The Carpet Cleaner Who Learned 24 Languages
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Vaughn Smith is an ordinary guy with an ordinary job. He cleans carpets in Washington DC. Nothing unusual… except for one thing… He speaks 24 languages. Most people struggle to learn even one new language…How on earth did a carpet cleaner learn 24?! Scientists were so baffled, they even scanned his brain! His story is anything but ordinary. In this video, you’ll discover what drives him to learn so many languages, how exactly he does it, and what his brain scan revealed about language learning. Oh, and if you think 24 is impressive… turns out, that’s just the beginning!
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⏱ TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Vaughn Smith: regular guy who speaks 24 languages
0:36 Who is Vaugh Smith?
3:19 The kid who didn’t fit in
6:39 A turning point in Vaughn’s life
9:19 What makes Vaugh different
10:35 Vaughn’s reasons for learning so many languages
12:37 Vaughn starts chasing languages
16:43 The brain scan
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I just realised this guy unlocked Europe, they say if you know two Slavic languages or two Romance languages you can communicate with any speaker at least partialy, this guy knows almost all Slavic languages and that is bassicaly unlocked communication wit all Slavic world
Fun fact: he has an Armenian word tattooed on his arm (“anmah”, meaning “who doesn’t die”) but he doesn’t speak it 😊
Vaughn being a hyperpolyglot gives him quite a unique market niche. A carpet cleaner that can talk to almost any customer in their language? One of a kind!
If you believe a man like this is just a carpet cleaner. This man is probably a spy.perfect cover as a carpet cleaner.
I’m American, and learned a bunch of German from KMFDM and Rammstein. I learned some Russian and a fair amount of Spanish from coworkers (I’m a bartender). Im not fluent in anything but English, but I’ve got pieces of Spanish(passible in slow conversations), Russian(same, but slightly less), and then some German and a little Hindi. Plus a few words in French. I love languages, and i tend to pick them up quickly, but never fully committed to a second language to become fluent. If i had to choose it would be Russian, maybe Spanish. I’d really like to learn more Hindi too; I just haven’t had as much interaction to learn from.
LOL! 🤣🤣🤣I’m sorry if you’re insulted by this, but this is absolutely classic!! I literally laughed out loud when I read this. Everyone else watched this video with fascination and came to the comments to express amazement about the man in the video – his brilliant talent, his brilliant attitude and his brilliant humbleness. What an amazing man! But it’s absolutely CLASSIC that here’s an American person who didn’t even reference the video at all, showing no interest in the video or the man in any way, but came to the comments ONLY to talk about himself! If there’s an epitome of why most of the world dislikes American culture, than THIS right here is it!! 😂
@fransmith3255 Not that I owe you an explanation, Fran Smith and numbers, but I did that elsewhere in other comments. Doing all those things you mentioned. I’m glad you were able to smile emoji though, whatever country you come from (don’t care).
@@JELazarus Hehe, it wasn’t meant to be an insult. Just an observation. It’s good to see people learning different languages and learning about other countries and cultures. 🙂 Thumbs up! 🙂
@@fransmith3255 And peace and Cheers to you as well. 🤝 I agree.
Thank you, amazing! I would love to have a chat with him.
I love that Vaughn’s motivation for learning languages is all about relationship. Relationship with other people and relationship with the language itself. That’s the part of his story I find most impressive
The perfect spy: cleaning carpets in foreign embassies.
This was exactly my thought 😅
Thanks Olly, your course really helped me. I started with your course and now can read newspapers in French easily after a year. I can now call myself trilingual. I’m thinking 🤔 of my next language to learn…
The weird thing for me, is when I’m learning a new language, and then get to the point where I am reading it, but it just seems like I’m reading English…like I just read and comprehend it as fast as reading English. I remember getting surprised one time, that I read a bunch of sentences and later realized it wasn’t English. 😅
That is so cool I feel like I’m creeping up on that moment but I still think I have a little way to go.
What language were you learning at the time that you had that epiphany?
@@alb91878 keep up the good work! You’ll get there! 🤩
I have studied some other languages, but the one I was referring to is my native language of Chickasaw. It’s super under resourced so it’s taken me a long time to get to this point.
What language are you studying?
I’m planning to get back to French at some point…maybe German and a few other languages.
That’s impressive. Especially getting to fluent status in 8 languages.
However, based on that one Icelandic sentence he’s heard mangle at 7:58 , he’s nowhere near being “intermediate” in Icelandic (I am a native Icelander). He might at best be classified as a basic Icelandic speaker.
He even says so himself. His Icelandic sentence literally means “I speak very little Icelandic.” So that kind of calls all the languages in his intermediate category into question.
I’m not trying to belittle his accomplishments. Give credit where credit is due. But there’s no reason to give more credit than is his due.
yeah, the way the whole video is phrased is telling. “He went to visit this place/person, and that’s when he learned in X language”. Should be a video about a guy who’s fluent in 8 languages, which is already impressive. Instead we get a clickbait title from a person who calls himself a linguist, which I’m pretty sure every actual linguist would disagree with.
But was he any good at cleaning carpets?
He learned to speak Hungarian? 😮
I’m impressed that he can speak Latvian. My language is no joke. it’s mega hard. Even for locals it’s hard to be perfect in it.😀
If you believe a man like this is just a carpet cleaner. This man is probably a spy.perfect cover as a carpet cleaner.
where can i get vaughns lessons on learning languages??
This guy is missing out on a great opportunity to work as a spy 😂😂😂
This guy’s brain is special; I have to struggle to learn a new language poorly.
Each language does really have a soul!
First time I’ve heard someone realising that language is the soul of a people. Love why he learns them. He feels the essence. No ego here love it!