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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4792 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 9 of 15 16 November 2012 at 11:05pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Well, Simcott got English for free of course, and though Luca speaks fantastic English I
can still hear that he is a little foreign. So I would say this is an achievement as it is! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| stifa Triglot Senior Member Norway lang-8.com/448715 Joined 4958 days ago 629 posts - 813 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, EnglishC2, German Studies: Japanese, Spanish | Message 10 of 15 16 November 2012 at 11:48pm | IP Logged | |||||
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What I did in presentations in English classes, was to write down the beginning of each
paragraph of the manuscript and then just continue based on them. It was a nice way to make sure I included everything I wanted to say. Try it ;) And your video was brilliant. I enjoyed the German and Swedish parts as I understood those completely, even though my German is a bit ...ahem rusty. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6994 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 11 of 15 17 November 2012 at 12:23am | IP Logged | |||||
I hear "Jag har lärt mig svenska när jag var femton år gammal" as the typical German perfect tense, not totally wrong but any Swede would use simple past tense ("Jag lärde mig..."). "Det är en sådant vackert språk" - Gender disagreement: it should be "ett sådant vackert språk" (since "språk" is neuter). "...och jag ville ovillkorligen känna detta språk" - choice of words - 'ovillkorligen' works but I have yet to hear one single person use it in colloquial speech...;unnatural usage - "känna" must be your German interefering again, we use that verb when you know persons, not skills (="kunna"). "...och den var det andra språket som jag lärde mig själv" - gender disagreement (det var det andra språket...) "när jag var i den andra terminen" - unnatural usage;suggestion: "när jag läste den andra terminen"/"under den andra terminen" "så att jag slutade svenska" - something is missing, maybe "slutade med svenska"/"slutade studera svenska"/"slutade läsa svenska"/even "hoppade av svenskan" (funnily enough, a definite ending sounds better in this last example). "men jag vill gå dit" - åka dit/resa dit/ta mig dit ("gå" always means "walk") "när jag har pengarna" - unnecessary definite ending: "när jag har pengar" works just fine. Keep it up! 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4929 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 12 of 15 17 November 2012 at 1:48am | IP Logged | |||||
Well, thank you! I surely appreciate this compliment, but I didn't specifically mean Luca's and Richard's English accents. I rather thought of their ability to imitate accents in general. Their German is amazing! They really sound like Germans, while the good professor, for example, has a tiny accent - although his German is excellent overall as well. I simply envy them a bit for that. I can imitate accents, too, but I don't think I'll ever fool anybody into believing I was a native speaker of a foreign language.
Thanks for this suggestion! I'll certainly give it a try. By the way, I'm glad you liked the video! @Jeff: Thank you very much for these corrections. It's those little things that slip into my speech without my noticing it. I think my Swedish simply suffers from my German and English (eine Sprache vs. ett språk, to go somewhere vs. åka någonstans, etc.) and I don't know enough idiomatic expressions. Maybe, I'll have the opportunity to brush up my Swedish in the future - when I'm done with Russian, ha ha! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4929 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 13 of 15 17 November 2012 at 6:01pm | IP Logged | |||||
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If any of you should be interested, I made a short comment on my multilingual video - this time without script and entirely in English. I kind of ramble a bit and there are many ehms and uhms, but this is the "real me" talking:
Short comment on the multilingual video It's kind of fun making these videos, so maybe there are more to come when I have interesting topics to talk about. See you soon! Edited by Josquin on 17 November 2012 at 6:14pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5932 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 14 of 15 19 November 2012 at 2:42pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Josquin, I listened to your first You Tube video and I enjoyed it because you have an excellent pronounciation in all of the languages. I can recognise that you are from Germany which is easy because I am from the same country. It's not that you have a strong accent. It's a well designed speech and I had my fun listening to this.
Good luck for your next video projects! Fasulye Edited by Fasulye on 20 November 2012 at 2:27pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4929 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 15 of 15 19 November 2012 at 4:49pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Thanks, Fasulye, for your kind words!
It sort of takes some courage to go out there and speak your languages in public, but getting such a feedback is very helpful. It encourages me to go on and practise my languages more in the future. I haven't got any ideas for new videos yet, but if there's something new, I'll inform you in this thread. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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