian if you don’t say anything. Literally any people in Brazil can pretend to be a Brazilian while not speaking.
Sounds like Finland
Its not just language.. the culture is Extremely Important.
AT 21:03 WOW the flowers things- SUCH A SMALL THING- but I would have noticed that too- not sure what to make of it, but it would have gotten my “that’s odd” spidey sense up.
I started with StoryLearning a year ago but I was frankly lost, I didn’t have the basic tools to even begin – it was missing the first baby steps in Spanish. I gave up and started to listen to Michel Thomas Spanish. This gave me the basics and allowed me to take my first faltering steps. After completing this, StoryLearning opened up to me and I find it a wonderfully thought out and immersive course. I still find the spoken stories neigh on impossible to comprehend because of the speed at which they are narrated however the rest is solid and using VLC I can slow the spoken text down. You have ignited a fire in me for Spanish and I thank you for that, Olly.
According to Olly, spies don’t use story learning methods.
Nice to see they don’t use story learning method due to the slowness. Thanks for the truth. i almost signed up for the story learning courses. You saved me so much money and time!
I am going to study how spies learn languages more.
8 minutes into the video and not one word about how spies are learning a new language
😂 Michael Fassbender in “Inglorious Basterds” is the perfect example of that “uncanny valley” being half german he sounds ALMOST german, but a german instantly “smells the rat”