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| Cesare M. Senior Member Canada youtube.com/user/CheRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5172 days ago 99 posts - 135 votes  Speaks: English* | Message 17 of 21 28 November 2010 at 1:59pm | IP Logged | ||
Thanks, I will consider doing that. :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cesare M. Senior Member Canada youtube.com/user/CheRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5172 days ago 99 posts - 135 votes Speaks: English* | Message 18 of 21 28 November 2010 at 2:04pm | IP Logged | ||
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Everybody that posted on this thread, thanks very much for being considerate thoughtful and honest on this
thread. Wish more people were like you guys. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5336 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 19 of 21 29 November 2010 at 11:40am | IP Logged | ||
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I listened to your video this morning, and I agree that it is admirable for an 18 year old to have notions of so many languages. I wish I had known so much at your age.
When I listened to the ones I am familiar with (Italian, French, Spanish, Danish and German) I could not help to notice that your pronunciation is of a varied quality, and that you make so many mistakes, that I am not sure that I would actually say that you speak these languages at all. I see from the above that the same is the case for some of the other languages that I am not familiar with. I was surprised to hear that I actually even had problems understanding your accent in English at times. I suppose that is an interference from your native Italian. Saying that you learned 4 languages in a day would of course also strike a language learner as an impossible feat. I would suggest that you build on your strengths, which is picking up bits of languages very quickly, and focus on a few of them which you perfect. When you make a video of what you say are your best languages and they turn out to be not very good, you lose credibility. If you do take your amazing ability to pick up languages, and focus on a few of them, you could be back at this forum in 6 months and dazzle us all. I look forward to that :-) Edited by Solfrid Cristin on 29 November 2010 at 11:41am 10 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| leosmith Senior Member United States Joined 6552 days ago 2365 posts - 3804 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Tagalog | Message 20 of 21 04 December 2010 at 1:01am | IP Logged | ||
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Cesare, I would like to learn from you.
Would you consider writing a detailed language log for one of your languages? It doesn't have to be Thai - just any language that you would most enjoy writing about. Also, would you consider learning one of your languages to an advanced level - like almost as well as you know English? If you could learn a language to an advanced level quickly, you would probably become much more famous. And if you share with everyone how you do it, the language learning world will be a better place for it. I'm sure I'll learn something very important from it. I have learned several languages, and read about a variation of most methods out there. At this point I think the most important improvements are less tangible changes within. Having a better attitude, being braver, forgiving my own mistakes, etc, are the things I'm talking about here. These are the kinds of things I think you can teach me. And I'm glad to tell you - my friend who speaks Thai better than me (he is close to advanced fluency, IMO) agreed - there is something very native about your speech. We can't put our finger on it. But I feel like when you talk, it's like you are existing in that language. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| futurianus Senior Member Korea, South starlightonclou Joined 5011 days ago 125 posts - 234 votes Speaks: Korean* | Message 21 of 21 29 March 2011 at 8:37pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hi Cesare M.,
Can you give me a working link to your 24 language video? If you have taken it down, can you put it up again and give me the link? For me, the fact that you have attempted to learn so many languages at such a young age itself is something that should be highly admired, irregardless of the level of your attainment thus far, and I think that the more mature people here(in terms of age and life experiences) should encourage and even nurture you in the pursuit of your goals. I see that you are studying Mandarin. I encourage you to master at least one or more of the Far Eastern languages: Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean or Japanese to fill up an important gap in your portfolio. Keep up the good work! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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