|
 |
5 Years old Mabou Loiseau Speak 7 Langs | ||
Tags: Young polyglot | Children | ||
Share with:
| ||
 Language Learning Forum : Polyglots |  | |
| sillygoose1 Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 4634 days ago 566 posts - 814 votes  Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish, French Studies: German, Latin | Message 9 of 18 09 May 2012 at 4:24pm | IP Logged | ||
|
It's weird how that works. I've always thought the opposite for myself. Edited by sillygoose1 on 09 May 2012 at 4:24pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5379 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 10 of 18 09 May 2012 at 4:32pm | IP Logged | ||
|
$1500 a week?!? On a parking attendant's salary?
2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Midnight Diglot Groupie Czech Republic Joined 4637 days ago 54 posts - 111 votes Speaks: Czech*, English | Message 11 of 18 09 May 2012 at 5:04pm | IP Logged | ||
|
I'd also love to live there. It's a pain I can't practice my spoken English anywhere but on Paltalk once in a while. I'd like to have an immersion to become native-like. But there are many cons too.
1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| prz_ Tetraglot Senior Member Poland last.fm/user/prz_rul Joined 4857 days ago 890 posts - 1190 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Bulgarian, Croatian Studies: Slovenian, Macedonian, Persian, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Dutch, Swedish, German, Italian, Armenian, Kurdish | Message 12 of 18 09 May 2012 at 10:28pm | IP Logged | ||
Oh my! I've thought that during the last decade the myth of American dream has been demythologized. How... wrong I was?! Btw, if she dislikes Norway so much, I should invite her to Poland. Or even better - let her visit Iran (not to mention Afghanistan). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4705 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 13 of 18 10 May 2012 at 12:13pm | IP Logged | ||
|
Iranis are really nice people though - it's only the government that sucks.
1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| zdri Newbie United States Joined 6277 days ago 29 posts - 74 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian | Message 14 of 18 11 May 2012 at 2:22am | IP Logged | ||
and we could never afford tutors. The salary isn't the barrier, the real problem stems from American social conventions. Such as making huge investments (remember when a house was considered a safe investment?) and living in a "nice" neighborhood. This little girl lives in Queens. I have read other news stories like this. I read an article a while ago about ambitious Eastern European immigrants living in NYC and becoming successful. In the article, someone who works at a private school remarked that immigrants are the only parents who ever question the usefulness of paying for an exorbitant meal plan. I don't think Mabau's parents are from Eastern Europe, but the same attitude still applies. I wish I had a childhood like Mabou's. I often asked my parents to homeschool me as a child. Unfortunately they never did. Society has a prejudice against home-schooled children but studies show they are usually smarter and better socially adjusted. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| futurianus Senior Member Korea, South starlightonclou Joined 5007 days ago 125 posts - 234 votes Speaks: Korean* | Message 15 of 18 16 May 2012 at 5:51pm | IP Logged | ||
|
Thank you tmp011007 for this great information about Mabou.
What a phenomenal thing this is, Mabou and her parents! I now have much more information about young global and translingual kids--Wendy Vo and Mabou Loiseau and feel quite happy about it. With Mabou, some aspects about them are becoming much clearer. These kids are embodying so much important informations about language acquisition not only for the young kids, but also for the adults, for all language learners, and so much significant implications for our future educational approaches and systems, for our changing future trends. I was much moved by her mother's love for her kid, by all the aspirations and dreams that she has for her. The greatness of mother's love, life shaping a new life, transmitting such a great value to Mabou! What an exciting energy of love, that had the courage, creativity, conviction and commitment to actualize such a daring vision for Mabou! What a decisive enterprising spirit that will not accept the mediocrity of our present education system, but courageously and wholeheartedly attempt to chart a new course to realize a newer and higher vision of how they want Mabou to grow up to be! What a super mom! What a supportive dad! What a precious kid! With much admiration and respect for the parents of Mabou, and wishing them and Mabou all the best in their continued exciting journey together through such an exceptional path.... Edited by futurianus on 17 May 2012 at 6:50am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5379 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 16 of 18 16 May 2012 at 6:01pm | IP Logged | ||
|
In all honesty, I'm not so enthusiastic. When I watched some videos of her, I couldn't help think this was a well trained child, no more. They essentially always rehash the same information in all the languages and her answers tend not to be very elaborate and a lot of it feels rehearsed. And then there's the dad asking her in Creole what her mom's name is and looking all proud... Come on.
Anyway, it's hard to get an accurate understanding of what is going on just from a video, other than the fact that the parents and the girl like the media attention. I wish them the best of luck. 2 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. |
