Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6705 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map
| Message 26 of 62 31 January 2011 at 3:39pm | IP Logged |
Arekkusu wrote:
(...) Some actually have little interest for pronunciation. I can't help wonder whether they have terrible accents because they don't care, or if they don't care because they're not good at it. Perhaps it's the ultimate frontier. |
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I recognize myself in this. It is too harsh to say I don't care about pronunciation, but I don't expect that I can become a wonder of pronunciation when I listen and speak as little as I do in most of my languages. I know that I can adapt fairly quickly when I'm traveling around in a relevant country, and that my accents in most languages in between deteriorate - but that's life. For me the importance of language learning isn't oral communication.
Edited by Iversen on 31 January 2011 at 5:35pm
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Sandy Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5630 days ago 37 posts - 61 votes
| Message 27 of 62 31 January 2011 at 4:29pm | IP Logged |
If Huliganov is a genius then he is a very annoying genius. His Gold List method is obviously one of his little jokes. If language learning was so easy then we would all be polyglots. It is obvious that he is a native English speaker. From his accent I would say he was brought up in north London. I think his language ability can be put down to a very high IQ and to the fact that he seems to be one of those people who never stops talking or joking. He would have had far more practice speaking than the average language learner.
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slucido Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Spain https://goo.gl/126Yv Joined 6677 days ago 1296 posts - 1781 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Spanish*, Catalan* Studies: English
| Message 28 of 62 31 January 2011 at 5:35pm | IP Logged |
Sandy wrote:
If Huliganov is a genius then he is a very annoying genius. His Gold List method is obviously one of his little jokes. If language learning was so easy then we would all be polyglots. |
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I agree. I don't think he is explainig this seriously.
Sandy wrote:
It is obvious that he is a native English speaker. From his accent I would say he was brought up in north London. |
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He sounds like Ricky Gervais to me.
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slucido Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Spain https://goo.gl/126Yv Joined 6677 days ago 1296 posts - 1781 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Spanish*, Catalan* Studies: English
| Message 30 of 62 01 February 2011 at 3:39pm | IP Logged |
minaaret wrote:
As to the method itself. What Huliganov says (in a nutshell): grab an audiobook of a novel and two texts (L1 and L2), highlight unknown words and add them to Goldlist. |
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Thank you. Maybe I didn't understand the method. I am going to review it.
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slucido Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Spain https://goo.gl/126Yv Joined 6677 days ago 1296 posts - 1781 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Spanish*, Catalan* Studies: English
| Message 31 of 62 05 February 2011 at 5:02pm | IP Logged |
slucido wrote:
minaaret wrote:
As to the method itself. What Huliganov says (in a nutshell): grab an audiobook of a novel and two texts (L1 and L2), highlight unknown words and add them to Goldlist. |
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Thank you. Maybe I didn't understand the method. I am going to review it.
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I have just watched the videos and posts about the Gold list method and it makes sense.
If I understand, you can work with words from any source (even dictionaries) or sentences.
I am very sorry I thought it was a joke.
Edited by slucido on 05 February 2011 at 7:59pm
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flabbergasted Triglot Groupie Latvia Joined 6358 days ago 75 posts - 97 votes Speaks: Russian*, EnglishC2, Latvian Studies: Arabic (classical), French, German, Italian, Spanish, Mandarin, Serbo-Croatian, Catalan, Persian
| Message 32 of 62 05 February 2011 at 10:31pm | IP Logged |
Can anyone direct me to a clip in which Huliganov speaks Russian at length?
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