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 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5845 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes  1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 1 of 19 05 March 2011 at 4:55pm | IP Logged | ||
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I want to present a polyglot and guitarist from Italy to you who has impressed me with his You Tube video in 21 languages.
Here is the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBV-bZMG7wk The title of this video: "hablando 21 idiomas" Fasulye Edited by Fasulye on 05 March 2011 at 4:58pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6701 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 19 05 March 2011 at 5:11pm | IP Logged | ||
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You are fast, Fasulye: I was only nr. 4 to watch that video!
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| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6009 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 3 of 19 06 March 2011 at 2:43pm | IP Logged | ||
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Impressive, but he should use his powers for good, not evil.
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| etracher Triglot Groupie Italy Joined 5332 days ago 92 posts - 180 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish Studies: Modern Hebrew, Russian, Latvian | Message 4 of 19 06 March 2011 at 8:34pm | IP Logged | ||
Come now, Cainntear, perhaps he has found the cure for hair loss- or perhaps my dream of defeating my receeding hairline is pulling me over to the dark side... Anyhow, he has mastered creepy infomercial intonation in 21 languages and that in itself is something of an accomplishment. Edited by etracher on 06 March 2011 at 8:35pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5691 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish | Message 5 of 19 06 March 2011 at 9:23pm | IP Logged | ||
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I was very impressed and entertained by his video. I would be even more impressed and entertained if he demonstrated an ability to talk about multiple topics instead of just reciting the same spiel over and over. All the same, I take my hat off to him.
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| Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6701 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 6 of 19 07 March 2011 at 12:19am | IP Logged | ||
Well, deeming from the picture you still have hair on your head so you can take your hat off without arousing his professional interest. Some of us should take care... 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Journeyer Triglot Senior Member United States tristan85.blogspot.c Joined 6866 days ago 946 posts - 1110 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German Studies: Sign Language | Message 7 of 19 07 March 2011 at 7:06am | IP Logged | ||
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I second Jinx. I'm not ready to call him a polyglot until I've seen that he can actually use those languages rather than have a few memorized phrases.
Still, he presented himself well and aside from an obvious accent, seemed to have a fairly decent pronunciation on lots of the languages, from what I could tell. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6009 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 8 of 19 07 March 2011 at 12:55pm | IP Logged | ||
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It's one of the biggest, most blatant astroturfings I've ever seen.
Not only is he using the Web 2.0 polyglot video format, but he's got a professional film-crew in to film it, yet the camera's been tilted at an angle to make it look a bit webcam-like, and there's that fake phone call in the middle to try to fake video-blog spontaneity. The evidence for the prosecution: * wide angle view without vignetting or distortion. * very few compression artifacts * even, steady lighting regardless of how much he moves about (webcams autocorrect lighting -- the wall would have been a different colour behind the guitar-playing bit and the talky bit) * shadows on the sofa and lighting on face betray the use of studio-standard lighting setup * camera is at a height that gives a very flattering angle, and is unlikely from a cheap webcam. Horrible, nasty nasty astroturfing. Kill it before it grows. EDIT: second spelling of astroturf -- don't know why I did it like that. Edited by Cainntear on 07 March 2011 at 3:33pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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