Everyone Is Floored by This AP Reporter Effortlessly Delivering the News in Six Languages

Philip Crowther, an International Affiliate Correspondent for the Associated Press, has gone viral with a supercut showing him deftly delivering the news in six languages.

Obviously, this feat is not truly “effortless”—it would have taken an enormous amount of effort for Crowther to master so many different languages. But the ease with which he appears to switch between them is incredibly impressive.

As of this writing, the video has racked up nearly 12 million views. It was originally shared by Crowther himself on his own Twitter account because when you have a skill like this, you absolutely deserve to show it off.

Crowther has shared other videos of himself delivering the news in various languages before but maybe it’s the supercut editing that has gotten this one so much attention, or perhaps it’s our desire for a distraction from the growing threat of a Russian invasion of Ukraine—the distressing news Crowther himself is reporting on in the video.

Either way, Crowther’s skills are undeniably impressive. According to his own caption on the video, the languages spoken as he reports from Kyiv, Ukraine are, in order: English, Luxembourgish, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.

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