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Canada’s Global TV hyperpolyglot program | ||
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| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5380 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes  Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 9 of 51 03 May 2012 at 12:46pm | IP Logged | ||
I'm in the middle, on the first row. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ChristopherB Triglot Senior Member New Zealand Joined 6315 days ago 851 posts - 1074 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English*, German, French | Message 10 of 51 03 May 2012 at 1:29pm | IP Logged | ||
Indeed! I didn't recognise him at first, having only seen his Twitter display pic, but half way through the vid I suddenly realized it was him. Very cool to actually hear and see a regular forum poster at last! Edited by ChristopherB on 03 May 2012 at 1:36pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Michael K. Senior Member United States Joined 5728 days ago 568 posts - 886 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Esperanto | Message 11 of 51 03 May 2012 at 3:16pm | IP Logged | ||
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Is it just a 6 minute clip? I thought it was going to be a full program.
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 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5846 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 12 of 51 03 May 2012 at 3:45pm | IP Logged | ||
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The Global TV hyperpolyglot discussion still isn't broadcasted on Canadian TV! We will have to wait until 05 May 2012...
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| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5380 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 13 of 51 06 May 2012 at 6:24am | IP Logged | ||
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Here is the link to the show: Word Play
Don't know if it's viewable from outside Canada. Interesting show, but as far as our discussion goes, very little was kept in the show, and there is even less then in the preview clips. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Rob_Austria Heptaglot Groupie Austria Joined 5001 days ago 84 posts - 293 votes Speaks: German*, Italian, Spanish, French, English, Portuguese, Japanese Studies: Croatian, Mandarin, Russian, Arabic (Written), Turkish | Message 14 of 51 06 May 2012 at 10:28am | IP Logged | ||
I was able to watch the video from Austria and I loved it. Too bad it was rather short but I still enjoyed it very much. It would be great to see a really in-depth program dealing with the subject one day. Everybody came across as very friendly and likeable :-) 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4843 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 15 of 51 06 May 2012 at 1:00pm | IP Logged | ||
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I watched it from Germany.
It was a really great and interesting show. Unfortunately, it was so short. I could have watched it for hours! It was especially interesting to see Richard and Tim. Too bad there was so little footage of the polyglot discussion. I would have liked to see that as well. An in-depth programme would be really a great idea. The hyperpolyglot thing interests me and what Michael Erard said didn't sound bad either. Perhaps, I'm going to read Babel No More after all. Edited by Josquin on 06 May 2012 at 1:01pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6469 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 16 of 51 06 May 2012 at 1:47pm | IP Logged | ||
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Just watched it, too. All very interesting, but it left me unsatisfied.
Why bring together 5 polyglots for a 3-hour panel discussion if you aren't going to show the results? Even worse the treatment of the Richard & Tim footage imho: I didn't get anything out of it other than "we brought these two hyperpolyglots together in NY" - awesome idea, but what is the result?? Where is all that footage you must have collected? There was a lot of footage of people saying sentences in foreign languages throughout the show of course, but I was hoping for more substance, to learn more e. g.about how these amazing learners feel about languages and how they go about learning them. Two points that the program promoted that annoyed me: 1. that idea of hyperpolyglots being male, left-handed, with autoimmune disorders etc. and suggesting that there was a sample base of 400 to that finding when there were only 17, not scientific at all and discredited also by their own sample 2. the suggestions that if you spend 6-8 hours studying languages every day that you're still not going to be a polyglot very soon, that you additionally need talent or a different brain. 5 persons have voted this message useful |
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