600 Days on Duolingo, Can I Talk to People? — Transcript

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1. 0:00so I've been studying Russian for the
2. 0:01past 550 days in this app called
3. 0:08dualingo a lot of people use dingo
4. 0:10around the world but a lot of people say
5. 0:12that it doesn't actually work that you
6. 0:14can't actually speak with people just by
7. 0:16using dualingo as an on andof dualingo
8. 0:18user of many years I can confidently say
9. 0:20that nothing I learned on dualingo has
10. 0:22stuck in my brain I've decided to test
11. 0:24this theory in a really expensive way I
12. 0:27don't know why I thought this was a good
13. 0:29idea but I'm in Russia I'm going to be
14. 0:31trying to talk to Russian people to test
15. 0:33whether or not dualingo actually works
16. 0:34in real life can I actually communicate
17. 0:36with people or has everybody been
18. 0:39wasting their freaking time and no this
19. 0:40is not sponsored by dingo I'm not making
20. 0:43any money from sponsorships and in
21. 0:45general here are the rules I can't speak
22. 0:48English at all I can't use the internet
23. 0:50I can't use Google Translate and I can't
24. 0:52show anybody photos not these types of
25. 0:55photos I mean photos of actual things
26. 0:56that I'm trying to explain guys I'm
27. 0:58going to be honest I don't know why I
28. 0:59did this
29. 1:00my social anxiety is killing me okay
30. 1:04first things first I'm in the Red Square
31. 1:06so I'm going to ask some people to take
32. 1:08a video of me with this whatever it's
33. 1:11called sorry I'm not educated
34. 1:15enough video video
35. 1:20[Music]
36. 1:32video okay I think that was a success
37. 1:34even though the guy didn't even point at
38. 1:36me but that works so I came specifically
39. 1:39to this street because there's a lot of
40. 1:40cafe shops because I want to review this
41. 1:42review went to order a coffee in Madrid
42. 1:44using my dualingo Spanish accidentally
43. 1:46asked for hot ice the Barista gave me a
44. 1:49cup of confusion with a side of laughter
45. 1:51is it considered a Spanish latte in
46. 1:53Spain or is it just latte anyway let's
47. 1:55find out I'm fast as boy Rusty yeah
48. 2:02[Music]
49. 2:24okay
50. 2:27Cafe ch
51. 2:37that's it
52. 2:39so okay that was cringy as I had to
53. 2:42lie for the sake of this Challenge and I
54. 2:44had to say that I don't speak English
55. 2:46okay I don't know about you guys but I
56. 2:48consider that a success I was able to
57. 2:49explain to the waiter that I wanted a
58. 2:50drink with chocolate that doesn't have
59. 2:52caffeine because I don't like caffeine
60. 2:54it makes me more socially anxious than I
61. 2:56already am I'm already freaking out next
62. 2:59I saw this review and I wanted to test
63. 3:01it out tried using my dualing of French
64. 3:03to find the metro in Paris ended up
65. 3:05asking for the Metro flavor instead of
66. 3:07the metro station got some laughs and
67. 3:09weird glances no directions guess it's
68. 3:11back to the drawing board with those
69. 3:13pronunciation lessons I literally don't
70. 3:15know where the metro station is right
71. 3:16now I know how to say Yu Metro which is
72. 3:19I want a Metro but I want to try to be
73. 3:21more not
74. 3:28stupid for
75. 4:03[Music]
76. 4:10[Music]
77. 4:14Park
78. 4:24[Music]
79. 4:28Park okay
80. 4:53GES ram ram I have made a severe and
81. 4:58iotic lapse of my judgment I asked the
82. 5:01waiter if he knows nice places that I
83. 5:02can go to that are close to this area
84. 5:05and he told me Park go gor
85. 5:08paror I don't know how to say it and I'm
86. 5:11stupid because I didn't ask him how to
87. 5:13go there so I don't know if it's a park
88. 5:15or a monument or what I just know that
89. 5:17it's close so I'm going to try to ask
90. 5:19people where the hell it is maybe I can
91. 5:21ask these people
92. 5:40straight
93. 5:45okay
94. 5:47metro
95. 5:51metro
96. 5:57okay okay I'm assuming this is the m
97. 6:00that the girl was talking about I'm
98. 6:01going to start asking people where this
99. 6:03place is
100. 6:08[Music]
101. 6:49fore
102. 6:52spee w
103. 7:09Metro I was not expecting that so I
104. 7:12don't know if you guys noticed but
105. 7:14throughout this video my Russian is
106. 7:15getting better and that's because so
107. 7:17much of language is about being
108. 7:20confident in yourself being okay with
109. 7:23making mistakes basically guess what I
110. 7:25finally arrived to the station and look
111. 7:27what I found Park
112. 7:31gor gor who decided to name it gor such
113. 7:35a hard word to spell I think that's the
114. 7:39park I'm not sure it might be super
115. 7:41stupid let's
116. 7:49see my Russian is getting better
117. 8:01guys I've never been this excited to be
118. 8:02in a park in my life before I think it's
119. 8:05just the fact that I was able to
120. 8:06communicate with that waiter and to
121. 8:07actually get a recommendation completely
122. 8:10in Russian and to be able to go to that
123. 8:12place because I used the directions that
124. 8:14I got from that girl using my Russian
125. 8:16language that I learned from dualingo
126. 8:18also it's the first time I've seen grass
127. 8:20in a long
128. 8:24time FBI open up does this look weird
129. 8:27guys do I look conspicuous so throughout
130. 8:31my stay in Moscow I've been going to
131. 8:32this Cafe to work and basically there's
132. 8:34this guy that works in the cafe called
133. 8:36timour and he's really friendly he
134. 8:38always says hi and I've become friends
135. 8:40with him so I'm going to have to say
136. 8:41goodbye
137. 8:47[Music]
138. 8:55today du
139. 9:19YouTuber okay that worked so I may not
140. 9:22be the best at Russian especially with 5
141. 9:24to 10 minutes a day but hey I was still
142. 9:26able to create connections and even
143. 9:28friendships with the kind kindest Hearts
144. 9:29along the way sometimes it's all about
145. 9:32the cool people you meet not just the
146. 9:34words you're able to speak now subscribe
147. 9:36cuz this video took a long time and a
148. 9:37lot of money and I'm broke