Gosiak Triglot Senior Member Poland Joined 5111 days ago 241 posts - 361 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, German Studies: Norwegian, Welsh
| Message 57 of 121 05 November 2012 at 3:01pm | IP Logged |
The link does not work (404 error). Could you give more details?
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tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4692 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 58 of 121 05 November 2012 at 3:31pm | IP Logged |
It was still working a few minutes ago, probably some kind of error?
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SomeGuy Groupie Germany Joined 5085 days ago 56 posts - 75 votes Speaks: German* Studies: Arabic (Written), Turkish, Mandarin
| Message 59 of 121 05 November 2012 at 3:43pm | IP Logged |
try this link
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Gosiak Triglot Senior Member Poland Joined 5111 days ago 241 posts - 361 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, German Studies: Norwegian, Welsh
| Message 60 of 121 05 November 2012 at 3:49pm | IP Logged |
@tarvos: Thank you for your reply.
@SomeGuy: This one works. The former one sent me to their main site, thanks.
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pesahson Diglot Senior Member Poland Joined 5713 days ago 448 posts - 840 votes Speaks: Polish*, English Studies: French, Portuguese, Norwegian
| Message 61 of 121 09 November 2012 at 3:23pm | IP Logged |
Luca posted a new video. Another conversation recorded in Poznań. Starring: Luca Lampariello, Richard Simcott and Susanna Zaraysky. Highly recommended.
How and why polyglots don't confuse languages
Edited by pesahson on 11 November 2012 at 5:55pm
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justonelanguage Diglot Groupie United States Joined 4447 days ago 98 posts - 128 votes Speaks: English, Spanish
| Message 62 of 121 28 November 2012 at 10:54pm | IP Logged |
The only two languages I can rate are his English and Spanish. Both are very good, close to native-level, either a C1 or C2.
His skills are no parlor trick either, as he spends like 2 years on each language. It's hard work and he definitely puts in the time and effort to know his languages so well.
However, I think there is too much hyperbole on this site about foreigners speaking "perfect." I don't think I would ever mistake him for a native speaker in English or Spanish, though there is nothing wrong with that. IMHO, perfection shouldn't be the goal, as it would take literally like 10-20 years to reach a VERY high level in a foreign language.
In Spanish he spoke very fluidly and talking to him would be effortless. His accent was particularly good, sounds Spanish. That said, I noticed one or two mistakes with the imperfect vs. Preterite, I believe. Another thing was he said "caseta" to refer to "cassette." "Caseta" actually means kennel, so while an easily made mistake, it is still an error. Also he said "comunicar" instead of "comunicarse". Not perfect as some would say but VERY good and he should be bvery proud of his abilities!
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Have a look on this video and please comment his fluency.
I can say that his English is perfect, so his french and his Spanish .
http://www.youtube .com/w atch?v =L3w8y HrqFiQ |
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pesahson Diglot Senior Member Poland Joined 5713 days ago 448 posts - 840 votes Speaks: Polish*, English Studies: French, Portuguese, Norwegian
| Message 63 of 121 02 December 2012 at 3:04pm | IP Logged |
New video on Luca's channel. Multilingual interview with Jens Oprita.
Good stuff
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tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4692 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 64 of 121 02 December 2012 at 4:06pm | IP Logged |
I don't speak any of the Romance languages besides French, but I did listen to the
Italian and the Portuguese. He seems to speak most of his languages well (and
surprisingly Jens seems least confident in English...)
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