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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 1 of 79 11 March 2013 at 1:17am | IP Logged |
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Hey guys, have you seen the last video of Benny in his Egyptian Arabic mission? For those who don't know, he spent 3 months studying hard Arabic in Brazil (mostly with books and Skype lessons), then he went to Egypt and spent another 2/3 months traveling there and trying to live the real Egyptian experience. He's been to a lot of places like Cairo, Aswa, Alexandria, etc., and some days ago he posted the last video of his stay in Egypt (as far as I understood).
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| tiger Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4314 days ago 15 posts - 27 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 2 of 79 15 March 2013 at 11:23am | IP Logged |
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Anybody knows what his new mission is? I subscribed too late I guess. :(
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| tiger Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4314 days ago 15 posts - 27 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 4 of 79 19 March 2013 at 9:29am | IP Logged |
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Okay. So the next mission is Polish in 5 hours. I'm going to unsubscribe now, because this is just plain ridiculous. Of course he's not aiming for the magical F word now, but this is something most of us wouldn't probably even mention on our blogs. And he's having it for his NEXT BIG MISSION?
I liked his blog, not because of his language missions which are pretty easy to mimic, because reaching a B1 level in 3 months is something anyone of us could do with a little Pimsleur, FSI and Assimil. But to read all the interesting articles, but he really stoop low now. Wake me up next year when he's "fluent" in gazillion languages. :( 3 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 5 of 79 19 March 2013 at 9:41am | IP Logged |
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He's having a whole series of minimissions, what's wrong with that? Variety is the spice of life.
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| MultipackCan Newbie Ireland Joined 4283 days ago 20 posts - 28 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Esperanto | Message 6 of 79 19 March 2013 at 11:28am | IP Logged |
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I agree that the new challenge is a little disappointing, but it'll still make for some
pretty interesting short videos although perhaps not great reading. I think he's taken it on for a mixture of reasons. 1. He has taken on a full time job in Berlin, so he doesn't have the time to prepare for a new mission like he has had previously. 2. As said above, he's probably trying to mix it up. 3. He's probably trying to save some money up, which means that one of his next missions (perhaps later this year) could finally be to take on Russian or Japanese. He's spoken about wanting to do these two for years but has been putting it off because he wants to live in Moscow/Tokyo when he finally gets around to doing these languages, which will of course be difficult on the budget of a blogger. 1 person has 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 7 of 79 19 March 2013 at 1:34pm | IP Logged |
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Besides he also has some 10 existing languages to keep up with. 11 maybe? And revitalising his German of course. Edited by tarvos on 19 March 2013 at 1:34pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| MultipackCan Newbie Ireland Joined 4283 days ago 20 posts - 28 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Esperanto | Message 8 of 79 19 March 2013 at 9:21pm | IP Logged |
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He's dropped languages previously though, Tagalog and Hungarian I think. Probably a
couple of others as well. I haven't been following him for that long. But he is trying to make a living out of this so giving up language learning won't really serve him very well :p 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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