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taKen
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11 May 2008 at 12:14pm | IP Logged 
I found a rather interesting clip on YouTube where British polyglot Daniel Tammet learns Icelandic well enough to appear on live television in just a week. Enjoy!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=qMz3gjl9x-M
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TheElvenLord
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 Message 2 of 19
12 May 2008 at 10:57am | IP Logged 
Excellent video - thanks for sharing

TEL
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JasonChoi
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15 May 2008 at 8:50pm | IP Logged 
Daniel Tammet was discussed earlier on this thread.
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urubu
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 Message 4 of 19
03 March 2009 at 9:36am | IP Logged 
Daniel Tammet did it again - learning a language in a week - this time with German.

Here's an interview with him in the German weekly Spiegel:

Spiegel
article


Did anyone see him on TV on Monday?

Edited by urubu on 03 March 2009 at 9:01pm

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Stephen
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 Message 5 of 19
03 March 2009 at 10:18am | IP Logged 
taKen wrote:
I found a rather interesting clip on YouTube where British polyglot Daniel Tammet learns Icelandic well enough to appear on live television in just a week. Enjoy!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=qMz3gjl9x-M


Thank you for sharing this wonderful link with us, taKen!
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Olympia
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03 March 2009 at 11:54pm | IP Logged 
Is there anyone who would like to translate the German article into English? I'd love to read it, but I can't read German. So if there is anyone who wants practice translating or just enjoys doing it, I'd really appreciate it.
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Stephen
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04 March 2009 at 12:04am | IP Logged 
Olympia wrote:
Is there anyone who would like to translate the German article into English? I'd love to read it, but I can't read German. So if there is anyone who wants practice translating or just enjoys doing it, I'd really appreciate it.


Hi Olympia

If you open http://babelfish.yahoo.com/?fr=bf-res

and type in the articles link address into where it says Translate a web page and choose German to English, you will get a translated page, give or take some strange grammatical observations. :-) But you will understand it.
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Inno
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 Message 8 of 19
04 March 2009 at 11:39am | IP Logged 
His interview in German TV show:

http://mediathek.daserste.de/daserste/servlet/content/164197 2?pageId=487872&moduleId=443668&categoryId=&goto=1&show=


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