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| viedums Hexaglot Senior Member Thailand Joined 4663 days ago 327 posts - 528 votes  Speaks: Latvian, English*, German, Mandarin, Thai, French Studies: Vietnamese | Message 1 of 2 13 March 2014 at 3:37pm | IP Logged |
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Interesting post from Language Log here.
Doubletalk of the Month From the comments it's apparent that this young lady is not a polyglot, just amazingly good at imitating accents. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6700 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 2 of 2 13 March 2014 at 5:21pm | IP Logged |
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From the videos themselves it appears that the young lady not only isn't a polyglot, but her ability to imitate the sound of certain languages is also somewhat limited - like when she tries to sound Portuguese around 1.40" - it's not even recognizable as Portuguesic. Other sequences are more convincing. However to her defence she openly admits be to speaking gibberish in the comments on Youtube (cfr my log message from Monday 10), and it is not her fault that people think she knows 30 languages or so. Besides she is quite funny, and that's the saving grace of those videos.
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