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| Wulfgar Senior Member United States Joined 4670 days ago 404 posts - 791 votes  Speaks: English* | Message 153 of 204 22 October 2012 at 5:20am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Yes he has. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| 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 154 of 204 22 October 2012 at 1:42pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
As far as I remember, he said he studied 20 something languages, but he considered himself fluent in "only" 4/5 of it, and he is in the learning process with the rest of them. The media wants to create news, so it's better if we listen to the guy, not just read what the media wrote. 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 155 of 204 22 October 2012 at 4:22pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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The media has said he speaks 23. Tim has always nuanced that instantly. I believe the
languages he says he is most comfortable in are French, Arabic, Farsi and Hebrew along with English. I also believe Richard has said his Chinese is good and has confirmed his German is quite good too (and Robert Bigler has also said this somewhere). There's also all the other videos of him on youtube. Edited by tarvos on 22 October 2012 at 4:24pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5923 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 156 of 204 22 October 2012 at 8:56pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Why criticize Tim? He is not misrepresenting himself, journalists are the ones exaggerating his skills. We should be used to this by now and be smart enough to know better than to be taken in by these tactics. Edited by mick33 on 23 October 2012 at 1:36am 5 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Wulfgar Senior Member United States Joined 4670 days ago 404 posts - 791 votes Speaks: English* | Message 157 of 204 23 October 2012 at 12:48am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Did you forget the interview posted on page 3 of this thread? www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17548351 When asked, he elaborates on his level. Technically, if you speak a single word of a language, than you can say you "speak" that language. But let's not pretend that he doesn't claim to speak 23 languages. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6581 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 158 of 204 23 October 2012 at 7:07am | IP Logged | ||||||||
I think he didn't hang around in the polyglot community enough to learn the rules of Polyglot Club. Rule #1 of Polyglot Club: "Never say 'fluent'." Rule #2: "Never say you 'speak' or 'know' a language, no matter what your level." Personally I don't speak any language, and never will. Edited by Ari on 23 October 2012 at 10:31am 17 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 159 of 204 23 October 2012 at 10:22am | IP Logged | ||||||||
You can go further and burn him down if you want to. If you really want to find something to criticise because you can't do what he can, be my guest. I am not gonna play the jealousy game, haters gonna hate. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Torbyrne Super Polyglot Senior Member Macedonia SpeakingFluently.com Joined 6094 days ago 126 posts - 721 votes Speaks: French, English*, German, Spanish, Dutch, Macedonian, Portuguese, Italian, Swedish, Czech, Catalan, Welsh, Serbo-Croatian Studies: Sign Language, Toki Pona, Albanian, Polish, Bulgarian, TurkishA1, Esperanto, Romanian, Danish, Mandarin, Icelandic, Modern Hebrew, Greek, Latvian, Estonian | Message 160 of 204 23 October 2012 at 1:03pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
I thought that the first rule of the Polyglot Club was to not mention the Polyglot Club! ;p. In all seriousness though, I've met Tim and he seems to have been led into making statements that sell...I found him to be polite, bright, articulate and pretty honest about his limitations. Those media pressures can be tough at any age...just my 2 cents. Whatever has been said, Tim is quite remarkable. :) 4 persons have voted this message useful |
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