Video: Eleven Languages Speaker!

Many people in the world try to learn a second language to have better opportunities in the future, some will learn a third language, but do you imagine a man who speaks in 11 languages?

Now, to clear up what the video says, I'll answer some questions about this topic.

1. How many languages does Alex speak?

He speaks 11 languages, and he will probably learn more.

2. Does context help in the process of acquiring a new language?

Of course context helps, if you hear a language every day is much easier to learn it compared to someone who never hears it.

3. Are there any languages that have similar pronunciation?

According to Alex, Spanish pronunciation is similar to the greek's one. Also, Dutch and Afrikaans have some common sounds.

4. Which of the languages spoken by Alex seem more colloquial?

Afrikaans.

5. Is class a more important factor in language variation than geography?

Class can vary from formal to informal or slang, but geography completely changes to different languages, that's why geography is a more important factor.

6. Do you think, the ability of learning a language is innate or learned?

The ability is innate, but you must learn languages. In other words, you have the mental and physical faculties to use language, but you have to learn it first.

7. According to you, are some languages more or less difficult  to learn than others? Talk about your own experience.

I think that the difficulty of a language mainly depends on the languages you already know, because some languages with common roots can have similar structures. Also, some languages have more complex structures (Spanish, for example, has many verbs forms), while others have easier ones. In my own experience, I learnt a bit of Mandarin Chinese. I thought it will be almost impossible to learn it, but I found that it's not that complex at all.