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| fanatic Octoglot Senior Member Australia speedmathematics.com Joined 7230 days ago 1152 posts - 1818 votes  Speaks: English*, German, French, Afrikaans, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Dutch Studies: Swedish, Norwegian, Polish, Modern Hebrew, Malay, Mandarin, Esperanto | Message 9 of 35 19 September 2006 at 1:48am | IP Logged | ||
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I just watched and taped a repeat of the program. I was most impressed.
I want to get a copy of his book. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Journeyer Triglot Senior Member United States tristan85.blogspot.c Joined 6952 days ago 946 posts - 1110 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German Studies: Sign Language | Message 10 of 35 19 September 2006 at 1:51am | IP Logged | ||
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Is this documentary available on DVD/VHS somewhere? I'd like to see it, but I have no idea when it is on. I didn't see any copies listed on his website, but at the time I was looking more at his blog than anywhere else.
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| lengua Senior Member United States polyglottery.wordpre Joined 6768 days ago 549 posts - 595 votes Studies: French, Italian, Spanish, German | Message 11 of 35 19 September 2006 at 1:26pm | IP Logged | ||
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The two clips at the Wisconsin medical site are definitely very interesting. He hasn't posted much about language on his blog yet, but we could always ask him to. I find his interest in languages motivating, as if he can learn ten languages with his gifts, there isn't any reason why any one of us couldn't learn as much with ours.
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 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6787 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 12 of 35 19 September 2006 at 1:45pm | IP Logged | ||
Oh yes, one reason: most of us don't remember everything we hear (at least I don't) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| lengua Senior Member United States polyglottery.wordpre Joined 6768 days ago 549 posts - 595 votes Studies: French, Italian, Spanish, German | Message 13 of 35 19 September 2006 at 2:14pm | IP Logged | ||
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True - but most of us don't have the troubles he faces in his everyday life. What we lack in aptitude can be made up with effort.
For example, it might only take Tammert 100 hours to learn Icelandic. But the average motivated person could do it in 400 - perhaps half that. With the right materials and methods, all anyone needs is time and effort. This summer, I would like to pick three random languages, and see how far I can get in each of them in ~100 hours before calling a native on Skype. Edited by lengua on 19 September 2006 at 2:16pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6787 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 14 of 35 19 September 2006 at 4:32pm | IP Logged | ||
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It might be a fun experiment. Personally I have got a couple of old languages that need refreshing before I start experimenting with new ones.
By the way I have been doing a bit of work myself on Icelandic lately. It is not too hard to arrive at the stage where you can read sagas, but getting an active competence in the language is quite another matter: the morphology is twice as evil as that of the German language, and people up there have spent the last thousand years inventing bizarre idioms. I won't get 'basic' this year, but maybe intermediate. And one thing more: I have seen the program with Tammert learning Icelandic twice now. I cannot judge how many errors he did, but it seemed to me that he didn't quite seem at ease speaking the language yet. But he could express himself well enough for the purpose of the interview, and I'm duly impressed. Edited by Iversen on 19 September 2006 at 4:36pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5931 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 15 of 35 27 March 2012 at 5:53pm | IP Logged | ||
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I found the article: "Ten Most Fascinating Savants in the World" on the Neatorama website.
Here is the link: Article: 10 Most Fascinating Svants in the World Also Daniel Tammet is presented here! Fasulye 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Michael K. Senior Member United States Joined 5813 days ago 568 posts - 886 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Esperanto | Message 16 of 35 27 March 2012 at 8:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks for the list, Fasulye.
I've heard of some of the savants before, such as the brain damaged sculptor and the man who can do extrordinary calendar calculations after he got hit in the head. Here's a video about Christopher Taylor , a British man with severe brain damage who knows several languages, who was also mentioned in "Babel no More." Edit: Because it was mentioned, the first part of The Boy with the Incredible Brain Edited by Michael K. on 27 March 2012 at 8:56pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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