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| dekaglossai Newbie United States youtube.com/user/dek Joined 4389 days ago 19 posts - 59 votes  | Message 1 of 6 09 November 2012 at 1:10am | IP Logged |
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Hello everybody! I am a long-time reader of the forum, but just now have decided to join the online polyglot community. I can't give a great introduction in text, so instead I'm making a series of video introductions in which I speak each of the languages I know and talk about my experiences learning them. I hope you enjoy them!
My new youtube channel is under the same name, dekaglossai, and is located here: http:// www.youtube.com /user / dekaglossai (remove spaces) So far I've put up videos in English, Ancient Greek, Latin, and Russian. (all videos are now up) I'll put up an Italian video soon, to which I still need to append the subtitles. Then hopefully sometime in the next few weeks, I'll put up videos of me speaking the other languages I study: German, French, Modern Greek, Mandarin, Japanese, and Sanskrit. I'm really happy to be here, and I look forward to meeting you all! Edit: Italian video is up, German video to come soon! Edit 2: German video up too! more to come, but not today. Edit 3: All videos are now up, except for Sanskrit Edited by dekaglossai on 09 November 2012 at 8:51pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Goindol Senior Member United States Joined 6064 days ago 165 posts - 203 votes | Message 2 of 6 09 November 2012 at 5:56pm | IP Logged |
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Very impressive! Thank you for sharing the videos with us. I am glad to see that there are polyglots out there
devoted to speaking ancient languages, and one day hope to join your ranks. I look forward to reading your posts in the future on the specifics of how you acquired Latin and Greek. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4834 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 3 of 6 09 November 2012 at 8:19pm | IP Logged |
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Quite an impressive introduction. Welcome to the forum!
I especially liked your Russian and your Ancient Greek video. How long did it take you to reach such a degree of fluency in Russian? Would you like me to give you some suggestions for your German? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| dekaglossai Newbie United States youtube.com/user/dek Joined 4389 days ago 19 posts - 59 votes | Message 4 of 6 09 November 2012 at 8:54pm | IP Logged |
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Thank you both for the kind words of welcome! All of the videos I promised are now up on youtube--I ended up making them a lot quicker than I had anticipated. I have also added information about how long I've been studying each language in the video descriptions.
Goindal, thank you! I will definitely make some videos and posts about the best ways to acquire active knowledge of ancient languages, and describe some of the methods and resources I've used. Josquin, thank you! I've been studying Russian for a little more than three years. I would certainly appreciate any suggestions and comments about my German! Edited by dekaglossai on 09 November 2012 at 9:26pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4834 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 5 of 6 09 November 2012 at 11:44pm | IP Logged |
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It was a very good effort considering that it was your first attempt at speaking German. I could understand everything - except one word - and you didn't make any grammatical mistakes except some problems with word order.
I think you could try to enhance your pronunciation though. One thing that makes you sound very American is the fact you don't pronounce your ch's correctly. Mostly, they're simple k's (you say "ik" instead of "ich"), but sometimes you pronounce a hard ch-sound (ach-Laut) when it should be a soft ch (ich-Laut). I know this is hard for most native English speakers, but getting this right would make you sound much better. There's a similar problem with ü. You mostly say u, sometimes it's somewhere inbetween. Your z's are American z's, not German ones. They should be firm, unvoiced ts-sounds and not voiced s-sounds. Please note that a v in German is mostly pronounced f, and that sp is pronounced shp. An sh as in 'deshalb', however, is pronounced s-h and the sch in 'bisschen' is pronounced s-ch. Well, I got a bit into detail. It's not absolutely necessary that you get everything right, but if you want to work on some issues, those would be some good starting points. But, as I said, overall well done! Keep up the good work! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| dekaglossai Newbie United States youtube.com/user/dek Joined 4389 days ago 19 posts - 59 votes | Message 6 of 6 10 November 2012 at 6:47pm | IP Logged |
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Thank you so much for the detailed comments! I'm glad that you understood everything, and it is really good to get an idea of how I sound to a native (something that is nearly impossible to intuit on one's own). When I start to practice speaking German more frequently, I will try to take into account all of your comments!
Also, I am now uploading a video to youtube about how to learn to speak Latin and Ancient Greek, and I think I'll make a new thread about it, to field questions. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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