#irishpolyglot

[marathon-des-langues]

Love this saying, thanks #fluentin3months #bennylewis #irishpolyglot 🤙

[wonkistan]

We've covered Benny "irishpolyglot" Lewis before, but this video is a whole new beast, bringing 17 polyglot YouTubers together for a charming, multilingual interpretation of 2012's most catchy pop song.

Read profiles of each of the participants here. We especially appreciate the inclusion of Tim Doner (@PolyglotPal on YouTube), who is seventeen years old and has different degrees of fluency in some 20 languages, including Arabic and Persian. Ivan is working hard to build his Persian and maintain his Arabic, so his resolution for this week is to finally get on italki or Verbling and find engaged, committed conversation partners.

If you want to learn more about the fascinating, bizarre polyglot subculture that's boomed through the internet, you should read Michael Erard's Babel No More.

(And no, this isn't jumping the shark. Call Me Maybe is forever.)

A quick notice: Wonkistan may slow down a bit over the next week or so. Wish Amanda and Ivan luck with finals and end-of-the-year work obligations, respectively.

[wonkistan]

Noted madman Benny Lewis (@irishpolyglot, which is pleasantly symmetrical to @slavicpolymath) is going to Brazil in order to learn Egyptian Arabic through French. You officially have zero excuses for delaying work on your target language.

You can read much more about his rationale and his fearlessness on his blog.