ChristopherB Triglot Senior Member New Zealand Joined 6314 days ago 851 posts - 1074 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English*, German, French
| Message 1 of 7 15 February 2010 at 12:08pm | IP Logged |
I recently came across another polyglot on YouTube, native Spanish-speaker Mario Isla.
He hasn't put up many videos, so far just a demonstration, a Russian resources video and a monologue in Russian. Pretty impressive.
Mario's YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/Olonnais
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Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5554 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona
| Message 2 of 7 16 February 2010 at 4:29pm | IP Logged |
Cool link! Mario's Russian is really quite amazing, and to think he's only been studying for one year as well (with 5 months in Kazakhstan if I heard correctly)...I'm a little suspicious of the earphone of course, but that's probably simply because I'm so jealous that he makes hardly any grammatical mistakes and speaks so colloquially... ;)
Edited by Teango on 16 February 2010 at 4:33pm
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m32amir Heptaglot Groupie Canada youtube.com/user/m32Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5648 days ago 53 posts - 184 votes Speaks: Kazakh, Russian*, English, French, Spanish, German, Italian Studies: Turkish, Mandarin
| Message 3 of 7 17 February 2010 at 9:46pm | IP Logged |
He is very talented guy. And he is only 21.
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Rafaelodias Tetraglot Newbie BrazilRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5391 days ago 11 posts - 17 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Italian, Spanish, English Studies: Japanese
| Message 4 of 7 22 February 2010 at 2:36am | IP Logged |
If his Russian is perfect imagine his Portuguese! Mario has an excellent European Portuguese accent!
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jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6907 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map
| Message 5 of 7 22 February 2010 at 5:55pm | IP Logged |
When I first watched his clips, I thought he had nearly the same prosody/accent in Portuguese and Russian. That was also my first impression when I had a look at "Oxford's Take off in Portuguese" course some years ago.
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proplayer13 Tetraglot Newbie Ukraine Joined 5369 days ago 4 posts - 6 votes Speaks: Russian, Ukrainian*, English, German Studies: Spanish
| Message 6 of 7 12 March 2010 at 7:00am | IP Logged |
I felt so frustrated because I could not understand much of what he said in Spanish or in Galego...
I can only judge his English-speaking skills and his Russian. He speaks Russian phenomenally! I would say he has about 90% of native speaker's pronunciation. But not only that. The way he constructs sentences is impressive. That would be really interesting for me to see him speaking German someday...
ya veremos :-)
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Cesare M. Senior Member Canada youtube.com/user/CheRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5168 days ago 99 posts - 135 votes Speaks: English*
| Message 7 of 7 16 November 2010 at 12:44am | IP Logged |
Yes he is very good but he has put me down and has said very rude things to me on Skype. He has said
things like "You are an offense to linguists", which is really hurtful.
Edited by Cesare M. on 16 November 2010 at 12:44am
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