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Torbyrne Super Polyglot Senior Member Macedonia SpeakingFluently.com Joined 6094 days ago 126 posts - 721 votes Speaks: French, English*, German, Spanish, Dutch, Macedonian, Portuguese, Italian, Swedish, Czech, Catalan, Welsh, Serbo-Croatian Studies: Sign Language, Toki Pona, Albanian, Polish, Bulgarian, TurkishA1, Esperanto, Romanian, Danish, Mandarin, Icelandic, Modern Hebrew, Greek, Latvian, Estonian
| Message 1 of 41 12 March 2011 at 10:16am | IP Logged |
I wanted to let you know about a new polyglot on YouTube, making foreign language videos. His name is Robert and he is an interpreter from Austria.
If you would like to know more, his YouTube channel is:
http://www.youtube.com/user/sprachbegeistert
Enjoy! :)
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jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6908 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map
| Message 2 of 41 13 March 2011 at 12:55am | IP Logged |
Thanks for posting this! So far, I've only watched his five-language video and his Mandarin clip.
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| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5333 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian
| Message 3 of 41 13 March 2011 at 8:25am | IP Logged |
This was a language video I really liked. In his multi-language video he used the same languages I know, so it was easy to evaluate, and he has a really good level. His pronunciation was very good in all his languages, and I did not catch any mistakes, so all in all very well done. I would definitely like to hear more from him, and I wish there were more polyglots like this.
While respecting everyones approach to learning languages, I am personally much more impressed by someone who speaks 5 languages really well (and as far as I can see has a fair knowledge of a numbre of others) than of someone who claims to know 50 languages, but only knows a little in each.
Thank you for bringing this video to our attention, Torbyrne!
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| portunhol Triglot Senior Member United States thelinguistblogger.w Joined 6251 days ago 198 posts - 299 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: German, Arabic (classical)
| Message 4 of 41 14 March 2011 at 4:48pm | IP Logged |
Totally worth checking out Torbyrne, thanks.
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| Andrew C Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom naturalarabic.com Joined 5189 days ago 205 posts - 350 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Written)
| Message 5 of 41 14 March 2011 at 5:34pm | IP Logged |
I would have been interested in hearing how he learned rather than just hearing the results.
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| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5380 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian
| Message 6 of 41 14 March 2011 at 5:47pm | IP Logged |
Andrew C wrote:
I would have been interested in hearing how he learned rather than just hearing the results. |
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Or how long he's been learning for.
I was watching the Japanese clip. If he did that in 1 year, then that's a lot more impressive than if he did it in 3.
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| Splog Diglot Senior Member Czech Republic anthonylauder.c Joined 5668 days ago 1062 posts - 3263 votes Speaks: English*, Czech Studies: Mandarin
| Message 7 of 41 14 March 2011 at 6:18pm | IP Logged |
Arekkusu wrote:
Or how long he's been learning for.
I was watching the Japanese clip. If he did that in 1 year, then that's a lot more
impressive than if he did it in 3. |
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Is it? If somebody learns something quickly, it is admirable that they have gained rapid
results. Yet, if something has learned more slowly, I find it just as admirable that they
stuck with it for as long as it took, when many others would have given up.
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| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5380 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian
| Message 8 of 41 14 March 2011 at 7:02pm | IP Logged |
Splog wrote:
Arekkusu wrote:
Or how long he's been learning for.
I was watching the Japanese clip. If he did that in 1 year, then that's a lot more
impressive than if he did it in 3. |
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Is it? If somebody learns something quickly, it is admirable that they have gained rapid
results. Yet, if something has learned more slowly, I find it just as admirable that they
stuck with it for as long as it took, when many others would have given up. |
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Robert presented at least 7 languages in his videos. He can obviously make rapid progress in his language acquisition. In the case of Japanese, he presents us with an intermediate knowledge. I've met a lot of people who have reached that level over the course of several years; I'd like to know how long it took a gifted polyglot like him.
Learning languages may not be a race, and keeping motivation over time is indeed a challenge, but if someone reached intermediate level in 10 years, I won't be buying his book on how to learn a language.
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