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| Pahife Newbie United States Joined 4401 days ago 6 posts - 6 votes Studies: Spanish | Message 1 of 6 04 September 2012 at 1:08am | IP Logged |
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Hi guys, I have started an organization called PHAIFE, which stands for: Polyglots
Against Hunger Institute For Education. Our mission is to help the hungry via language videos. If people like our videos, they can donate. I feel like this is a way for me to show my love of languages, do something with my time (my high school is very boring), and help others. I have made one video which has a few errors. I would like you guys to look and see if I have some kind of potential. If so, I will gladly redo the video. Here is the link. TI starts with Spanish basics: personal pronouns, infinitives, etc. Tell me what you think! -PAHIFE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxSFHjrUsbs Edited by Pahife on 04 September 2012 at 1:09am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Leurre Bilingual Pentaglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5359 days ago 219 posts - 372 votes  Speaks: French*, English*, Korean, Haitian Creole, SpanishC2 Studies: Japanese | Message 2 of 6 04 September 2012 at 2:45am | IP Logged |
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I'm not sure I understand.
The point is to make language videos and have the viewers of these videos donate to your organization? Couple of thoughts/questions to help you on your way -The first thing that strikes me is that combining languages and hunger is a rather odd concept. Maybe that can work in your favor, but as it is, it just seems almost needlessly random. -One of the reasons you are using language videos for this, and not simply demanding people's money, is to facilitate the idea of an exchange (I give you language videos, you donate). You need to ask yourself why someone would value your videos enough to donate. If there are thousands and thousands of hours of YouTube videos out there explaining basic language concepts, why should someone treat yours any differently by giving your organization money after watching it? Where is the pull? -Lots of charities or nonprofit organizations have a 'hook' which helps to connect the person donating to the task they are donating for. The lack of any of that here just reinforces the randomness of the thing. So I watch a 10 minute video about Spanish verbs, and I all of a sudden am donating to help relieve hunger in Indonesia? Where is the connection between the language and the hunger? And more importantly, where is the connection between myself the donor, and the hunger to be relieved? As it stands, it's zero. -What will you do with the money you get? Are you simply donating it to another charity? To a specific initiative? To several? Who decides where the money goes? What is the geographic spread? If it's a new initiative of some sort, is it sustainable? -Relieving hunger sounds good, but depending on the method can do more harm than good in the long run. So you should tell people how you plan on relieving hunger. Are we talking about emergency humanitarian relief? Long-term food security initiatives? Sustainable agriculture? Food for work, food for school-type programs? -Are you registered as a charity or nonprofit? How will financial transactions take place (not with a personal bank account, I assume)? There are a couple more nitpicky questions/comments that can be raised, but I think those are the most important ones you should try to answer/explain if you already have an answer, and work through. As for the video itself, perhaps some work on the 'rr' pronunciation of correr in your example would be good. I also don't see why you keep saying and writing 'Y'all' instead of just 'you' and indicating that it is plural. I don't really understand why so much time needs to go into reviewing pronouns personally. So yeah, there you go! Hope this is useful. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Wulfgar Senior Member United States Joined 4605 days ago 404 posts - 791 votes Speaks: English* | Message 3 of 6 04 September 2012 at 7:29am | IP Logged |
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Anything to combat hunger is good. Thanks Pahife.
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| manodesi524 Newbie United States Joined 4425 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes | Message 4 of 6 05 September 2012 at 12:25am | IP Logged |
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Lueree, that was a GREAT post. It inspires me to change my game plan. I will start on the
next video ASAP and post it here as soon as I'm done. Thanks everyone for the 5 or 6 views! (Not sarcastic). I feel terrible writing just this after you've written so much about PAHIFE. Thanks again! I am from the south. That explains the y'alls. It's too awkward to say you all for me. Thanks!!! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| manodesi524 Newbie United States Joined 4425 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes | Message 5 of 6 05 September 2012 at 3:33am | IP Logged |
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Just to keep everyone posted, here is a blog that I've started detailing PAHIFE's doings.
check it out if you have time! http://pahifenews.blogspot.com/ 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Wulfgar Senior Member United States Joined 4605 days ago 404 posts - 791 votes Speaks: English* | Message 6 of 6 05 September 2012 at 3:38am | IP Logged |
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You lost me - we're dealing with 1 person and 2 user IDs?
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