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| Ellsworth Senior Member United States Joined 4960 days ago 345 posts - 528 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, Swedish, Finnish, Icelandic, Irish | Message 33 of 204 30 March 2012 at 12:53am | IP Logged | ||
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Thank you for the explanation, but I still find it a bit difficult to understand. Do you
know the CEFR? Could you possibly assess your languages with that scale? I know I am coming across pushy, but I am just curious. Ah and you tried Ojibwe! I am very interested in Native American languages myself. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| stelingo Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5835 days ago 722 posts - 1076 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Czech, Polish, Greek, Mandarin | Message 34 of 204 30 March 2012 at 1:05am | IP Logged | ||
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Hi Tim. welcome to the forum. I enjoyed viewing your Youtube videos and look forward to seeing more in the future. I was surprised by the comment you made on the BBC radio interview that you thought Russian was the most challenging language for a native English speaker. Most would say a non Indo-European language such as Arabic or Mandarin. Why do you think that?
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| Polyglotpal Triglot Newbie United States youtube.com/user/PolRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4663 days ago 4 posts - 28 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Egyptian), French | Message 35 of 204 30 March 2012 at 1:45am | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks Stelingo! I must admit I'm a bit biased on the matter -- I've studied both Arabic and Chinese with very good
teachers, whereas Russian I had to teach myself from scratch. The reason I picked it as the hardest is because of the difficult and nuanced phonology, grammatical concepts that seem archaic from an English-speaker's perspective and of course the always hard-to-guess stress patterns. Chinese grammar for most learners isn't too complicated, and I found that I picked up Arabic without much trouble because I already knew Hebrew Ellsworth - I'm not so familiar with the CEFR system, but having read through it my (tentative) guesses for my best languages would be French, Written Arabic - C1, Farsi and Hebrew B2 Edited by Polyglotpal on 30 March 2012 at 5:16pm 7 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| sillygoose1 Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 4639 days ago 566 posts - 814 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish, French Studies: German, Latin | Message 36 of 204 30 March 2012 at 2:41am | IP Logged | ||
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Polyglotpal, what is your learning process and what sort of courses do you use when teaching yourself?
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 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5850 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 37 of 204 30 March 2012 at 7:01am | IP Logged | ||
Tim, I also have a You Tube channel and if people post there and I'm not available, I would just not react. I'm fine with this that, if i post something, that I get no reaction. But You Tube has no function of "automatic" deletion of posts. I'm on You Tube since 2009, so I know how a You Tube channel works. I have read your post on your channel that you are in France without any internet access. My post was dated on the day that the New York Times article was published, but it's gone now. So, why??? By the way: Welcome to this language forum! Fasulye Edited by Fasulye on 30 March 2012 at 7:38am 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5850 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 38 of 204 30 March 2012 at 8:06am | IP Logged | ||
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TECHNICAL PROBLEM IN THE YOU TUBE CHANNELS
First my excuse to Tim, but there seems to be a technical issue in the You Tube channels, which I also have in my own channel. Under "Feed" are shown only the LAST perhaps 10-15 reactions and you cannot scroll anymore to the earlier reactions. With the old You Tube Layout you could browse through different pages of reactions. My reaction was dated on the day of appearance of the "The New York Times" article, so it's older than the reactions which I can see now under "Feed" in your channel and therefore nobody can see it anymore. This is not a good feature and You Tube is to blame because, if you don't respond quite early to your reactions, you will not get the chance to see them anymore. So everything which is older is "lost" in a way. And this happens in every You Tube channel which uses the new layout. So I have edited my previous post! Good that we clear this up, because I had a negative feeling. Kind regards, Fasulye Edited by Fasulye on 30 March 2012 at 8:12am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Pisces Bilingual Pentaglot Senior Member Finland Joined 4625 days ago 143 posts - 284 votes Speaks: English*, Finnish*, French, SwedishC1, Esperanto Studies: German, Spanish, Russian | Message 39 of 204 31 March 2012 at 12:43pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hi Tim and everyone else. I was brought to this forum by the Times article, so I was interested in this thread.
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| Rob_Austria Heptaglot Groupie Austria Joined 5005 days ago 84 posts - 293 votes Speaks: German*, Italian, Spanish, French, English, Portuguese, Japanese Studies: Croatian, Mandarin, Russian, Arabic (Written), Turkish | Message 40 of 204 02 April 2012 at 11:27am | IP Logged | ||
Wow, I keep wondering what makes people say things like that when the issue is not his character (which by the way hardly anybody would be able to say a lot about if they don't know him personally) but his ability and above all his enthusiasm with regard to language learning. Tim does not seem to lack self-confidence but I consider this an asset rather than something to be criticized and I must say that he has shown to be much more mature in his responses to some remarks here than those who had made those remarks in the first place. 13 persons have voted this message useful |
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