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slucido
Bilingual Diglot
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Spain
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Speaks: Spanish*, Catalan*
Studies: English

Message 42 of 62

11 May 2011 at 4:25pm | IP Logged

szastprast wrote:

Arekkusu wrote:

Thuan wrote:

v=uhuCCLTAqyg&feature=player_embedded">Interview with Huliganov on Polish TV

Very
well done!

... his speaking and writing are only intermediate, to be generous, sentences are not correct grammatically, his choice of words is clumsy, pronunciation: obviously English, but understandable.

In his profile he says: Polish Native Fluency. A far cry. An example of how polyglots overestimate their ability.

His Russian seems to be much better than Polish, though.

szastprast wrote:

I would have to correct every sentence. Let native speakers do it.
His speech is the same.

I do not like this forum.

You are always against my heros and trying to destroy them.

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Arekkusu
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Canada
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Speaks: English, French*, German^C1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto
Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian

Message 44 of 62

11 May 2011 at 4:56pm | IP Logged

szastprast wrote:

slucido wrote:

I do not like this forum.

You are always against my heros and trying to destroy them.

I am not trying to destroy anybody! I do admire Huliganov, he is an excellent teacher of Russian. And he DOES know Polish quite well. Only his speaking and writing are not as good as he thinks they are. They are not native like at all. They are just intermediate, just like my English, for instance.
Many a polyglot overestimates his/her own skills. That's always puzzled me.
I don't know many languages, but I know what I know and what I don't.

Neither his Polish nor your English are at an intermediate level. Come on, now.
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Kubelek
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Switzerland
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Speaks: Polish*, English^C2, French, Spanish
Studies: German

Message 45 of 62

11 May 2011 at 7:30pm | IP Logged

He's just not that good... If he speaks 20 languages at that level then it's great, but
there's a lot of room for improvement in his Polish. I have friends who have learned
Polish to study here, so I don't think it's an impossible feat anymore.
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Splog
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Czech Republic
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Studies: Mandarin

Message 47 of 62

11 May 2011 at 9:43pm | IP Logged

Kubelek wrote:

He's just not that good... If he speaks 20 languages at that level
then
it's great, but
there's a lot of room for improvement in his Polish. I have friends who have learned
Polish to study here, so I don't think it's an impossible feat anymore.

In the video, it was the moderators trying to push him to say he spoke 20 languages. He
was being more modest than they wanted, saying he could read magazines and watch TV,
but wasn't exactly fluent in all these languages

So, I think the "speaks 20 languages" was more a case of the TV channel creating an
exciting headline. They were trying to make him out to be some kind of talented super-
genius. He seemed more interested in talking about the effectiveness of his learning
method (goldlists), and said that you don't need to have special talent to learn
languages - we can all do it..

Edited by Splog on 11 May 2011 at 9:51pm
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