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| zerothinking Senior Member Australia Joined 6174 days ago 528 posts - 772 votes  Speaks: English* | Message 1 of 14 31 May 2008 at 9:05pm | IP Logged |
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I remember a few years ago before I was into languages at all, i was talking to my mates grandpa, he was German and spoke English fluently, having lived here for so long, with a reasonably good accent. Anyway, I remember my mate's mum saying he spoke lots of languages, apparently, English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, possibly hungarian and such, They were all european i think. Anyway! The cool thing is, he started learning Chinese because there are lots of chinese people here, and my mate was so amazed that after a few months he was talking to chinese people in chinese and was learning to write it and everything. A year or so later, my mate was like "Yeh he's pretty fluent now" But get this,
He was 80! When he started learning, that's pretty cool! He skipped around countries during the war and such to get out of Germany. He ran away and was being chased and everything! pretty amazing story really. Funny how it just occured to me I met someone with a great language talent and i didnt even realize how cool it was lol 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| ChristopherB Triglot Senior Member New Zealand Joined 6118 days ago 851 posts - 1074 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English*, German, French | Message 2 of 14 01 June 2008 at 2:37am | IP Logged |
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That's pretty cool. Just goes to show, anyone who wants to learn a language can, regardless of age.
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| Cisa Super Polyglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6221 days ago 312 posts - 309 votes 2 sounds Speaks: Hungarian*, Slovak, FrenchC1, EnglishC2, Mandarin, SpanishB2, RussianB2, GermanB2, Korean, Czech, Latin Studies: Italian, Cantonese, Japanese, Portuguese, Polish, Hindi, Mongolian, Tibetan, Kazakh, Vietnamese, Modern Hebrew | Message 3 of 14 01 June 2008 at 2:45am | IP Logged |
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OMG, this is just cool! Another evidence of life-long learning and that languages are not age-limited. Congrats!! :)
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| madass88 Diglot Groupie NorwayRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5870 days ago 83 posts - 98 votes Speaks: English, Norwegian* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin | Message 4 of 14 01 June 2008 at 5:15am | IP Logged |
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sounds like you met michel thomas ;)
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| TheElvenLord Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5882 days ago 915 posts - 927 votes 1 sounds Speaks: Cornish, English* Studies: Spanish, French, German Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin | Message 5 of 14 01 June 2008 at 9:11am | IP Logged |
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Yes, if you have ever read The Test of Courage about Michel Thomas he went all over Europe being chased and picked up languages lol
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 Hencke Tetraglot Moderator Spain Joined 6696 days ago 2340 posts - 2444 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Finnish, EnglishC2, Spanish Studies: Mandarin Personal Language Map | Message 6 of 14 02 June 2008 at 3:45am | IP Logged |
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Good story, thanks for sharing.
I want to be like him when I grow up. ;o). 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| OrlMoth Groupie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6166 days ago 77 posts - 83 votes 2 sounds | Message 7 of 14 03 June 2008 at 12:32am | IP Logged |
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I'll have to bring up that story every time somebody tells me they are to old to learn anything!
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| joannashue Diglot Newbie China Joined 5812 days ago 11 posts - 11 votes Speaks: Mandarin*, EnglishB2 Studies: Spanish, Japanese, Korean | Message 8 of 14 11 June 2008 at 4:41am | IP Logged |
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picking up languages are now my lifetime goal.
but I wonder if I should study one by one or all at once. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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