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| schoenewaelder Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5563 days ago 759 posts - 1197 votes  Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch | Message 49 of 56 25 July 2012 at 1:49pm | IP Logged | ||
I think this is one aspects I don't really like about the way facebook is used. Firms are using it to increase their visibility, but it just results in people who are not really interested in the subject having making there own superficial entertainment/attractiveness based assessments. Presumably the Goethe Institute think some of these voters will sign up for language classes, but I fear they are mistaken A similar thing happened at LingQ, where they did the voting for a new language via facebook instead of on there own site, and a language got chosen (I forget which) that no one was actually interested in, and all the members were very upset. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5559 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 50 of 56 25 July 2012 at 2:29pm | IP Logged | ||
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Richard has won the competition!
Just to reiterate Splog and Torbyrne's posts and hopefully add a little closure here, I'm very happy to officially announce that, with the help of your votes, Richard has won first place in the Goethe competition and will be an "Ambassador for Multilingualism" at the next Poliglotti4.eu conference in Italy! This just goes to show how pulling together and offering our support can make a difference. When I started this thread a couple of days before the end of the voting period, Richard had 165 votes and was far behind the leading entry, with waning hopes of winning; but with all your support flooding in since, as well as from other areas of the Internet and posts on this forum, we've turned this whole thing around and made it happen for him with a winning count in the end of 477 votes. I'm over the moon that Richard will now be able to represent us at the conference and help further promote language learning on an international stage. He deserves this gig and will make an excellent ambassador (who knows, he may even be offered Ferrero Rocher in multiple languages too). So a big thanks once again to everyone who voted, and we look forward to hearing all about the conference next year. :) Edited by Teango on 25 July 2012 at 3:25pm 10 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| nuriayasmin70 Diglot Senior Member Germany languagesandbeyoRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4524 days ago 132 posts - 162 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: SpanishB1, Portuguese, Czech, Hungarian | Message 51 of 56 25 July 2012 at 6:09pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm glad that Richard won the competition. I had never heard of that conference before but like it on facebook now. I do see the danger of facebook votes but I don't think it makes sense to complain about facebook all the time. Firms and organizations use it for promotion and spreading information and that's something I like. Richard won because of this thread here but most likely also because forum users shared the link on their facebook page and asked friends and relatives to vote for him.
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| Agamemnonas666 Tetraglot Newbie United States Joined 4514 days ago 4 posts - 7 votes Speaks: English*, Latin, German, Spanish Studies: Cantonese, Sanskrit, Cherokee | Message 52 of 56 26 July 2012 at 3:25am | IP Logged | ||
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Well what can I say but WOOT! :D
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| Lucky Charms Diglot Senior Member Japan lapacifica.net Joined 6952 days ago 752 posts - 1711 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: German, Spanish | Message 53 of 56 27 July 2012 at 4:05pm | IP Logged | ||
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I came across this thread a little too late and wasn't able to vote, but I can't think of
a polyglot who deserves this more than Richard. He has helped and inspired so many language learners. Way to go, and enjoy the conference! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Mae Trilingual Octoglot Pro Member Germany Joined 4994 days ago 299 posts - 499 votes Speaks: German*, SpanishC2*, Swiss-German*, FrenchC2, EnglishC2, ItalianB2, Dutch, Portuguese Studies: Russian, Swedish Personal Language Map | Message 54 of 56 30 October 2012 at 11:46pm | IP Logged | ||
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Full Programme for Poliglotti4.eu Conference in Parma Announced
For more information about the Poliglotti4.eu Conference, have a look at their "Media centre". There is a draft programme available here. In the "Confirmed speakers" section Alexander Rawlings, who speaks 11 languages, has been labelled "Language genius". I for one would then consider Richard to be a "Language supergenius", as he speaks a few more ;-) Edited by Mae on 30 October 2012 at 11:47pm 2 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 55 of 56 31 October 2012 at 6:08am | IP Logged | ||
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Mae, thanks for posting the link to the programm of the Poliglotti EU - conference in Parma, Italy.
Fasulye Edited by Fasulye on 04 November 2012 at 9:17am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tmp011007 Diglot Senior Member Congo Joined 6072 days ago 199 posts - 346 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: French, Portuguese | Message 56 of 56 22 November 2012 at 6:45am | IP Logged | ||
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Polyglot Conference Italy
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