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 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5847 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes  1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 25 of 204 29 March 2012 at 9:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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I wrote a positive comment referring to the newspaper article as a reaction on PolyglotPal's You Tube channel and he just deleted it.
(EDIT) There seems to be a technical issue in the channels... Fasulye Edited by Fasulye on 30 March 2012 at 7:56am 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Polyglotpal Triglot Newbie United States youtube.com/user/PolRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4660 days ago 4 posts - 28 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Egyptian), French | Message 26 of 204 29 March 2012 at 10:39pm | IP Logged | ||
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Fasulye, I never deleted your comment on my channel. I never got the chance to respond because I was in
France and didn't have a great deal of free time. I never intended to offend you or anyone else. This is exactly the reason why I haven't written in this thread - I don't want an otherwise interesting and fruitful discussion to turn into a character attack. 10 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Ellsworth Senior Member United States Joined 4957 days ago 345 posts - 528 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Swedish, Finnish, Icelandic, Irish | Message 27 of 204 29 March 2012 at 11:31pm | IP Logged | ||
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Well I wouldn't exactly call this a "fruitful discussion" more just posting bits of
information about you. It's nice to have your comment here though. Would you be interested at all in talking more to us about your methods, your levels in the different languages and such? 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Mooby Senior Member Scotland Joined 6105 days ago 707 posts - 1220 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Polish | Message 28 of 204 29 March 2012 at 11:53pm | IP Logged | ||
Welcome. I just enjoyed hearing your interview on the BBC, well done. Of course people can naturally be curious or even picky, suspicious and jealous.....but your love of languages is beyond doubt. I look forward to hearing about your progress (especially in Polish!). Powodzenia 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Polyglotpal Triglot Newbie United States youtube.com/user/PolRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4660 days ago 4 posts - 28 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Egyptian), French | Message 29 of 204 30 March 2012 at 12:01am | IP Logged | ||
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So, since I'm out in the open now, I'd be more than happy to explain or discuss anything you're interested in! Edited by Polyglotpal on 30 March 2012 at 5:16pm 7 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Ellsworth Senior Member United States Joined 4957 days ago 345 posts - 528 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Swedish, Finnish, Icelandic, Irish | Message 30 of 204 30 March 2012 at 12:18am | IP Logged | ||
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How well do you actually know your languages?
I notice you added French and Arabic to your languages, but no others. Does this mean that those are the only two besides English that you can actually speak fluently? Edited by Ellsworth on 30 March 2012 at 12:20am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Michael K. Senior Member United States Joined 5729 days ago 568 posts - 886 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Esperanto | Message 31 of 204 30 March 2012 at 12:26am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm sorry for saying you sound like a jerk, Tim.
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| Polyglotpal Triglot Newbie United States youtube.com/user/PolRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4660 days ago 4 posts - 28 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Egyptian), French | Message 32 of 204 30 March 2012 at 12:42am | IP Logged | ||
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Don't worry about it Michael! In terms of my languages, I tend not to use the word "fluency" because it often
gives people false expectations about just how well you speak. *For "high level" languages --meaning ones I can converse, read, write in, etc without many problems -- I would say French, Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew, German and Latin (though obviously the last one is no longer spoken). *After that, the next gradation would be Mandarin, Italian, Indonesian, Dutch, Yiddish, Hindi, Swahili, Russian and Pashto (meaning I'm at least intermediate or higher and I can carry on a conversation/translate in both directions). *I would say I'm at a more basic level with languages like Croatian, Turkish, Wolof, Hausa and Xhosa, though I have dedicated a fair bit of time to studying each of them. *I have a few "outlier" languages after that such as Ojibwe and Kurdish which I have never learned with the goal of speaking in mind -In response to Ellsworth, I've just listed those two because the language tool here is a bit time-consuming for me :) Edited by Polyglotpal on 30 March 2012 at 12:44am 4 persons have voted this message useful |
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