Trevor Noah’s WEIRD Tricks to Learn ANY Language FAST
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Trevor Noah can mimic any accent in the world, even yours! But did you know he also speaks 6 languages—without ever taking a single grammar lesson?? Turns out the key to learning a language isn’t about grammar at all, but something else entirely!
In this video, I’ll show you how Trevor uses accents, immersion and humour to pick up languages naturally. You’ll learn his exact secrets for breaking through the barriers that hold most people back.
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0:00 Trevor Noah’s Amazing Language Skills
0:46 Born Multilingual
2:00 Survival and Sounds
3:37 Trevor’s Mom
7:27 The Accent Secret
10:57 Immersion, Trevor-Style
14:53 Code-Switching
18:14 Laughter is the Best Teacher
19:27 The “Fluency” Twist
20:21 Your Chameleon Brain
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You need to learn to click that “X” in Xhosa 😂🤣😂
Two of the Xhosa clicks are easy for English (not American) speakers. X is the side click that you use to get a horse to move: X, X, X & it will get into motion. C is the same as the disapproving sound an adult will make when a child mildly misbehaves, or you hear mildly bad news. In books, it’s written tsk, tsk. That’s C, C, C. The Q is different, up in the top of the palate.
@harrispinkham No need to laugh. That why people are embarrassed to try speaking languages because they’re afraid they will be laughed at.
@@carolannhartley359 The hard part for non-South Africans is a smooth transition from the click to the consonant — a bit of mouth coordination, so it’ll take ’em lots of practise! 😉
@@ntatenarin dude I find the clicks in Xhosa so hard! My friend taught me in high school that it’s not Khosa but Xhosa (emphasis on the click) and I’m sure I’m still not doing it right. Laughing more out of empathy than at him.
Thinking the same thing watching this. This first click / at the beginning of a word is the easiest to do as an english speaker.
It helps a lot if you’re a good mimic. Not everyone is. Trevor is a brilliant mimic.
I think the two come together, hand on hand.
It would be interesting to hear code switching between Afrikaans and Dutch.
There are a few of us South Africans living in the Netherlands, so have a look at the Easy Dutch video How Similar Are Afrikaans and Dutch? | Easy Dutch Special 4 for some examples.
I couldn’t have clicked on this FAST enough! I’ve been watching a lot of Trevor’s interviews and have always been curious about his language learning journey! Thanks Ollie 🙌🏾 ⚡️ спасибо братан)
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As a fellow South African we love Trevor Noah he’s a national treasure 🇿🇦❤️
He’s fantastic!
Trevor Noah is kinda cringe sometimes
@@duckymomo7935Yes,he is
I think I got the non-travel-immersion idea from this channel. Now instead of having English language podcasts or TV on in the background I will put on a German language YouTube video and just let it roll while I’m doing what I’m doing. Unlike when I’m actively learning, I do not try to actually follow the conversation, or take notes. It helps to get a better feel for rhythm. Even if I don’t understand the full conversation, it really helps reinforce my use of words I already know just by hearing them in context.
That’s super cool! Well done.
“jou ma se mixed race” had me absolutely rolling
Right?!
I grew up bilingual with German and Turkish and when we talk among us we often throw the word that comes to mind first into our talk. It is not every time the same language but a mix. I don´t know if that is good or bad.
I always feel like it is easier to keep within one language with those that were added later like English, French or Spanish.
To make it easy for my kids many things we watched we did in English and the teacher always pointed that out that my kids have a bigger vocabulary than their peers in school and asked my why that is.
You know what is wild.. A few days ago I wondered if learning an accent would help in any way of learning a language. Then BAM this video came out!
WRT different personalities with different languages, I had found myself using a much upbeat and happier tone when using Brasilian Portuguese, a much lower and stoic tone when using my very poor level of Polish, a higher tone with Cantonese…
When I went to the Polish market a few months ago, I had noticed that the tone that I was using was a much lower tone when compared to my English.
I dont mind being an “idiot” in italian or polish, each for bit different reason (italian- italians really appreciate it and they are generous with foreigners speaking their langage, polish- I love it because its funny language for me and polish also appreciate it and they know that their language is already difficult, so they are forgiving. And who wouldnt like to learn funny language.) But German …. I feel like.. You either speak with perfect grammar or dont brother at all. Germans rather switch convo to English than to let you butcher their language in their presence. 😐
…so I Guess I have to learn it on my own by immersion at home…
This was very interesting! I had no idea that Trevor Noah spoke multiple languages! But that lovely face in the mirror always judges!! 😅
Trevor Noah
Roger Federer
Thabo Sefolosha
all half Swiss-half South Aftican guys who made it in their fields… crazy 😀
I speak three languages and three I speak enough of to survive on a vacation. The three I speak, I had 24/7 immersion as a child, and I speak them without accent. Or rather, I can speak them with the accent of the region I was in and am able to imitate accents if I hear them enough in these languages. Two I learned in school and university and passed the class just so and forgot most of it right after. And the sixth is a passion project, because I love TV shows from China and the amount of shows I watched got my brain fired up and I learned quite a bit very quickly with the methods you described here.
As he said in the video, languages’ main intent is communication, so I feel that if you are communicating, you are fine 🙂
I read Trevor’s autobiography – it’s awesome. So I’ve been listening to Italiano videos – cucina e storia – and a lot of words are similar – you just have to relax and hear them – spettacolo! I’m slowly poco a poco picking up the other less obvious words.
20:21 absolutely, 100%. And this alone, is a fascinating thing.
I’m rusty as hell on my Spanish, but my high school teacher was from Catalan which, while not rare, is not the typical dialect you’re gonna learn in your typical Spanish class and it’s kinda amazing how much more forgiving the Spanish speakers I deal with are, than those who “Peggy Hill” it
How did you know I was marathon-watching Trevor‘s videos ?