I Tried Speaking 12 Languages Blindfolded LIVE

Thanks to Saily for sponsoring this video 🌎 Get an exclusive 15% discount on Saily data plans! Use code xiaomanyc at checkout. Download the Saily app or go to https://saily.com/xiaomanyc ⛵ Anyway, in this video I travel to Ohio State University to attempt something I’ve never done before – unscripted conversations with native speakers in 12 languages back-to-back, blindfolded! Language timestamps listed below. A few notes about this video: * I did have some advance time to prepare for this challenge, meaning I knew what the languages were in advance – but I didn’t know the order of speakers or who they were. * What a lot of people don’t understand is that your ability in a given language degrades extremely quickly if you stop using it. So even though I’ve studied 70 languages over many years, because I cannot actively maintain 70 languages on a daily basis, at any given time, without preparation, I can only “speak” a few languages on a whim. Therefore getting 12 languages ready for this challenge simultaneously was one of the most difficult things I’ve ever done. * I originally planned on streaming this video as a live video on YouTube, but we couldn’t make it work in the moment due to technical difficulties. But this lightly edited video does not remove my mistakes and misunderstandings, so you can still get a feel for how good (or bad) I am at these languages in real-time 😓 Big thanks to Dr. Peter Sayer and Dr. Ivan Stefano of Ohio State University’s Multilingual Language Education program for making this happen! 0:00 Introduction 2:40 Speaking 12 languages blindfolded rapid-fire 5:48 Unscripted conversations in 12 languages 5:58 Speaking French 7:45 Speaking Hindi 9:12 Speaking German 11:09 Speaking Indonesian 13:05 Speaking Japanese 14:23 Speaking Chinese 15:57 Speaking Russian 17:57 Speaking Somali 19:37 Speaking Spanish 21:41 Speaking Thai 23:15 Speaking Turkish 25:02 Speaking Yoruba 27:05 Speaking Portuguese LEARN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE WITH MY METHOD! ✉️ Join my newsletter and discover how I pick up new languages quickly (and learn how you can do the same): 👉🏼 https://www.streetsmartlanguages.com/signup 📚 Check out my Street-Smart Language courses: 👉🏼 https://www.streetsmartlanguages.com Subscribe to my channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLNoXf8gq6vhwsrYp-l0J-Q?sub_confirmation=1 Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/xiaomanyc/ Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/xiaomanyc/ If you guys like the music in my videos, you can check out all the AMAZING music Epidemic Sound has at my affiliate link here: http://share.epidemicsound.com/xiaomanyc