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| PaulLambeth Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5358 days ago 244 posts - 315 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Icelandic, Hindi, Irish | Message 137 of 221 24 April 2010 at 11:18pm | IP Logged | |||||
I have to agree with you here. His videos can be very useful to watch but I often struggle to watch an entire video and there's a lot of stumbling and repetition with the presentation. Not that I'd be any better making videos myself, but I prefer watching the video style of someone like glossika or ProfASAr. However, few Youtube polyglots are so open and responsive to so many users. I'd hate for him to lose this edge. As you mentioned, when he presents his resources they often turn out to be very useful. It's just a pity I'm not learning/planning to learn any (I think) of the languages he's learning at the moment. I'm struggling enough as it is to find good resources for Icelandic, so I can see how valuable videos like this must be for people learning rarer languages. Either way, the volume of his output into the community is ridiculously high and of decent quality (he knows what he's talking about and is learning languages for great personal reasons) and for that he can only be thanked! 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Smart Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5324 days ago 352 posts - 398 votes Speaks: Spanish, English*, Latin, French Studies: German | Message 138 of 221 24 April 2010 at 11:30pm | IP Logged | |||||
Exactly, I agree that ProfAsar and glossika have an excellent style that more Polyglots should use or mirror. :) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Splog Diglot Senior Member Czech Republic anthonylauder.c Joined 5654 days ago 1062 posts - 3263 votes Speaks: English*, Czech Studies: Mandarin | Message 139 of 221 25 April 2010 at 12:05pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Moses has his own style, and it is great to see his passion and accomplishments. The fact that he is entirely self-taught is admirable and inspiring. If he were to copy the more formal and academic style of, say, Professor Arguelles of Glossika I fear he would lose his authenticity.
We wouldn't expect to tell the Beatles they should copy Bach because he was more formal. The great thing about youtube is that the viewer decides what they watch, and if you don't like the style of a particular speaker you can just turn to other channels where you feel more comfortable. Personally, I subscribe to the channel of all three of these just-mentioned polyglots, and admire and enjoy each of them for different reasons. If they started to be homogeneous I feel we would lose something. Edited by Splog on 25 April 2010 at 12:07pm 4 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Po-ru Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5465 days ago 173 posts - 235 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: Korean, Spanish, Norwegian, Mandarin, French | Message 140 of 221 04 June 2010 at 5:05pm | IP Logged | |||||
hey are you referring to the FLRR technique ? i'm just curious. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Po-ru Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5465 days ago 173 posts - 235 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: Korean, Spanish, Norwegian, Mandarin, French | Message 141 of 221 07 July 2010 at 5:53pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Moses, I am also wondering if you keep track of your language study records? Like how
much you do, when, and what language. I'd think it'd be more than interesting for your followers to take a look at something like that. 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| FrauLola Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5241 days ago 5 posts - 8 votes Speaks: Japanese*, English Studies: German, Russian, Swedish | Message 142 of 221 14 July 2010 at 5:13am | IP Logged | |||||
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I subscribe to his channel on youtube also. I am just starting to watch his FLR technique video and it is very interesting. In part because this is kind of the method I've been trying to use with learning languages... but just not so well thought out. I'm very grateful that he is sharing all of this on Youtube with us... for FREE. That's what I like about Youtube and also blogs. When people use it for such a wonderful purpose.
Maybe one day there will be a Youtube only for foreign language learning and linguistics to cut out all the junk and clutter. One can always dream. :) Well, I'll end by encouraging Moses, and yourself professor, to keep up the great work. And thanks for sharing your knowledge and tips with the rest of us aspiring polyglots. Spasiba! *EDIT* I also would like to know what Po-ru (above) is asking! I actually saw the professors video on this method and have been using it for the past few days. It's quite exciting. I'm actually working on a blog right now and will be posting my study logs for anyone interested/bored. :) Edited by FrauLola on 14 July 2010 at 5:31am 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| loveroflanguage Groupie United States Joined 5351 days ago 57 posts - 83 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Arabic (Egyptian) | Message 143 of 221 14 August 2010 at 9:57pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Wow...suddenly, this thread seemed to turn into "testosterone" preening! lol! I don't care whether he can pronounce something perfectly, have an accent or not have an accent, etc. etc. I am just impressed that Moses is a wonderful young man who shares our passion for learning and love of languages. Who could not love that? How many 20-somethings can we look at in our daily lives that are doing that? (I'm not talking about on here, that would be cheating! lol!) Most are at the bar, out with the guys, screwing around or not even thinking of something connected with learning at all--unless it was the latest video game. Can't we just be happy for him and encourage him to continue?
He has dedicated a lot of time and energy to doing and sharing something he loves and I don't believe once did he say he was an expert on anything? :o) I think that it is indeed admirable what he has accomplished and I hope that if he does turn his focus onto more direct learning of a language or three or five; wow, would be awesome! I just love that he is sharing at all. Speaking as a Black person, he is doing something no one in my hood would EVER do or be motivated enough to try. He gets my kudos for that ALONE. We don't have enough young black people motivated to achieve higher learning, period; so to see him just getting his thing on, is a BIG motivation to me and I hope to other young people I plan to show and share his videos with. Moses, you are an inspiration and I hope that you one day will learn enough and decide to teach others languages, especially to the under privileged youth in your city, who don't think they can do anything. My hat's off to you and may you continue to strive and learn! Thanks for the link, Professor, I never would have seen this if you hadn't posted it! 12 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Huliganov Octoglot Senior Member Poland huliganov.tvRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5340 days ago 91 posts - 304 votes Speaks: English*, Polish, French, German, Russian, Spanish, Esperanto, Czech Studies: Romanian, Turkish, Mandarin, Japanese, Hungarian | Message 144 of 221 01 November 2010 at 1:42pm | IP Logged | |||||
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There's more than one way to be a polyglot. Let's allow the not-strictly-true-but-true-enough assumption that the average word in any linguist's portfolio takes the same time to learn, and let's give a value of one minute to that.
One polyglot learns 60,000 words taking 60,000 minutes of his life but these are divided over 60 languages. This Polylot speaks 60 languages with one thousand words in each language. Another has learned 60,000 words taking 60,000 minutes of his life, but these words are concentrated into 4 languages. He speaks 4 languages with 15,000 words in each language. Questions. 1. Which of these two polyglots has learned more language? 2. Which is the greater linguist and polyglot? 3. Who worked harder? 4. Who has the greater achievement? 5. Who has the more impressive achievement? 6. Who gets more utility from his work? Anyone who can answer these questions, kindly go ahead. Because I can't. Edited by Huliganov on 01 November 2010 at 1:46pm 18 persons have voted this message useful |
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