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| Liface Triglot Senior Member United States youtube.com/user/Lif Joined 5654 days ago 150 posts - 237 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Spanish Studies: Dutch, French | Message 9 of 14 17 July 2010 at 5:50am | IP Logged | |||||
This is correct. J1J8 is German and has lived in Den Haag, as well as Scotland. I recommend subscribing to him, his videos are pretty funny. I've asked him and apparently he speaks German at home with his family. Edited by Liface on 17 July 2010 at 5:52am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Journeyer Triglot Senior Member United States tristan85.blogspot.c Joined 6664 days ago 946 posts - 1110 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German Studies: Sign Language | Message 10 of 14 20 July 2010 at 6:26am | IP Logged | |||||
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Very inspiring, although since he's lived in the environments it's a little different. His American is very good, but not quite native, though.
It inspired me to work on my colloquial language skills, though. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| KCor Groupie United States Joined 4804 days ago 50 posts - 72 votes | Message 11 of 14 24 July 2011 at 2:28pm | IP Logged | |||||
Not trying to knock him, but his American sounds very exaggerated and a bit stupid to me. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Journeyer Triglot Senior Member United States tristan85.blogspot.c Joined 6664 days ago 946 posts - 1110 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German Studies: Sign Language | Message 12 of 14 24 July 2011 at 7:42pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I forgot about this video, hehe.
Listening to it again, I agree with you it does sound exaggerated, but I still thought it was good because in all of those samples he was trying to do a particular dialect or accent rather than the general "national" (so to speak) one. So I said that because I can easily imagine people speaking like that. I would think they sounded a bit silly, but not necessarily non-native, which is what I based my judgement on. That said it didn't sound 100% perfect, but still very good. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Zwlth Super Polyglot Senior Member United States Joined 5022 days ago 154 posts - 320 votes Speaks: English*, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Arabic (Written), Dutch, Swedish, Portuguese, Latin, French, Persian, Greek | Message 13 of 14 26 July 2011 at 4:15am | IP Logged | |||||
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He's clearly got a very good ear for languages, but he is a multilingual individual, not a polyglot. I listen to him and I think how lucky he is to have grown up in those circumstances and I wish that I had his talent. But, I don't admire him for his achievements the way I admire hard working polyglots.
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 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6499 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 14 of 14 27 July 2011 at 2:08pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Well, some people are lucky to learn a few languages as children, and working hard is definitely admirable in itself. But the net result is a person who knows a fair number of languages, and then it is less important where they came from. At least that's my position.
Funny guy, by the way, and an amazing talent for picking up dialects. Edited by Iversen on 27 July 2011 at 2:14pm 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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