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| Wulfgar Senior Member United States Joined 4673 days ago 404 posts - 791 votes  Speaks: English* | Message 1 of 12 24 May 2012 at 7:42am | IP Logged |
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Please vote for the YouTube polyglot you feel is the most skilled at conversation. This is the final. Each finalist
had the most votes in their respective preliminary polls (excluding one person, who opted out). The you tube channel is listed after the name of each finalist. I encourage you to check out their channels yourself. I included a small sample of their work below: Here is a sample of Luca Lampariello’s videos: Spanish French Mandarin English Russian German Swedish Dutch Here is a sample of Steve Kaufmann’s: Mandarin Japanese French Spanish Portuguese Swedish, Cantonese, Italian German Russian And here is a sample of Robert Bigler’s: English Spanish Italian Croatian French Russian Japanese I really like to watch the videos of these masters. They all do what I want to - converse really, really well. I am going through a phase now where I’m trying to take most of my advice from people who have demonstrated a high level of skill, and be a little more leery of those who haven’t. So I thought it would be nice to provide a links to some information about these guys’ learning methods. An Easy Way to Learn Foreign Languages (Luca Lampariello) My language learning credo. (Steve Kauffman) My way of learning languages (Robert Bigler) Edited by Wulfgar on 24 May 2012 at 8:43am 4 persons have voted this message useful | |
| fabriciocarraro Hexaglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Brazil russoparabrasileirosRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4717 days ago 989 posts - 1454 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishB2, Italian, Spanish, Russian, French Studies: Dutch, German, Japanese | Message 2 of 12 24 May 2012 at 10:44pm | IP Logged |
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I think all of them are great and an inspiration for me, but I vote for Luca, since he was the first one I "met" on Youtube and since then he never stopped amazing me with his skills, motivation and will to learn and to share his knowledge with others.
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| Wulfgar Senior Member United States Joined 4673 days ago 404 posts - 791 votes Speaks: English* | Message 3 of 12 25 May 2012 at 9:36am | IP Logged |
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Thanks for your post, fabriciocarraro. I agree - Luca is awesome. I like all three of them. I'm learning Russian, and I
really enjoyed comparing the 3 videos. Totally different. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| drp9341 Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 4914 days ago 115 posts - 217 votes Speaks: Italian, English*, Spanish, Portuguese, French Studies: Japanese | Message 4 of 12 25 May 2012 at 6:01pm | IP Logged |
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Robert Bigler's accent in English amazes me, I would honestly not be 100% sure if he was American or not, (well
as long as he doesn't do that weird changing into a mix of an Irish/Weird English accent thing he was doing for some of his videos. Overall, I would say the best thing about these youtube polyglot videos is that they SHOW us that it is possible to speak languages this incredibly well. I always thought that maybe just Luca was the only one talented enough to get a near perfect accent, but after hearing Robert Bigler speak Italian and English I was super impressed, not to mention his French, which to my ear sounded amazing. I know some people don't like the aspect that this kind of video making sometime implies, and some people think it's showing off, but to be quite honest, before I started watching videos of Luca and even to a lesser extent Benny the Irish polyglot, I didn't study my languages with the end goal of speaking near native like, because I simply didn't believe it possible without "years" of immersion. BUT! Despite my stuttering that tends to drive me crazy with copying accents in foreign languages, I still strive to speak like these people on YouTube! And in doing that I have drastically improved my effectiveness and ambitions with languages in general And to that thank you YouTube polyglots and keep doing what you're doing despite the haters! Haterz gone hate... as they say :D 5 persons have voted this message useful | |
| xiaoma Newbie Taiwan toshuo.com/ Joined 5465 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes Speaks: English* | Message 5 of 12 20 September 2015 at 9:29pm | IP Logged |
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Luca wins for European languages, Steve wins for Asian languages.
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6599 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 6 of 12 21 September 2015 at 7:09pm | IP Logged |
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I'm curious to see Robert Bigler's videos, especially for Russian and Croatian.
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 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6911 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 7 of 12 22 September 2015 at 12:19am | IP Logged |
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If I remember correctly, Robert deleted his account (or at least his videos) a few years ago.
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6599 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 8 of 12 22 September 2015 at 8:29am | IP Logged |
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Bummer. Was he at any polyglot events or similar?
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