JosefWigren Bilingual Hexaglot Newbie Sweden josefwigren.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4626 days ago 9 posts - 35 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English*, Spanish, Japanese, Hindi, Vietnamese Studies: Russian
| Message 65 of 121 12 February 2013 at 5:03pm | IP Logged |
New interesting video by Luca about resources and goals.
Watch here on YouTube
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pesahson Diglot Senior Member Poland Joined 5731 days ago 448 posts - 840 votes Speaks: Polish*, English Studies: French, Portuguese, Norwegian
| Message 66 of 121 16 February 2013 at 6:54pm | IP Logged |
A follow up video to the one posted by Josef.
Luca on memorization and motivation
Edited by pesahson on 16 February 2013 at 10:53pm
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Medulin Tetraglot Senior Member Croatia Joined 4671 days ago 1199 posts - 2192 votes Speaks: Croatian*, English, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Hindi, Nepali
| Message 67 of 121 17 February 2013 at 7:24am | IP Logged |
''The very first thing that I do is TO get hold of a language series I really like.'' (Luca)
I think it sounds more natural without TO.
L2 speakers of English overuse TO: ''What she did was TO run away.''
Edited by Medulin on 17 February 2013 at 7:29am
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jhaberstro Senior Member United States Joined 4396 days ago 112 posts - 154 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, Portuguese
| Message 68 of 121 18 February 2013 at 5:46am | IP Logged |
Medulin wrote:
''The very first thing that I do is TO get hold of a language series I really like.'' (Luca)
I think it sounds more natural without TO.
L2 speakers of English overuse TO: ''What she did was TO run away.'' |
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Both sound equally "natural" to me. I might drop the "to" when speaking casually, but I think if I were trying to speak
more clearly (such as on an education youtube video), I would speak at a slightly slower pace than normal and, as a
result, include the "to".
But, why even bring this up here?
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tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4710 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 69 of 121 18 February 2013 at 12:10pm | IP Logged |
Medulin wrote:
''The very first thing that I do is TO get hold of a language series
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really like.'' (Luca)
I think it sounds more natural without TO.
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Both are equally correct and I don't understand your intention of nitpicking in this
context. Even if Luca made a mistake in his English, this might as well have happened
to you, me, or a native speaker. Natives don't speak flawlessly either.
You can either be envious that someone speaks good English, or you can strive to be at
the same level. The fact that Eric Clapton is a much better guitar player than I am
doesn't mean I should listen to all his youtube videos to detect if he played a bum
note in "Cocaine" somewhere.
Edited by tarvos on 18 February 2013 at 12:12pm
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pesahson Diglot Senior Member Poland Joined 5731 days ago 448 posts - 840 votes Speaks: Polish*, English Studies: French, Portuguese, Norwegian
| Message 70 of 121 24 February 2013 at 3:31pm | IP Logged |
The final part of the conversation
How to be a successful language learner
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Sterogyl Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4370 days ago 152 posts - 263 votes Studies: German*, French, EnglishC2 Studies: Japanese, Norwegian
| Message 71 of 121 23 March 2013 at 4:16pm | IP Logged |
He is a very accomplished polyglot and the learning methods he proposes are realistic.
However, one cannot expect to become as good as him, it HAS to do with talent.
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fabriciocarraro Hexaglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Brazil russoparabrasileirosRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4718 days ago 989 posts - 1454 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishB2, Italian, Spanish, Russian, French Studies: Dutch, German, Japanese
| Message 72 of 121 23 March 2013 at 9:15pm | IP Logged |
Sterogyl wrote:
However, one cannot expect to become as good as him, it HAS to do with talent. |
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I don't really agree with that. I he can do it, I could, you too. I'm just not as disciplined as he is, and that's fine because it's not my goal, at least for now.
Don't think too little of yourself, we all could get there if we spent the same amount of time (and the same methods) Luca spends everyday learning languages.
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