Comments by "alukuhito" (@alukuhito) on "Exposing YouTube's FAKE POLYGLOTS and their Lies" video.

  1. It's unfortunate when people fool themselves into believing that they can speak a language well, when they can't. I had a friend like that in Japan. He had been in Japan many years, like me, yet he made really super basic mistakes. He lived in a small town and instead of using it to his advantage to really immerse himself in Japanese, he took advantage of the fact that there weren't many other native English speakers around, so he stood out. He liked to stick out. His Japanese wasn't totally bad, but his assessment of his own Japanese was way off. He had even promised his wife that he would be in Japan to really immerse himself in the language and culture so that he could come out as a professional translator or college professor of Japanese in the USA. His poor wife was waiting for him in another country while he just sat around, taught low-level English classes here and there, got on the phone with his family and friends in the USA, hung out with some of the lowest forms of native-English-speaking life in Japan, etc. He wouldn't even touch a video like this. It would offend him too much. "How dare they talk as if they understand language learning! I know language learning." He was so egotistical. Glad he's not been around me the past couple of years.
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