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| lichtrausch Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5959 days ago 525 posts - 1072 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Japanese Studies: Korean, Mandarin | Message 1 of 7 02 September 2012 at 5:36pm | IP Logged | ||
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I recently came across the below flyer at a bookstore in Boston. Lee Riethmiller, who
according to the flyer is fluent in 26 languages, will be giving a public talk on September 22nd in Cambridge, Massachusetts about the language learning method he uses at his language school, "The Intercontinental Foreign Language Program", located next to Harvard. Do any of you know about this guy and the true extent of his language abilities? link Event info: Saturday, September 22 3:30 - 5:30 PM at Schoenhof's Foreign Books 76A Mount Auburn Harvard Square, Cambridge Free and Open to the Public 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| lichtrausch Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5959 days ago 525 posts - 1072 votes Speaks: English*, German, Japanese Studies: Korean, Mandarin | Message 2 of 7 03 September 2012 at 4:10am | IP Logged | ||
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In this article he's quoted as saying he knows 45 languages. Hmmm.
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 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6702 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 3 of 7 03 September 2012 at 8:27am | IP Logged | ||
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There is an earlier thread about him here, but it is not on a very serious level
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| shapd Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6148 days ago 126 posts - 208 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Italian, Spanish, Latin, Modern Hebrew, French, Russian | Message 4 of 7 03 September 2012 at 1:12pm | IP Logged | ||
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If you are intending to go to his talk, maybe you could report back on what he really says he can do. There seems to be little reliable information out there on him.
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| lichtrausch Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5959 days ago 525 posts - 1072 votes Speaks: English*, German, Japanese Studies: Korean, Mandarin | Message 5 of 7 03 September 2012 at 4:00pm | IP Logged | ||
Ah, that thread didn't show up in the quick google search I did. It's fine with me if a moderator merges the two threads. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| lichtrausch Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5959 days ago 525 posts - 1072 votes Speaks: English*, German, Japanese Studies: Korean, Mandarin | Message 6 of 7 10 September 2012 at 2:52am | IP Logged | ||
I can't make it that day. I was hoping someone from the forum might be in the area and have the inclination to check it out. 1 person has 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 7 of 7 10 September 2012 at 7:06am | IP Logged | ||
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Well, if we can manage to avoid the usual nitpicking of "fluent" and "speaks" definitions, I'll believe him until proven otherwise. Most likely, his abilities aren't on par with those of Arguelles, but he seems to have built his life and business around foreign languages and I'd be interested in his ideas of how learning multiple languages at the same time can make for synergy rather than interference. Let's give him the benefit of the doubt, yeah? He might be able to teach us something.
Any stateside HTLAL:er who feels like contacting him (and maybe evaluate his skill in a language or two)? Surely he'd be interested in talking to fellow polyglots and if nothing else, a favorable reputation on HTLAL could help his business. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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