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| cordelia0507 Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5838 days ago 1473 posts - 2176 votes  Speaks: Swedish* Studies: German, Russian | Message 49 of 66 14 August 2009 at 7:18pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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MrHenrik means business with his Japanese studies - I think his commitment, discipine and steady progress are inspiring.
Personally I have never met a Scandinavian person who has learnt to speak it well. Too bad Turaisiawase left the forum because he was really good at Japanese and teaching it. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
 Jiwon Triglot Moderator Korea, South Joined 6436 days ago 1417 posts - 1500 votes Speaks: EnglishC2, Korean*, GermanC1 Studies: Hindi, Spanish Personal Language Map | Message 50 of 66 14 August 2009 at 7:34pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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And soon, you'll be on this list too, cordelia, seeing the amount of dedication you seem to have for Russian language and culture. :)
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| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7015 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 51 of 66 14 August 2009 at 8:04pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
How do you know he was good at teaching it? P.S. Don't worry about his leaving, I'm sure he'll be back soon enough. There's something about this place which he finds irresistible and he's inexorably drawn back time and time again. Edited by patuco on 14 August 2009 at 8:15pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Jiwon Triglot Moderator Korea, South Joined 6436 days ago 1417 posts - 1500 votes Speaks: EnglishC2, Korean*, GermanC1 Studies: Hindi, Spanish Personal Language Map | Message 52 of 66 14 August 2009 at 8:11pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Under a differnt name you mean. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7015 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 53 of 66 14 August 2009 at 8:31pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Obviously! Perhaps we should start a poll on what his new name could be. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Marc Frisch Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6665 days ago 1001 posts - 1169 votes Speaks: German*, French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Persian, Tamil | Message 54 of 66 14 August 2009 at 11:29pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
I'm not sure either, but he probably has a near-native command of Turkish and Persian, judging by his extremely accurate comments on those languages. He used to be the ultimate resource for Persian in this forum (with Alexander Arguelles being a close second). And he used German books to study them, so I guess he's pretty good in German as well (IIRC from the personal communications we had, the same goes for French). But he hasn't posted in this forum for quite a while, maalesef. I think Iversen is the perfect role model for me. According to his posts and profile, he's just a regular guy working in a non language-related field, whose hobbies (zoology, languages, and traveling) pushed him to learn quite a number of languages. So if he can do it, why shouldn't I (I work as an IT-consultant myself and devote a lot of time to language study and traveling). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Marc Frisch Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6665 days ago 1001 posts - 1169 votes Speaks: German*, French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Persian, Tamil | Message 55 of 66 14 August 2009 at 11:39pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Coming to think of it: Has nobody mentioned Alexander Arguelles as an impressive language learner in this thread?
He's certainly quite obsessive about language learning with his extreme focus on literary language, but judging by the personal communications I've had with him, he certainly is THE best-versed capacity on Germanic and Romance languages on this forum - and I'm not even talking about the other languages he speaks (Korean, Russian, Arabic, Persian, Hindi,...). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| mrhenrik Triglot Moderator Norway Joined 6079 days ago 482 posts - 658 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, French Personal Language Map | Message 56 of 66 14 August 2009 at 11:44pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Waah! Me! ^^ Thank you! I have never met any Scandinavians who speak it well either, but I do know/have heard of several who studies it. Also, apparently my father's cousin works in Japan. Turaisiawase was really helpful yes, with a lot of great resources on Japanese. I haven't been advanced enough to use them just yet, but I think I might just give them a try soon. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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