Has anyone seen this dude before? He seems like a very accomplished polyglot with some quite interesting learning ideas. He speaks Italian, Sicilian, English, French, Spanish, Mandarin, Japanese and Greek.
He says that Italian and Sicilian are his native languages, but judging by his absolute command of British idiomatic English and his accent, I would bet my last pair of shoes that he spent time in the south-east of England as a child - possibly the child of an immigrant family?
Very impressive! This man focusses on speaking the language beginning with every day situations of his life. I’d like to know what is Steve’s opinion on this method.
He is brilliant! I was smiling when he was talking about repeating all those words in your languages. I often go around the house speaking random things in German / French / Urdu / Italian / Welsh / Mandarin. I think I drive my husband crackers sometimes. I think I’ll be following this guy. I love hearing from polyglots. His Mandarin accent is incredible too! I wonder how distinct Sicilian is from Italian? … off I go on a trip to wikipedia…
Metatron? Raffaello? Of course I know him. He’s mostly famous for his videos about ancient weapons, armor, etc. His is not a “polyglot” channel.
He’s a nice guy and has interesting material in his channel but his “name what you eat” learning strategy doesn’t really impress me.
It’s a different language to be sure and it happens to have some Spanish influence, btw! But It’s definitely closer to standard Italian than Spanish is.
He admits himsels that his (modern) Greek is at beginner’s level and that he can speak more readily about ancient gods and battles than he can order a meal
Coincidentally, I just subscribed to him a few days ago and have watched a lot of his videos since. To my knowledge, he has lived in England but not as a child; I think he moved there to study. He’s also a professional linguist and an orientalist, and has lived in Japan for quite some time studying Japanese history.
unrelated question but how do you explain that so many polyglots’ level of French happens to be quite bad? I can only think of Luca Lamp and Steve who speak great French.
“…but judging by his absolute command of British idiomatic English and his accent, I would bet my last pair of shoes that he spent time in the south-east of England as a child…”
Thank you. I think you could be right because he said, in French, that “…when I lived/stayed in Manchester…”.
That’s interesting. I didn’t detect any Manchester accent. If he hadn’t told me his first langauge was Italian, I would have thought he was a British native speaker from somewhere between South-East London and the coast. (Not that I’m an expert in accents…)
