Polyglot Who Speaks 20 Languages Reveals His Formula
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🗓️ 5 February 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Patrick Bet-David has a virtual sit-down with polyglot Steve Kaufmann who understands over 20 languages. In this interview they talk about the benefits of knowing multiple languages, how to learn a language fast and the similarities between languages.
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| 0:00.0 | Whether it's languages or business, you got to connect, you got to connect emotion while |
| 0:06.7 | you're negotiating in the evening when you go out and have dinner with them, drink the beer |
| 0:11.6 | with them. And language learning is all about enthusiasm, curiosity, enthusiasm, motivation. |
| 0:16.8 | In fact, you need to get the language in you first through massive listening and reading |
| 0:21.6 | so that then grammar explanations might start to make sense to you. You can't start with |
| 0:26.2 | the grammar. |
| 0:27.2 | You guys want to take the time to learn our language. Maybe he's going to be more detailed |
| 0:30.9 | about working with us. |
| 0:31.9 | I think the biggest thing about speaking languages is that more opportunities are going to |
| 0:36.2 | come your way. It makes it easier to communicate with people, to persuade people, to establish |
| 0:41.4 | relationships with people. And we all know that in business, communications, relationships |
| 0:46.6 | are extremely important. |
| 0:51.9 | My guess today is a polyguide. Now for some of you guys I may say I don't know what that |
| 0:56.2 | means. That means he speaks a lot of languages. And by the way, nearly 20 languages, I think |
| 1:01.4 | he learned Russian in his 60s just because he wanted to learn Russian in his 60s. And |
| 1:06.2 | today, he's in the process of learning Farsi and Arabic. Maybe we'll get him to say a few |
| 1:11.6 | of these languages. And he's got a system on how he learns languages. And it's very unique |
| 1:16.4 | and we're going to talk about that. He's also the founder of Link. I think him and his son |
| 1:19.2 | together founded Link with that being said, my guess today is Steve Kaufman. Steve, |
| 1:23.8 | thank you so much for being a guest on that attainment. My pleasure. My pleasure. Looking |
| 1:28.0 | forward. Let me ask you. So I speak four languages and a little bit of German, but I speak |
| 1:33.2 | German because I lived in Germany for two years at a refugee camp. I speak Farsi because |
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