Eafonte Triglot Groupie Brazil Joined 6235 days ago 59 posts - 63 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Esperanto, English Studies: Russian
| Message 1 of 15 13 September 2011 at 3:36am | IP Logged |
Ziad Fazah, one of the most controversial characters in Polyglottery Realm, has been
uploading onto his youtube channel (srcforeignlanguages)some videos displaying him
speaking several languages (mandarim, vietnamese, japanese, hindi,arab, hebrew, polish,
russian, swedish, German, English, french, Spanish).
Have you watched them?
Any comments on his language skills?
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Abdalan Triglot Senior Member Brazil abdalan.wordpress.co Joined 5045 days ago 120 posts - 194 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, French, English Studies: German
| Message 2 of 15 13 September 2011 at 4:21am | IP Logged |
OK, he lives in Brazil since a long time ago, but we have to confess, Eafonte: being a
Lebanese, his Portuguese is beyond fluency, it is PERFECT - but even in his Portuguese
video 30% doesn't like it. Maybe the number of I, me, myself?
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Eafonte Triglot Groupie Brazil Joined 6235 days ago 59 posts - 63 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Esperanto, English Studies: Russian
| Message 3 of 15 13 September 2011 at 4:45am | IP Logged |
Yes, his portuguese sounds native.
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Doitsujin Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5319 days ago 1256 posts - 2363 votes Speaks: German*, English
| Message 4 of 15 13 September 2011 at 8:32am | IP Logged |
Ziad Fazah's Youtube channel and his proficiency levels have already been discussed in this thread.
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Eafonte Triglot Groupie Brazil Joined 6235 days ago 59 posts - 63 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Esperanto, English Studies: Russian
| Message 5 of 15 13 September 2011 at 3:49pm | IP Logged |
Yes, but that thread was closed by the moderator, so I think we can´t post there
anymore.
Although Ziad Fazah's proficiency levels in his chinese, English, German and japanese
videos have been discussed in that closed thread, nobody talked over his arab, hindi,
hebrew,swedish, polish and russian videos. It seems that he has added later some of
these languages.
Unless there is an unrepealed ban on such discussion, I think these remaining videos
deserve to be assessed, in spite of the bad reputation Mr. Fazad has and his delusions
of grandeur.
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Maralol Nonaglot Newbie France Joined 5017 days ago 35 posts - 75 votes Speaks: Spanish, French*, English, German, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Portuguese, Catalan Studies: Polish, Danish, Russian, Mandarin, Japanese
| Message 6 of 15 13 September 2011 at 8:45pm | IP Logged |
His French is really good
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napoleon Tetraglot Senior Member India Joined 5015 days ago 543 posts - 874 votes Speaks: Bengali*, English, Hindi, Urdu Studies: French, Arabic (Written)
| Message 7 of 15 13 September 2011 at 9:58pm | IP Logged |
I just watched the video of him speaking Hindi and I must say that I'm impressed. Although he makes quite a few mistakes and his pronounciation is far from perfect, he deserves some credit for his efforts.
Even if his claim of studying the language for only 3 months is untrue, his achievement would still be commendable.
Napoleon.
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patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7014 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map
| Message 8 of 15 16 September 2011 at 10:09pm | IP Logged |
Eafonte wrote:
Unless there is an unrepealed ban on such discussion, I think these remaining videos deserve to be assessed, in spite of the bad reputation Mr. Fazad has and his delusions of grandeur. |
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So do I. If you read the thread Doitsujin mentioned, you'll realise that it was closed because it was becoming unsavoury, with some members flaming others quite needlessly. As long as this does not happen here, there's no reason to close this thread. In other words, let's keep it civil, people!
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