Very impressive. The part that amazes me is that he knows very different languages. Before I started the video, I expected that they were going to be largely related languages.
I speak English and Ukrainian. I've also picked up a little bit of French and Spanish from travelling. Not enough to hold a conversation, but enough to order food & drink and get the gist of what people are talking about in many cases. I figure with a bit of effort, I would be able to learn a fair number of European languages given the base that I already have. It is the Asian and African languages that are so ridiculously foreign to me. Given his diverse base of languages, it will be pretty easy for him to double that number. This will take him much less time than it took him to get to this point.
He is clearly not learning languages just to have a large number of numbers in which he is fluent. He could easily add related languages such as Spanish or Polish, but instead he is learning unique languages from all over the world.
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