Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5846 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 3 13 August 2010 at 10:04am | IP Logged |
I would like to present Frank Klichowski who is a polyglot speaking 15 languages and a language teacher at the VHS (= Volkshochschule) in NRW, Germany, for the languages Danish, Norwegian and Thai.
There is a newspaper article in German about him:
http://www.rp-online.de/niederrheinsued/krefeld/nachrichten/ Der-Mann-der-15-Sprachen-spricht_aid_892752.html
What a coincidence that such a polyglot offers a Danish course at the VHS in the city where I live and I was looking for a Danish course anyway!
Summary of the German article:
He was raised billingually in German / Danish and speaks also Japanese and Navajo, Thai and some European languages.
Next week I will register for one of his two Danish courses...
Fasulye
Edited by Fasulye on 13 August 2010 at 10:10am
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Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6702 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 3 13 August 2010 at 1:41pm | IP Logged |
Rather surprising that there is a Danish course in your own town .. and he has a very interesting combination of languages!
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Torbyrne Super Polyglot Senior Member Macedonia SpeakingFluently.com Joined 6094 days ago 126 posts - 721 votes Speaks: French, English*, German, Spanish, Dutch, Macedonian, Portuguese, Italian, Swedish, Czech, Catalan, Welsh, Serbo-Croatian Studies: Sign Language, Toki Pona, Albanian, Polish, Bulgarian, TurkishA1, Esperanto, Romanian, Danish, Mandarin, Icelandic, Modern Hebrew, Greek, Latvian, Estonian
| Message 3 of 3 13 August 2010 at 2:13pm | IP Logged |
Thanks for sharing this with us Fasulye. It is interesting to read that he believes anyone can learn Thai in two years. In my most recent video, I described Thai as a class 2 language in the UK Foreign Office system for classifying hard languages for English-speakers to learn.
Class 2 languages are often considered to be relatively difficult for English speakers to learn. That said, the FCO courses for such languages usually run for one year max. and can bring the student up to a solid conversational level in the language. This is a year of serious intensive study though.
I am glad you will get the chance to study Danish with Frank Klichowski and I look forward to hearing more from you about your experiences of learning in his class.
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