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| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5127 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes  Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 73 of 204 12 April 2012 at 8:59pm | IP Logged | ||
Truthfully, I hadn't noticed any eye-rolls. On another forum people had commented on how irritated Luca looked. I didn't get that, honestly. I thought he just looked tired. R. == 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| tmp011007 Diglot Senior Member Congo Joined 6066 days ago 199 posts - 346 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: French, Portuguese | Message 74 of 204 12 April 2012 at 9:11pm | IP Logged | ||
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not just you BUT who knows.. we need Paul Ekman right away xD
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| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5378 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 75 of 204 12 April 2012 at 9:59pm | IP Logged | ||
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Actually, they both seem bored when the other one is talking.
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| Lucky Charms Diglot Senior Member Japan lapacifica.net Joined 6946 days ago 752 posts - 1711 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: German, Spanish | Message 76 of 204 12 April 2012 at 10:26pm | IP Logged | ||
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The few times I've been recorded in that kind of seating arrangement, with two speakers
sitting side by side facing the camera, it was very awkward. When the other person's talking, you have no idea where to look. Our instinct is to keep our eyes on the person who's speaking, but this wouldn't look right in that situation where the speaker is not looking back at you, so what do you do? Do you stare straight ahead into the camera, nodding and smiling the whole time to the viewers instead of the speaker right next to you? Do you pretend there is no camera and fix your gaze on some point ahead, listening and nodding transfixedly as if it were a recording with no speaker or audience present? Or should you try to cycle between the three (looking at the speaker, staring directly into the camera, and gazing somewhere else while listening transfixedly) while somehow trying to make it look as natural as possible? This is exactly the awkward discomfort I sensed from both of them, rather than any annoyance or boredom. Edited by Lucky Charms on 12 April 2012 at 10:33pm 12 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| translator2 Senior Member United States Joined 6916 days ago 848 posts - 1862 votes Speaks: English* | Message 77 of 204 12 April 2012 at 11:55pm | IP Logged | ||
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He speaks Turkish with native speakers after two weeks???? Reads Arabic newspapers in four weeks?
Seriously, 23 languages in two years means a total of 4.5 weeks on each language. I do not understand how anyone can take this seriously (especially someone like Luca who I admire). It's an obvious scam (although one that requires a lot of effort). He knows the amount of 23 languages that one could learn in 4 weeks time which is not a lot. Sometimes things are not always what they seem. If something doesn't seem to have the ring of truth to it, it probably isn't true. People are so willing to believe in the impossible: For example: FirstHumanMalePregnancy Remember the Ziad thread? Edited by translator2 on 13 April 2012 at 12:39am 6 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| TixhiiDon Tetraglot Senior Member Japan Joined 5461 days ago 772 posts - 1474 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese, German, Russian Studies: Georgian | Message 78 of 204 13 April 2012 at 1:22am | IP Logged | ||
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Translator2, you seem to spend an inordinate amount of time tracking down supposed language frauds,
inspecting their videos on YouTube for authenticity, and writing reams about them on here. Don't you think your time would be better spent working on your own languages rather than seething with resentment against either those whose claims are fraudulent or, as I suspect is the case with Tim, those whose skills are simply greater than yours or mine? 11 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| translator2 Senior Member United States Joined 6916 days ago 848 posts - 1862 votes Speaks: English* | Message 79 of 204 13 April 2012 at 1:54am | IP Logged | ||
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| tmp011007 Diglot Senior Member Congo Joined 6066 days ago 199 posts - 346 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: French, Portuguese | Message 80 of 204 13 April 2012 at 2:36am | IP Logged | ||
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http://youtu.be/RateeBJIF4k
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