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 1 of 149 30 May 2009 at 5:58pm | IP Logged |
You can now watch my You Tube interview about language learning and polyglottery. It is spoken in 4 languages (English - Deutsch - Nederlands - Esperanto).
Date of recording: 30 May 2009.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSwvQwz78ms
It was great fun to prepare the interview and do the recording. My Dutch friend interviewed me and was my technical team manager.
Fasulye
Edited by administrator on 18 September 2009 at 11:06pm
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cordelia0507 Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5838 days ago 1473 posts - 2176 votes Speaks: Swedish* Studies: German, Russian
| Message 2 of 149 31 May 2009 at 12:55am | IP Logged |
Dutch! Wow! To me you sounded just like a native Dutch person...
I had never heard spoken Esperanto and it was great to be able to hear it for the first time! I could understand quite a lot of what you were saying just from knowing bits of other languages. I really like Esperanto and it's such a pity we can't use it as a language for everyone to communicate in across the EU. It's really genius.
Thanks for posting the video it was great to watch!
EDIT: I have a question actually - I wonder if you could explain a bit about how and when you decided to learn Esperanto. (I think you touched the subject in the video but didn't go into detail. What motivated you to learn this, and why should somebody consider learning it?) What's the situation with accents in Esperanto? You and the interviewer had different "accents" I think?!
Edited by cordelia0507 on 31 May 2009 at 5:16pm
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paparaciii Diglot Senior Member Latvia Joined 6336 days ago 204 posts - 223 votes Speaks: Latvian*, Russian Studies: English
| Message 3 of 149 31 May 2009 at 3:08pm | IP Logged |
cordelia0507 wrote:
I really like Esperanto and it's such a pity we can't use it as a language for everyone to communicate in across the EU. |
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We have English already.
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Sennin Senior Member Bulgaria Joined 6034 days ago 1457 posts - 1759 votes 5 sounds
| Message 4 of 149 31 May 2009 at 3:49pm | IP Logged |
cordelia0507 wrote:
I had never heard spoken Esperanto and it was great to be able to hear it for the first time! I could understand quite a lot of what you were saying just from knowing bits of other languages. I really like Esperanto and it's such a pity we can't use it as a language for everyone to communicate in across the EU. It's really genius. |
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I'm glad we don't. People in China would think we're a bunch of weirdos ^_^.
Edited by Sennin on 31 May 2009 at 3:52pm
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Seljak Triglot Newbie United States Joined 5709 days ago 8 posts - 9 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Serbo-Croatian
| Message 5 of 149 31 May 2009 at 4:51pm | IP Logged |
Way to go, Fasulye! Enjoyed your recording very much.
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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 6 of 149 31 May 2009 at 7:24pm | IP Logged |
Thank you for your supportive comments on my first video recording, Cordelia and Seljak!
Cordelia, you have some interesting questions on my learning of Esperanto, I will file them away for my next You Tube video. We both are very enthousiast about the project and we think about recording a second multilingual video in August/September. What I still don't know is, whether a friend of mine who speaks Italian and French fluently, is willing to inteview me in Italian and French.
I've given the You Tube link also to family, friends and penfriends. I have foreign penfriends with whom I have been corresponding for more than 10 years and I have never met them, so on such a video they see and hear me for the first time and as it seems they very much appreciate this.
Fasulye
Edited by Fasulye on 01 June 2009 at 8:16pm
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Jiwon Triglot Moderator Korea, South Joined 6436 days ago 1417 posts - 1500 votes Speaks: EnglishC2, Korean*, GermanC1 Studies: Hindi, Spanish Personal Language Map
| Message 7 of 149 31 May 2009 at 8:42pm | IP Logged |
Fasulye, thank you very much for the video. I really enjoyed it thoroughly, although I couldn't make out much of Esperanto and Dutch sections. However, it was rather suprising to find that I could understand some words in Dutch without having ever studied the language.
Oh.. and I could understand your German parts quite well.. :) I guess that's a milestone for me.. XD
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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 8 of 149 01 June 2009 at 8:05pm | IP Logged |
Jiwon wrote:
Fasulye, thank you very much for the video. I really enjoyed it thoroughly, although I couldn't make out much of Esperanto and Dutch sections. However, it was rather suprising to find that I could understand some words in Dutch without having ever studied the language.
Oh.. and I could understand your German parts quite well.. :) I guess that's a milestone for me.. XD |
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That's excellent that you could understand my native German. It shows that you are able to understand the authentic language. Some Dutch words are very similar to German because both languages are very closely related. People with a previous knowledge of German will have an advantage to learn Dutch.
I am planning to record a second video in August/September, I see that it will be useful to include some German in it.
Fasulye
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