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🪂 US Special Forces, or Green Berets, are some of the toughest people around. Physical training aside, they are also some of the fastest language learners around! What’s their secret? Stick around and find out.
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0:00 – US Special Forces
0:41 – What are Special Forces?
2:26 – The First Challenge: Selection
6:43 – Special Forces Qualification Course (SFQC)
8:44 – Language Training
11:51 – What Do They Learn?
14:23 – What’s the Method?
15:45 – Training Schedule
19:07 – The Litmus Test
20:17 – Exams and Graduation
22:46 – Is This the End?
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Day 8 of asking Olly to make a video about if Vietnamese is really a hard language to learn?
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Try day nine
While I’d also like a video, the answer is yes absolutely. Those tones are no joke
@@itsmeagain966 fr bro
Why do I feel like I’ve seen this video before😜
Or have you😏
Olly has done videos on US military (non-SF) linguists, language learning for foreign diplomats, and French military linguists as well.
These types of videos are always my favorite. Keep it up man!
What’s up skid Marks?😮
The key to learn a language fast is to have a girlfriend in that target language! Thank me later !
Note that this works best if you’re only learning one language at a time
Man, you’re not kidding. That helped me learn Spanish quickly.
the key to having a girlfriend is to learn another language
@@belstar1128 Also true. Lol
Unless she speaks a Romance language (both in either French, Italian or Spanish, or in a sexy language), best to speak to her to grab her attention
The men who qualify for US special forces are also probably above average in intelligence as well, and the more intelligent you are, the easier it is to learn and absorb new information.
They’re certainly intelligent!
Not necessarily. Most are just relentlessly hard working and well disciplined
@@gezza18 Hard working yes, but a “hard working” soldier who doesn’t score high enough on the ASVAB, and the DLAB test, is NOT going to be permitted to even tryout for an SOF program.
@@What_If_We_Tried I’ve never taken the DLAB but I have taken the ASVAB (technically it was a knockoff but it was given to me by a military recruiter) and it’s ridiculously easy
I’m a pretty average inteligence guy and this was in my last year of high school
Basically I’m tryna say I think they’re above the average military intelligence but not above the average person intelligence
Obviously idk for usre though
@@samstromberg5593 You have your opinion, and I have mine, and it would be interesting to actually read studies that discuss this.
However, I think it’s funny that you think someone who scores highly in the ASVAB is NOT above an average level of intelligence for society in general.
So, are you saying that the majority of enlisted personal are of a lower IQ than the majority of people who choose not to go into the military?
Have you listened to any psychologists on YouTube, or read any articles discussing IQ levels, and what the average IQ is for students entering university programs in the STEM fields?
There has been a trend over the last 20 years or so, for people to say that anyone can do anything if they just try hard enough, and I know many people believe that, but it’s not true IMO (- all else being equal).
Going back to the ASVAB and IQ levels, during the buildup push in the Vietnam War, the military was having a hard time obtaining enough bodies to drop into the jungles with M-16’s, so SECDEF McNamara lowered the ASVAB threshold down to 65 or thereabouts, instead of leaving at the normal cutoff levels, and this is reflected in the character of Pvt Pyle in the movie, Full Metal Jacket.
This lowered IQ (ASVAB) standard was known as, Project 100,00, and aka: McNamara’s Folly, McNamara’s Morons, or McNamara’s Misfits, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_100,000
So you mean to tell me that green berets go harder at learning a foreign language than I go at learning to be “willing”…?
Willing to do personal house chores no doubt!
Wow
I’m humbled!
There was this girl I had met but that beside the point
I’m trying to learn Karen or more important Karenii
She speaks Karenii so she said
Sounds horrific the politics with their situation but for me
I can’t find this language anywhere
I get the impression that Olly doesn’t plan on taking skydiving lessons anytime soon.
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Ich glaube daran, dass ich bereits mindestens dreimal Videos über dieses Thema angeschauen habe 🙂 Vielleich finde ich etwas Neues. Danke im Voraus.
8 hours everyday! Exhausting is putting it lightly. I couldn’t imagine even though I love learning languages. Fantastic Video
Glad you enjoyed it!
Want to see how the French Foreign Legion teaches languages? 👉
https://youtu.be/KBZxE_RUabM
I’d quite like to see Hungarian added to Story Learning 🙁 can you make it happen?
I thought this was a “how you can learn a language fast by how the army does it” kind of thing.
I haven’t finished the video yet, but I’m going to assume that a highly structured, disciplined environment with excellent instructors is what helps. They are also getting paid for it, so it isn’t just a hobby or side interest for them.
Green beret chronicles, Valhalla training, SRS. All the best channels. This is definitely a sign
Maybe, they are better than others at language learning because they do it as part of their job but not in free time and being tired after a job?
5:18 you have to take this test in my highschool if you want to study in the bilingual section
Great video. Amazing research on your part.
Thanks for making these kind of videos. They always motivate me to study.
That’s awesome.
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Love your videos, very informative and enjoyable.
Nice tips, Olly, i’m started learning Turkish and i want to apply them.
Thanks, friend
Teşekkür ederim, mahalli 👏👏🇹🇷
It’s too interesting. I was watching your YouTube videos the whole day.