clumsy Octoglot Senior Member Poland lang-8.com/6715Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5181 days ago 1116 posts - 1367 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Japanese, Korean, French, Mandarin, Italian, Vietnamese Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swedish Studies: Danish, Dari, Kirundi
| Message 1 of 6 02 January 2012 at 3:52pm | IP Logged |
In some countries it's common to have some tv stars who are foreigners, who learned the
language of the host country.
I think in countries like USA it's nothing strange that someone can speak English.
However in some countries people are very curious to see foreigners learning their
language.
To the extent they can become quite famous.
Do you have such people in your country?
In Poland there are quite some of them.
Also in South Korea there is a tv programme that features foreign women that can speak
Korean - from all over the world.
In Chinese language there is even a term 'hanyu star' for such people.
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fabriciocarraro Hexaglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Brazil russoparabrasileirosRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4718 days ago 989 posts - 1454 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishB2, Italian, Spanish, Russian, French Studies: Dutch, German, Japanese
| Message 2 of 6 02 January 2012 at 4:30pm | IP Logged |
There an Ukrainian (and incredibly hot =P) girl called "Lola Melnick". She was a TV presentor in Chile, and now she's working here in Brazil. Her Portuguese is perfect, though she has a (cute) accent.
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nway Senior Member United States youtube.com/user/Vic Joined 5418 days ago 574 posts - 1707 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean
| Message 3 of 6 02 January 2012 at 5:23pm | IP Logged |
As soon as I read this, I immediately thought of a highly accomplished polyglot named Mike Campbell (who incidentally has a seldom-used account on this forum), who specializes in the Sinitic languages, particularly the languages of Taiwan (including aboriginal ones), and can be seen on a Taiwanese TV show here:
Mike上電視示範講臺灣16種語言
He has an incredibly extensive YouTube channel, and I'd encourage people to check it out...
Edited by nway on 02 January 2012 at 5:25pm
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Vlad Trilingual Super Polyglot Senior Member Czechoslovakia foreverastudent.com Joined 6587 days ago 443 posts - 576 votes 2 sounds Speaks: Czech*, Slovak*, Hungarian*, Mandarin, EnglishC2, GermanC2, ItalianC1, Spanish, Russian, Polish, Serbian, French Studies: Persian, Taiwanese, Romanian, Portuguese
| Message 4 of 6 03 January 2012 at 3:33am | IP Logged |
There's a TV show in Taiwan whith a lot of foreigners. It's on air every evening and most of the people's Mandarin is unbelievable.
Check out this Polish girl for instance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkmgZ4beJmU&feature=related
I watch the show just to learn Mandarin from some of the guests.
Some of the people are pretty famous in Taiwan. There are also a lot of Japanese celebrities who've been living in Taiwan for a long time with what seems to me is perfect Mandarin.
I think I've seen a similar Vietnamese show somewhere on youtube as well.
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clumsy Octoglot Senior Member Poland lang-8.com/6715Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5181 days ago 1116 posts - 1367 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Japanese, Korean, French, Mandarin, Italian, Vietnamese Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swedish Studies: Danish, Dari, Kirundi
| Message 5 of 6 02 April 2012 at 11:35pm | IP Logged |
THanks for the repleis.
Unfortunately the videos are said to be "private".
but I have found something interesting myself:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGA9YoYe-1s
Japanese woman playing traditional African instrument and speaking in Luo(?), the language of people who are ancestors of the current American President.
movies about foreigners who live in Poland
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXM1bebsSHQ
this Japanese woman can speak Polish (despite speaking English in this video), and has her own Internet tv show, I forgot the name unfortuantely :(
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| Message 6 of 6 03 April 2012 at 4:09pm | IP Logged |
There is a young Turkish guy named Enes Kaya (에네스 카야) in Korea. His Korean is extremely good. I saw him talking in some variety shows, but unfortunately I can't find the videos online.
He used to be the interpretor for a Turkish coach leading a Korean football team.
He was also in a couple of movies :
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