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Marc Frisch
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Message 57 of 66

14 August 2009 at 11:56pm | IP Logged

cordelia0507 wrote:

Too bad Turaisiawase left the forum because he was really good at Japanese and teaching it.

100% agree. Not because of his/her ability to teach Japanese, but because he/she seems to be a real capacity on languages and language learning.

I'm equally disappointed that Steve Kaufmann has been banned from this forum. True, he promoted his LinqQ-site too much, but he's still a very impressive polyglot: I just listened to his videos on youtube and there is no doubt that he's very fluent in the language he claims to speak:
- English & French: perfect
- German: perfect intonation, small grammar mistakes
- Italian, Portuguese: slow, but flawless

and I can't judge the others, but he seems quite confident in Swedish, Mandarin, and Japanese...
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Message 58 of 66

15 August 2009 at 1:48am | IP Logged

patuco wrote:

Jiwon wrote:

patuco wrote:

cordelia0507 wrote:

Too bad Turaisiawase left the forum
because he was really good at Japanese and teaching it.

How do you know he was good at teaching it?

P.S. Don't worry about his leaving, I'm sure he'll be back soon enough. There's something about this place which
he finds irresistible and is inexorably drawn back time and time again.

Under a differnt name you mean.

Obviously!

Perhaps we should start a poll on what his new name could be.

I'm not sure he'll ever come back. It may take three centuries and thirty two years of healing for him to get over
the pain.
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patuco
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Message 59 of 66

16 August 2009 at 12:22am | IP Logged

Marc Frisch wrote:

I'm equally disappointed that Steve Kaufmann has been banned from this forum.

He was banned under one username but he's since returned under his real name (and he's been behaving better so far).

icing_death wrote:

I'm not sure he'll ever come back. It may take three centuries and thirty two years of healing for him to get over the pain.

He'll recover quicker than that. In fact, I think that he's already returned.
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cordelia0507
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Message 60 of 66

16 August 2009 at 2:24am | IP Logged

haha patuco is right.... spotted, suspect:

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patuco
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Message 61 of 66

16 August 2009 at 11:18am | IP Logged

I wasn't actually referring to him, but that's two probables now.
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William Camden
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Message 62 of 66

26 February 2010 at 2:45pm | IP Logged

Gilgamesh wrote:

Sennin wrote:

Gilgamesh wrote:

- William_Camden seems to have a good grasp of Turkish, which I don't encounter that often, either.

With its 70 million speakers, it's hardly an obscure language ;).

Very, true, BUT...

It's not a language that many people seem to learn. Even though they have much less speakers, people seem learn more Hebrew, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian or Finnish on here than, say, Turkish. What is even more extreme is the fact that many Indic languages have 30 + million native speakers, yet hardly any of these languages is learnt here. Or who do you know that studies Telugu or Malayalam?

Turkish is not often spoken or studied by people without a Turkish-speaking background. In an earlier post elsewhere, I described speaking Turkish in London and being taken for a Turkish Cypriot.
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Message 63 of 66

26 February 2010 at 5:53pm | IP Logged

Rhoda wrote:

I was definitely intrigued when I saw the languages apparition is working on. Among them:

Polish
Icelandic
Persian
Albanian
Gujarati
Turkish

I am always impressed by someone who has acquired skill in a foreign language, but there is something compelling about a person who tackles a language that is a little more offbeat and rare.

That's quite impressive. I'm especially interested by Icelandic. I might not have the chance to study it in the near future, but I still find it fascinating. Is there any other Icelandic learner/speaker on this forum?
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joanthemaid
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Message 64 of 66

26 February 2010 at 6:23pm | IP Logged

Gilgamesh wrote:

- Haven't met anyone on here who's actually learning/has learnt any Berber language/dialect

I'd actually like to learn Kabyl. Is no one really studying it here?

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