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Journeyer
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Message 17 of 19

11 March 2011 at 3:11am | IP Logged

Nice. That's a wise way of seeing it, methinks.
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Solfrid Cristin
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Message 18 of 19

11 March 2011 at 3:20pm | IP Logged

portunhol wrote:

Journeyer wrote:

Portunhol, why do you think this man has studied more of the language rather than just a few phrases from it?

Because I don't know one way or the other. It is actually quite possible that he bought several assimil books and went through them. It is also possible that he spent a lot of time memorizing phrases that he doesn't understand. I actually think a mixture of the two scenarios is what really happened but I could be wrong and I recognize that.

I don't know and the naysayers on this forum do not know either. Instead of quickly imagining the most negative outcome possible and claiming I know something that I do not I choose to leave the door open to other possibilities.

You are a kind soul, portunhol. I like that, and we need kind souls on the forum. I would however tend to side with Jinx. I am not ready to be really impressed, or to declare him a polyglot before I have seen more of him. Nice touch with the 21 languages though, even if what we see is all he knows.

As for the specific languages, the only accent which was native was Italian. Which is - his native language... His Spanish sounded good, but with a clear Italian accent, his English was o.k, his French was horrible, his German mediocre, and his Danish and Swedish did not exactly impress me either. Most of the others I am not really in a position to judge. His Hindi and Albanian may of course be fabolous.

For me this falls under the category "Happy to see someone taking a vivid interest in languages, but waiting to be really impressed until I have seen more of him".

But perhaps I am just a cranky old woman :-)

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Journeyer
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Message 19 of 19

11 March 2011 at 7:27pm | IP Logged

Ditto to Solfrid and Jinx. I'm not exactly naysaying the guy. I just would like to see what else he can do in addition to what he already knows. His enthusiasm for the languages is impressive; most people wouldn't bother looking for sentences after maybe four or five languages.

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