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 8 06 September 2013 at 10:19pm | IP Logged |
Hey fellows!
Yesterday I was on Youtube and I found a compatriot of mine, this nice Brazilian polyglot! He has videos in so many languages!
I can't really judge all of them, but his Russian and Spanish are very good.
Here are some videos:
Russian
Spanish
Indonesian
Ukrainian (after 2 weeks)
Bulgarian (also after 2 weeks)
Catalan
Japanese
Romanian
Hindi
Portuguese backwards
I'm not sure if he's a member here, I hope so!
Edited by fabriciocarraro on 07 September 2013 at 5:15am
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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 2 of 8 07 February 2014 at 5:12pm | IP Logged |
Hey guys!
Jorge made a new multilingual video, now it's all in one video, speaking in 22 languages.
Brazilian polyglot speaking 22 languages
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IlonaS Bilingual Diglot Newbie Russian Federation Joined 3922 days ago 25 posts - 33 votes Speaks: Russian*, Estonian* Studies: Dutch, Norwegian, French, English
| Message 3 of 8 01 March 2014 at 12:39pm | IP Logged |
His Russian are amazing.
He speaks with mistakes, but it sounds very good for a foreigner.
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culebrilla Senior Member United States Joined 3996 days ago 246 posts - 436 votes Speaks: Spanish
| Message 4 of 8 01 March 2014 at 12:51pm | IP Logged |
Very good Spanish. A few mistakes but great flow and confidence in the language, which is to be expected since Portuguese and Spanish are sister languages.
One thing I don't understand is why he is using the vosotros as a South American and since he lived in Venezuela for four years of his childhood. Maybe he stopped speaking it once he returned to Brazil and then had to "restudy" it, choosing the Spanish from Spain? I would have expected him to speak more latin american Spanish, that's all.
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tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4046 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch
| Message 5 of 8 10 April 2014 at 12:20am | IP Logged |
Amazing Italian! I'm impressed!
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Medulin Tetraglot Senior Member Croatia Joined 4667 days ago 1199 posts - 2192 votes Speaks: Croatian*, English, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Hindi, Nepali
| Message 6 of 8 10 April 2014 at 4:17pm | IP Logged |
culebrilla wrote:
Very good Spanish. A few mistakes but great flow and confidence in the language, which is to be expected since Portuguese and Spanish are sister languages.
One thing I don't understand is why he is using the vosotros as a South American and since he lived in Venezuela for four years of his childhood. Maybe he stopped speaking it once he returned to Brazil and then had to "restudy" it, choosing the Spanish from Spain? I would have expected him to speak more latin american Spanish, that's all. |
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Castillian Spanish is taught in Brazil, not Latin American Spanish.
As for the situation in Venezuela, Portuguese is not routinely taught, but Instituto Camões (from Portugal) is trying to change it, benefiting from in-numerous Portuguese immigrants in Venezuela, so it's easier to find a Continental Portuguese course than a Brazilian one in Venezuela.
Edited by Medulin on 10 April 2014 at 4:20pm
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poorenglish_ Newbie Spain Joined 4633 days ago 12 posts - 17 votes Speaks: Spanish* Studies: English
| Message 7 of 8 10 April 2014 at 7:12pm | IP Logged |
Medulin wrote:
Castillian Spanish is taught in Brazil, not Latin American Spanish.
As for the situation in Venezuela, Portuguese is not routinely taught, but Instituto Camões (from Portugal) is trying to change it, benefiting from in-numerous Portuguese immigrants in Venezuela, so it's easier to find a Continental Portuguese course than a Brazilian one in Venezuela. |
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I think "culebrilla" was talking about Spanish in Venezuela ("ustedes" instead of "vosotros") not Portuguese.
Edited by poorenglish_ on 10 April 2014 at 7:21pm
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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 8 of 8 10 April 2014 at 9:11pm | IP Logged |
Medulin wrote:
Castillian Spanish is taught in Brazil, not Latin American Spanish.
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That's definitely not a rule. In my school, we had 2 native Spanish teachers, a Chilean and later on a Peruvian. First, we started being taught Castillian Spanish, then they started hiring natives who taught us Latin American Spanish. At first it was a little confusing for me, especially regarding personal pronouns.
Some friends of mine who studied in other schools also had Latin American teachers.
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