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 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5837 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 33 of 80 31 August 2010 at 2:38pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I would like to introduce Torbyrne's newest You Tube video with the title:
"Easy and hard languages & the British Foreign Office" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwhAKfM-Jo8 It's spoken in English with English subtitles and it's about categorizing languages seen from native speakers of English. For me this video gives interesting information. Fasulye Edited by Fasulye on 30 August 2011 at 12:13pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5837 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 34 of 80 02 April 2011 at 11:07am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Let me introduce to you Torbyrne's latest video in which he speaks about learning Welsh as a foreign language and presents the BBC resources of Welsh. In this videos he also speaks some words of Welsh so I have got a very faint idea how Welsh sounds.
You Tube video: Torbyrne speaks about Welsh resources BBC website: Learn Welsh Fasulye Edited by Fasulye on 02 April 2011 at 11:30am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Kinan Diglot Senior Member Syrian Arab Republic Joined 5556 days ago 234 posts - 279 votes Speaks: Arabic (Written)*, English Studies: Russian, Spanish | Message 35 of 80 02 April 2011 at 2:02pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Why did he post in youtube then?!!!!! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Torbyrne Super Polyglot Senior Member Macedonia SpeakingFluently.com Joined 6085 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 37 of 80 05 April 2011 at 1:29pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
I thought I would copy and paste here something I wrote elsewhere on the forum, so you can read my motivations for creating a YouTube channel and posting videos: From Robert from Austria on YouTube "My own motivations were: 1. To encourage other people learning or wishing to learn multiple foreign languages (as I wrote in the role models thread). 2. To get in contact with other polyglots in a bid to start polyglot-skyping and share experiences. 3. To provide a demonstration of me saying something in a range of languages I speak at different levels. Why? Throughout my life people have asked me to do this in person. It therefore seemed logical that this sort of video would appeal to people wishing to see something that relatively few people in the world do (that is to say, learn multiple languages). Doing this for simple praise or to show off would be fairly pointless and shallow. It is, of course, nice to receive the many lovely comments people take their time to send me. I feel truly flattered by those. There are also a fair amount of negative criticisms too. Many negative comments are impossible to address. Besides, pleasing everyone is neither a realistic goal nor is it a productive use of one’s time and energy. Some comments require a thick skin and others provide a nice bite of reality to keep one grounded. Perhaps there are individuals who create multilingual videos to get a short buzz out of the attention from unknown people over the Internet. Personally I cannot relate to that and I am not inclined to comment on such things as it is irrelevant to me. My own contentment about what I am doing with languages is the most gratifying. Having conversations with speakers of various tongues in their own language is exhilarating for me. There is the thrill of the chase in attaining fluency, using a language with native speakers and expressing thoughts and ideas in that language. That is the reason why point 2 on my list is the main personal buzz and motivation for me too." I would also like to copy and paste the description of the 16-language video I put up: "This is a video with me speaking some of the languages I have studied over the years with captions in English. In this video I speak English, French, Spanish, Welsh, German, Macedonian, Swedish, Italian, Serbian/Bosnian/Croatian, Portuguese, Czech, Catalan, Russian, Dutch, Romanian and Albanian. I hope you enjoy it." I have answered some questions regarding fluency and non-European languages previously elsewhere, and it might be useful to state it here also. I have studied other languages besides the ones mentioned. I do not claim to be fluent in all of the languages in the video. In fact I purposely took some languages at a lower level to show a range. Polyglots have to start somewhere too! ;) At the moment I am studying Mandarin every day (and I will update on that separately). I learn languages to the level I need them for work/social reasons and I also consider what I can realistically sustain in the long-term. I am Brit living in Macedonia. Presumably I will take Turkish to a higher level at some point as I can use it here, but I have no need for many languages outside the IE family. At the moment my need or work and life in general require me to speak IE languages for the most part. My motto for languages is: If you don't use it, you're going to lose it! :D Learning languages takes a long time and is a labour of love, so I am not going to invest my time and energy into learning languages I could not possibly hope to maintain or use to my satisfaction. Edited by Torbyrne on 05 April 2011 at 1:49pm 21 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5837 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 38 of 80 30 August 2011 at 12:11pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Torbyrne has spent a month in Poland speaking Polish there. More infos about his experiences there he gives in his newest You Tube - videos. Both videos are not spoken in English but he uses subtitles in English.
1. In Spanish: Torbyrne habla de la Polonia en español 2. In Dutch: Torbyrne spreekt over Polen in het Nederlands Enjoy! Fasulye Edited by Fasulye on 31 August 2011 at 8:40am 5 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5837 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 39 of 80 12 December 2011 at 6:12am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Bonan sxancon por via Turka ekzameno! (Esperanto)
Türk sınavin için başarılar dilerim! (Türkçe) Succes with your Turkish exam! (English) Fasulye 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| pesahson Diglot Senior Member Poland Joined 5718 days ago 448 posts - 840 votes Speaks: Polish*, English Studies: French, Portuguese, Norwegian | Message 40 of 80 03 April 2012 at 9:23am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Steve Kaufman posted this interview with Richard today on his channel.
I hope you find it interesting. LINK 6 persons have voted this message useful |
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