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| vilas Pentaglot Senior Member Italy Joined 6949 days ago 531 posts - 722 votes  Speaks: Spanish, Italian*, English, French, Portuguese | Message 1 of 121 12 May 2009 at 10:25pm | IP Logged |
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Have a look on this video and please comment his fluency.
I can say that his English is perfect, so his french and his Spanish . http://www.youtube.com/w atch?v =L3w8y HrqFiQ Edited by Fasulye on 08 December 2011 at 7:10pm 5 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Toffeeliz Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5669 days ago 116 posts - 130 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: Russian | Message 2 of 121 12 May 2009 at 11:50pm | IP Logged |
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Had to get rid of the space between y and H.
His English is great I agree. His skill seems to lie within his accents, I would say it is spotless with English! Just a bit of hesitation marred it. It is low-brow to mention he is quite the looker? ;D 4 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Russianbear Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6764 days ago 358 posts - 422 votes 1 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, Ukrainian Studies: Spanish | Message 3 of 121 13 May 2009 at 12:11am | IP Logged |
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Yes, this guy is amazing. We already discussed him in a couple of other threads. The only chink in the armor seems to be his Russian, but even his Russian is still pretty good, especially the accent. I've seen people with (apparently) less skills than him claim fluency in Russian language, so I would find it hard to object even if he DID claim to be fluent in Russian, which he doesn't. Personally, I have a hard time evaluating his Russian skills based on his videos. When I first saw his Russian video I thought he was definitely less than fluent, but now I think I may have been too critical and maybe it is too hard to tell one way or another. Edited by Russianbear on 13 May 2009 at 12:17am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Witproduct Triglot Newbie Belgium Joined 5668 days ago 19 posts - 20 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, German Studies: French | Message 4 of 121 13 May 2009 at 2:46am | IP Logged |
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His Dutch is okay. His accent a little bit forced, but I have often spoken foreigners who lived in the Netherlands speaking with this accent. Most Dutch themselves speak a little less harsh.
He almost could fool me he's a native speaker. Edited by Witproduct on 13 May 2009 at 2:59am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Woodpecker Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5800 days ago 351 posts - 590 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Written), Arabic (Egyptian) Studies: Arabic (classical) | Message 5 of 121 13 May 2009 at 2:55am | IP Logged |
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I definitely would have said he was a native English speaker, though how a guy from Italy ended up with a Cairo, Illinois, accent, I can only guess.
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| Eduard Decaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6014 days ago 166 posts - 170 votes 2 sounds Speaks: Dutch*, NorwegianC1, Swedish, Danish, English, German, ItalianB1, Spanish, Serbo-Croatian, French Studies: Portuguese | Message 6 of 121 27 May 2009 at 12:10am | IP Logged |
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My experience is that mastering, or at least greatly resembling a native accent in the target language helps in being perceived as being fluent. If you've got your 'like, sort of, kinda' breaker words, that give you time to think, available, people may quickly take you for a native.
This is not meant as critique, it is rather a helpful hint :-). And btw the Italian guy does a good job at speaking the languages. I only cannot say something relevant to his Russian, as I don't speak that language. His Dutch btw sounds better than his Swedish, but as someone else already mentioned, his accent is commonly associated with elite or posh people, comparable to stiff upper lip British English, yet therefore no better or worse than any other kind of standard Dutch. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| paparaciii Diglot Senior Member Latvia Joined 6325 days ago 204 posts - 223 votes Speaks: Latvian*, Russian Studies: English | Message 7 of 121 28 May 2009 at 11:23am | IP Logged |
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I hope one day to speak with the accent that he has got in English. Not in Russian, though. :D
Edited by paparaciii on 28 May 2009 at 11:23am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| cordelia0507 Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5827 days ago 1473 posts - 2176 votes Speaks: Swedish* Studies: German, Russian | Message 8 of 121 28 May 2009 at 9:47pm | IP Logged |
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His Swedish is ok - he sounds like one of the people who arrived to Sweden from Italy during the labour immigration of the 1970s. What he's saying is merely a rant with no particular message. Mostly he's talking about wanting to speak to blonde women, blah, blah. What a cliche! :-) But I am impressed anyway.
It would be interesting to hear what his techniques are, for learning languages. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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