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| zerrubabbel Senior Member United States Joined 4599 days ago 232 posts - 287 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Mandarin | Message 1 of 3 24 April 2012 at 10:51pm | IP Logged |
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so lately, ive found Laoshu50500's "level up" series of videos very facinating, how he
often walks around only for the purpose of meeting native speakers... Ive recently had the pleasure of meeting a Native speaker, though, only online, but It was exciting nonetheless... please, share your Level up, or battle field experiences, where you go, what youve discussed, or perhaps something you find helpful about Laoshu50500's videos 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| translator2 Senior Member United States Joined 6918 days ago 848 posts - 1862 votes Speaks: English* | Message 2 of 3 24 April 2012 at 11:57pm | IP Logged |
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I prefer his "stocking up" videos while wandering through the grocery store, his "filling up" videos while driving his car to the gas station and his "cleaning up" videos organizing his bookshelves, but my favorites are his "double down" videos when he adds yet another language to the whiteboard.
Meanwhile, I've got to speak with an attorney in Italian tomorrow regarding a translation for a big corporate client, guess I'd better "power up". Honestly, expecting people to watch a two and a half hour video of you walking around the shopping mall is slightly narcissistic. When did learning languages become a reality show? Edited by translator2 on 27 April 2012 at 2:48am 4 persons have voted this message useful | |
| JosefWigren Bilingual Hexaglot Newbie Sweden josefwigren.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4622 days ago 9 posts - 35 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English*, Spanish, Japanese, Hindi, Vietnamese Studies: Russian | Message 3 of 3 25 April 2012 at 8:53am | IP Logged |
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I can't say that I find his "level up" videos at all helpful. If I wanted to see an
hour long video of random conversation, I would switch on a soap-opera or other TV-show in the language I'm interested in. At least the audio would be better, there would be proper video editing and coherence in the video. Sometimes I wonder if he knows what video editing is at all, or has any kind of basic concept of how to edit a video, to remove redundancy and improve viewing quality. In my opinion, 20 minutes of his recordings could and should be condensed to about 3-4 minutes instead. I can agree that it is exciting to talk to native speakers of the languages you are learning, but I would never just grab a camera and strut around looking for people to record, especially not without asking permission first. Not taking their permission is not only rude, but an invasion of their privacy. Also, it would be much more interesting if he had found someone, taken them to a cafe and held some kind of interview or small-talk if he wants to help his "fellow subscribers" to "level up", from his videos (or wants to "level up" himself). 4 persons have voted this message useful |
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