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| fabriciocarraro Hexaglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Brazil russoparabrasileirosRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4714 days ago 989 posts - 1454 votes  Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishB2, Italian, Spanish, Russian, French Studies: Dutch, German, Japanese | Message 145 of 204 14 August 2012 at 1:33am | IP Logged | |||||
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Guys, don't feed the trolls =)
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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4706 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 146 of 204 14 August 2012 at 8:38pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Tim's French sounds pretty good!
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| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5333 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 147 of 204 14 August 2012 at 9:19pm | IP Logged | |||||
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But he has not said that he speaks 23 languages, has he? I listened to a video he did with Luca, and I
seem to recall that he said he spoke/was fluent in 4 or 5 and as for the rest he was still in some stage of the learning process. Media want the high figures and put the polyglots on a pedestal then people tear them down again. Unavoidable, perhaps, but must the tearing down be done by us? I thought we were more about supporting eachother. We are better than this. 8 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Anonymouser Newbie Antarctica Joined 4922 days ago 4 posts - 5 votes | Message 148 of 204 14 August 2012 at 9:34pm | IP Logged | |||||
Do you actually think his videos are staged? What makes you think so? And is there any way it could be proven to you that Tim actually speaks some of that languages without him meeting you eye to eye? Your post could be copypasted in every other thread about "Youtube polyglots" or internet polyglots generally. I once again managed to click on "Useful" insted on "quoute". I actually don't find your comment useful, though I agree it is heatlhy to be skeptical. For reminding me that I thank you. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| portunhol Triglot Senior Member United States thelinguistblogger.w Joined 6251 days ago 198 posts - 299 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: German, Arabic (classical) | Message 149 of 204 14 August 2012 at 9:48pm | IP Logged | |||||
I couldn't agree more! After multiple, rigorous debates, we've made it quite clear that we cannot all agree on what fluent means or even what it means to speak a language. What that says to me is that we are unable to effectively identify who is and who isn't a real polyglot. What I think we are VERY good at is encouraging one another and sharing tips and resources. Let's stick to what we're good at.
I really think this is a great policy to follow here and I applaud Fabricio for making the suggestion. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4706 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 150 of 204 14 August 2012 at 9:58pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Guys, if someone posts blatant nonsense, hit the report and not the reply button. Better
to do that and laugh than be sad/outraged. 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
 meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5966 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map | Message 151 of 204 14 August 2012 at 10:04pm | IP Logged | |||||
Yes, please report and don't respond if you see a problem. It helps to keep a thread clean and useful, because otherwise a lot of messages written in response might need to be deleted also, just to keep the discussion clear. Thanks for your help! 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| languagenerd09 Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom youtube.com/user/Lan Joined 5099 days ago 174 posts - 267 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Mandarin, Japanese, Thai | Message 152 of 204 22 October 2012 at 2:47am | IP Logged | |||||
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I'm still amazed by his talent and he obviously has a keen passion for learning languages
and at his age I could speak Spanish, conversational basic French and knew one or two words in Russian and that was it, so I take my hat off to him and admittedly hold up my hands and say that he is very very good and to be fluent in 4 or 5 languages at that age is very commendable ... 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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