|
 |
Ziad Fazah´s youtube channel | ||
Tags: Ziad Fazah | Youtube Polyglot | ||
Share with:
| ||
 Language Learning Forum : Polyglots |  | |
| Journeyer Triglot Senior Member United States tristan85.blogspot.c Joined 6870 days ago 946 posts - 1110 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, German Studies: Sign Language | Message 9 of 15 24 September 2011 at 8:57pm | IP Logged | |||||
|
I showed his video to a friend of mine who is a native Polish speaker and also speaks fluent Japanese, Spanish, and an African language he doesn't claim to speak.
Anyway, she looked at the Polish one and said he didn't do too bad, particularly for someone who had only three months. She also said the same thing about his Japanese. I can't speak either language so I can't validate her review either way. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Saim Pentaglot Senior Member AustraliaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5085 days ago 124 posts - 215 votes Speaks: Serbo-Croatian, English*, Catalan, Spanish, Polish Studies: Dutch, Portuguese, Italian, Occitan, Punjabi, Urdu, Arabic (Maghribi), French, Modern Hebrew, Ukrainian, Slovenian | Message 10 of 15 29 September 2011 at 5:31am | IP Logged | |||||
I'm far from impressed. Anyone could flip through a phrasebook and produce a 1 (1!) minute video of themself talking in a language they don't know at all. "Main hindi bolte hun" is a pretty basic mistake, is it not? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| napoleon Tetraglot Senior Member India Joined 5018 days ago 543 posts - 874 votes Speaks: Bengali*, English, Hindi, Urdu Studies: French, Arabic (Written) | Message 11 of 15 29 September 2011 at 6:55am | IP Logged | |||||
|
If he were speaking Urdu, "Hum Hindi bolte hain." would be perfectly acceptable.
In Hindi we say, "Main Hindi bolta hun." He seems to have rendered a pidgin of the two. Still, I could understand the basic premise of his sentence, he said: "I speak Hindi". There were a few other errors in the video too, but he deserves credit for his efforts does he not? After all, to err is human, etc. Napoleon 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6705 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 15 29 September 2011 at 8:06am | IP Logged | |||||
|
Maybe he has made an effort to read up some of his old languages after the disaster with the video that was publicized on Youtube? This still doesn't mean that he would be able to have a regular conversation in all the languages he claims to speak. I have personally made videos in languages where I would have problems to have a conversation due to lack of speaking and listening practice. Making a video after thinking about what to say, looking words up, noting down things that might come in handy and finally organizing your thoughts before actually pressing the 'record' button is quite another thing than having a simple conversation with a living person. I don't say that it is more easy or more difficult - it's just a different kind of task. There are probably also people who couldn't put a video together, but who have discussions in their target languages on a daily basis. Now we know at least that Ziad Fazah can make videos, and unless he continues to call himself the greatist living polyglot my curiosity stops there. Edited by Iversen on 29 September 2011 at 9:38am 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Saim Pentaglot Senior Member AustraliaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5085 days ago 124 posts - 215 votes Speaks: Serbo-Croatian, English*, Catalan, Spanish, Polish Studies: Dutch, Portuguese, Italian, Occitan, Punjabi, Urdu, Arabic (Maghribi), French, Modern Hebrew, Ukrainian, Slovenian | Message 13 of 15 02 October 2011 at 10:59am | IP Logged | |||||
I don't think he does, because he's not actually interested in learning Hindi. He's just parroting a few paragraphs to feed his ego. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| schoenewaelder Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5562 days ago 759 posts - 1197 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch | Message 14 of 15 02 October 2011 at 7:53pm | IP Logged | |||||
Go get him, Tiger. Edited by schoenewaelder on 02 October 2011 at 7:54pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Venustus Pentaglot Newbie BrazilRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4804 days ago 14 posts - 21 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English, Italian, Spanish, Russian Studies: Polish | Message 15 of 15 02 October 2011 at 8:29pm | IP Logged | |||||
|
He can perfectly speak Portuguese, and if any Brazilian watch this video, this person
will say that he's a native speaker. It's important to add that the Brazilian Portuguese is not easy to reach perfection, and even the people that live here for a long time can't speak as well as a native Brazilian. He is not so laudable, though. 1 person has voted this message useful |
If you wish to post a reply to this topic you must first login. If you are not already registered you must first register
|  | 
Printable version
|
| Copyright 2024 FX Micheloud - All rights reserved No part of this website may be copied by any means without my written authorization. |
