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portunhol
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 Message 25 of 58
04 February 2011 at 5:49pm | IP Logged 
More videos folks. He's added Vietnamese and Portuguese and redone his Mandarin video:

http://www.youtube.com/user/srcforeignlanguages
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portunhol
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 Message 27 of 58
04 February 2011 at 6:44pm | IP Logged 
minaaret wrote:
Did I hear it correctly, he said 'cinquenta e nove idiomas'? (fifty-nine languages)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WLYh3FSdyY


Yes.
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 Message 28 of 58
04 February 2011 at 6:59pm | IP Logged 
Someone is just a tad delusional.



Edited by translator2 on 04 February 2011 at 7:01pm

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 Message 29 of 58
04 February 2011 at 11:12pm | IP Logged 
People are always quick to pick out what's wrong with people, never even attempt to pick out his strengths. It is a bit big headed he claims to be the 'greatest polyglot' but give the poor man some slack! ;)

Listening to his video, the first thing that came to my mind was 'jack of all trades, master of none'.
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 Message 30 of 58
05 February 2011 at 12:09am | IP Logged 
Lightning wrote:
Listening to his video, the first thing that came to my mind was 'jack of all trades, master of none'.



Which brings me to make a question and a statement:

Question: Is it better to study lots of languages you probably won't use or 2-7 that you will use on a regular basis to promote and sustain fluency?

Statement: It's always best to qualify your language abilities. You can get into big trouble if you say that you speak 10 languages unless you can really speak them fluently.
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 Message 31 of 58
05 February 2011 at 12:21am | IP Logged 
I won't cut him any slack because he made an outrageous boast and has thus far failed to back up his claim. I don't know what you guys think, but I have some experience with Vietnamese, and his sounded awful to me.

Is he saying the same thing in every language? Since I am most assuredly not the "world's greatest living polyglot", I can't tell what he is saying   :)




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 Message 32 of 58
05 February 2011 at 2:26am | IP Logged 
Maybe he is good. If he were a con artist, he probably would have started off with languages he was good at:) Quite
an amazing difference between this and our own Vlad's recording.


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