SomaliNet Forums

Funny video. This guy speaks many languages.

This guy is such a creep, his interaction with the black guy was hella funny, how he was trying to figure out where he was from, guessing ghana, then speaking french with him when he said he is from Benin, he has alot of knowledge about different cultures and nations, seems like a cool guy. but definitely creepy.

Adali wrote:This guy is such a creep, his interaction with the black guy was hella funny, how he was trying to figure out where he was from, guessing ghana, then speaking french with him when he said he is from Benin, he has alot of knowledge about different cultures and nations, seems like a cool guy. but definitely creepy.

There's nothing creepty about it. He's just having casual conversations and not asking for numbers, picking up, or harrasing people.
He might be unusual, but not creepy.

What is amazing is how many languages he speaks from so many different language families. It's very difficult to do that. Mad skills.

He is very talented, if he can speak that many languages.

@12 minute mark.

ahh snap i didnt see that part, the Somali granddad saying he will teach him in 2 days Somali.

At the end (min 35) there is this Dhulo woman teaching him about Khaatumo state, lolz.

I actually speak 3 languages on a native level, Somali, English and Danish ! I can also understand Norwegian and Swedish easily. I learned Arabic, Spanish and German in school from a early age, and my level of German is definitely much better than his Somali.
I did this without being a creep haha.

Adali wrote:I actually speak 3 languages on a native level, Somali, English and Danish ! I can also understand Norwegian and Swedish easily. I learned Arabic, Spanish and German in school from a early age, and my level of German is definitely much better than his Somali.
I did this without being a creep haha.

Swedish/Danish/Norwegian are the same language essentially. Only for political reasons classified as different languages.

Just dialects of Norse.

Serbian/Bosnian/Crotian and Dutch/Afrikaans are also the same language, but for political reasons considered different.

I can't believe he speaks Vietnamese. That is one difficult language to learn. It sounds really bad too. When some of my neighbors are arguing it sounds like cats in heat.

Adali wrote:I actually speak 3 languages on a native level, Somali, English and Danish ! I can also understand Norwegian and Swedish easily. I learned Arabic, Spanish and German in school from a early age, and my level of German is definitely much better than his Somali.
I did this without being a creep haha.

Too bad you not cadaan...then we will be impressed. A somali can speak 5 languages we brush it off.....but a white guy says couple words in Somali and we get excited.

Prlnce wrote:

Adali wrote:I actually speak 3 languages on a native level, Somali, English and Danish ! I can also understand Norwegian and Swedish easily. I learned Arabic, Spanish and German in school from a early age, and my level of German is definitely much better than his Somali.
I did this without being a creep haha.

Too bad you not cadaan...then we will be impressed. A somali can speak 5 languages we brush it off.....but a white guy says couple words in Somali and we get excited.

It's universal, people get happy that a foreigner took his time to learn our mother tongue.
I get the same reaction from elders as a kid that I can speak much better somali than many of my peers my age

The guy in the video is African American btw. Soo it's major fail on your part

Turbulence wrote:I can't believe he speaks Vietnamese. That is one difficult language to learn. It sounds really bad too. When some of my neighbors are arguing it sounds like cats in heat.

The worst languages I have ever heard are Vietnamese, Thai, Malaysian, Indonesian. It's sounds like people speaking Chinese but the video is buffering "Ara' Ba' rabap' chin' cho'c chan'"

TheMightyNomad wrote:

Prlnce wrote:

Adali wrote:I actually speak 3 languages on a native level, Somali, English and Danish ! I can also understand Norwegian and Swedish easily. I learned Arabic, Spanish and German in school from a early age, and my level of German is definitely much better than his Somali.
I did this without being a creep haha.

Too bad you not cadaan...then we will be impressed. A somali can speak 5 languages we brush it off.....but a white guy says couple words in Somali and we get excited.

It's universal, people get happy that a foreigner took his time to learn our mother tongue.
I get the same reaction from elders as a kid that I can speak much better somali than many of my peers my age

The guy in the video is African American btw. Soo it's major fail on your part

Toddlers who have developmental delay are supposed to be encouraged. So i'm not surprised elders made a big deal about you speaking your own mother tongue.

Prlnce wrote:

Adali wrote:I actually speak 3 languages on a native level, Somali, English and Danish ! I can also understand Norwegian and Swedish easily. I learned Arabic, Spanish and German in school from a early age, and my level of German is definitely much better than his Somali.
I did this without being a creep haha.

Too bad you not cadaan...then we will be impressed. A somali can speak 5 languages we brush it off.....but a white guy says couple words in Somali and we get excited.

What a silly comparison. Adali technically only speaks 4 languages ('Norse', English, Somali, German). The first two are because of his environment (presumably he lives in Scandinavia), the other is his home language, and only the last one he probably put in an effort. That is in no way as impressive as a native born American who picked up Mandarin, French, Vietnamese, Somali, Spanish, Japanese etc.