|
 |
Tim from the US (PolyglotPal) on YouTube | ||
Share with:
| ||
 Language Learning Forum : Polyglots |  | |
| Torbyrne Super Polyglot Senior Member Macedonia SpeakingFluently.com Joined 6095 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 204 20 January 2012 at 8:18pm | IP Logged |
|
I wanted to introduce a polyglot, whom our dear friend splog brought to my attention today. He has some very impressive videos and a really interesting range of languages too.
If you fancy checking out his channel and his videos, his handle on YouTube is PolyglotPal Enjoy! :) 12 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Michael K. Senior Member United States Joined 5729 days ago 568 posts - 886 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Esperanto | Message 2 of 204 20 January 2012 at 8:44pm | IP Logged |
|
Thanks for bringing him to our attention, Richard.
I subscribed to his channel, look forward to viewing his videos, and hope he makes more. He said he lives in New York City. I saw an article which said the libraries in NYC had media in dozens of languages and were hiring multilingual librarians to serve the public better. He's in an excellent city to be a polyglot. Edited by Michael K. on 20 January 2012 at 11:10pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6470 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 3 of 204 20 January 2012 at 9:00pm | IP Logged |
|
I watched his Swahili video that he said he recorded after only 3 weeks of study, and
it's just amazing! I want to study his method. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| translator2 Senior Member United States Joined 6919 days ago 848 posts - 1862 votes Speaks: English* | Message 4 of 204 21 January 2012 at 12:43am | IP Logged |
|
Every time I see one of these polyglots on youtube, I cannot help but think back to when I was younger (and naive) and thought that I was the only one in the whole wide world interested in learning multiple languages. I used to have to hide the fact that I was learning languages because people would think you were very, very weird if you told them that is how you were spending your time. The internet certainly has changed that perspective. Edited by translator2 on 21 January 2012 at 5:06pm 4 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Rob_Austria Heptaglot Groupie Austria Joined 5002 days ago 84 posts - 293 votes Speaks: German*, Italian, Spanish, French, English, Portuguese, Japanese Studies: Croatian, Mandarin, Russian, Arabic (Written), Turkish | Message 5 of 204 21 January 2012 at 12:49am | IP Logged |
|
Thanks Richard for posting this link. I discovered Tim yesterday by mere chance and talked to Luca about him today. He has an amazing range of languages, but what I like most about his videos is his enthusiasm. He REALLY seems to enjoy what he is doing and when I heard him say that he is only 16 I was totally blown away. I can't really judge his proficiency in any of his languages (maybe except for Russian), but then again I'm not here to judge but to ENJOY and boy did I enjoy his videos :-) Such an inspirational young guy! Btw, he seems to be getting a lot of praise and constructive comments from native speakers, so I guess he is doing really fine. Anyway, thank you for introducing him to a broader audience.
2 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 6 of 204 21 January 2012 at 2:58am | IP Logged |
|
Yeah I have been one of his subs for a while and he is pretty great. I find it sometimes
a bit hard to believe his proficiency in such short periods of time unless he is giving a scripted presentation, but even if it is scripted it is very impressive. His speaking sounds just so fluid. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| a3 Triglot Senior Member Bulgaria Joined 5256 days ago 273 posts - 370 votes Speaks: Bulgarian*, English, Russian Studies: Portuguese, German, Italian, Spanish, Norwegian, Finnish | Message 7 of 204 21 January 2012 at 7:10am | IP Logged |
|
Does anyone know his method of learning langs?
1 person has voted this message useful | |
| portunhol Triglot Senior Member United States thelinguistblogger.w Joined 6252 days ago 198 posts - 299 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: German, Arabic (classical) | Message 8 of 204 21 January 2012 at 8:20am | IP Logged |
|
He's mind-blowingly good. He MUST be a genius to be going to the University of Illinois at only age 16. I know that raw intelligence is not enough to become proficient in languages. He obviously has a real interest.
He's an exciting addition to the Youtube Polyglots. 4 persons have voted this message useful |
|  | 
Printable version
|
| Copyright 2024 FX Micheloud - All rights reserved No part of this website may be copied by any means without my written authorization. |
