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| Zorrillo Pentaglot Groupie United States Joined 6384 days ago 41 posts - 82 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Sign Language, Spanish, Polish Studies: Greek, Georgian, Indonesian | Message 9 of 204 21 January 2012 at 10:17am | IP Logged | ||
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Yeah he's really good. He speaks with the flow and ease of someone who is quite advanced...and yet he is apparently relatively new to foreign languages. Impressive. And what a collection of exotics he has amassed- Swahili, Arabic, Persian...Funny that I've yet to hear him speak English!
Looking forward to hearing more from this young polyglot. 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 10 of 204 06 March 2012 at 9:26pm | IP Logged | ||
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Tim made a video yesterday of him speaking Hindi:
Tim Speaks Hindi/टिम हिंदी बोलते है http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niOGFw36ueU Edited by Michael K. on 06 March 2012 at 9:27pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| 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 12 of 204 09 March 2012 at 9:29pm | IP Logged | ||
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Enjoy this New York Times piece on Tim. And yes, I did notice that it says that I run this
forum...now that's what I call an instant promotion on the site! ;p Here is the direct link to the video too... Edited by Torbyrne on 09 March 2012 at 10:08pm 10 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Lucky Charms Diglot Senior Member Japan lapacifica.net Joined 6949 days ago 752 posts - 1711 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: German, Spanish | Message 13 of 204 10 March 2012 at 4:48am | IP Logged | ||
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Tim is amazing! And the talk in the article about "inborn talent" is doing him a
discredit. The "secret" to his success, as far as I can tell, is the fact that he dedicates up to 15 hours a day (!) to his obsession - no language gene, no revolutionary method (unless he's leaving something out), just the hours, consistency, and passion. To me, the example he sets is really inspiring. EDIT: In the video he can be seen visiting HTLAL, so he may already be lurking among us here. Hi, Tim! :D Edited by Lucky Charms on 10 March 2012 at 7:01pm 5 persons have voted this message useful | |||
 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 14 of 204 10 March 2012 at 7:30am | IP Logged | ||
Thanks a lot for posting this specific link! This is the first press article in which the online polyglot community is presented, because previous press articles were always featuring a speacial polyglot, or polyglots in general in combination with Michael Erard's book on the hyperpolylgots. What a joke, to call Richard the owner of the HTLAL - language forum!!! Journalists should do some better research before they make such a statement. Fasulye 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| egill Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5696 days ago 418 posts - 791 votes Speaks: Mandarin, English* Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch | Message 15 of 204 11 March 2012 at 1:45pm | IP Logged | ||
There's an account called Polyglotpal, created more than a year ago, last visit on March 10th, linking to his Youtube account, and with the name Timothy. So barring some carefully orchestrated subterfuge, I'd say you're intuition's right. Hi Tim :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| 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 16 of 204 11 March 2012 at 3:13pm | IP Logged | ||
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The article in THE NEW YORK TIMES mentioned by Torbyrne with the title "Adventures of a Teenage Polyglot" featuring Tim is also recommendable to read because it has also nine postitve on-topic comments and there will be a vivid discussion about the online polyglot community and polyglots in general. Susanna Zaraysky and I posted a comment to the article just to mention us two polyglots.
Press Article: The New York Times: Adventures of a Teenage Polyglot Fasulye Edited by Fasulye on 11 March 2012 at 3:15pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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