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| portunhol Triglot Senior Member United States thelinguistblogger.w Joined 6048 days ago 198 posts - 299 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: German, Arabic (classical) | Message 9 of 41 14 March 2011 at 7:06pm | IP Logged | |||||
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In addition to his multilingual video, I saw his Chinese one. I don't speak the language but I thought his Mandarin sounded really, really good.
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| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5177 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 10 of 41 14 March 2011 at 9:49pm | IP Logged | |||||
And the answer is on-and-off for 3 years, including a 3-month stay in Japan. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| ChristopherB Triglot Senior Member New Zealand Joined 6112 days ago 851 posts - 1074 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English*, German, French | Message 12 of 41 15 March 2011 at 7:11am | IP Logged | |||||
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I doubt he does it to impress you.
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| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5177 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 13 of 41 15 March 2011 at 3:05pm | IP Logged | |||||
I'd be interested in hearing your theory on why people post Youtube videos of themselves speaking various languages. People don't usually post when they are ashamed of what they've achieved. Edited by Arekkusu on 15 March 2011 at 4:38pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Splog Diglot Senior Member Czech Republic anthonylauder.c Joined 5465 days ago 1062 posts - 3263 votes Speaks: English*, Czech Studies: Mandarin | Message 14 of 41 15 March 2011 at 4:27pm | IP Logged | |||||
In the case of Robert, I believe he said it was to connect with other like-minded people, and it seems he has been successful, since he has since been chatting with a certain well known polyglot. 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Torbyrne Super Polyglot Senior Member Macedonia SpeakingFluently.com Joined 5891 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 15 of 41 15 March 2011 at 6:47pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Splog is right, he says quite clearly that Robert wishes to make contact with other people interested in multiple languages. This is one of the reasons I had for doing a similar thing on the Internet. My own motivations were:
1. To encourage other people learning or wishing to learn multiple foreign languages (as I wrote in the role models thread). 2. To get in contact with other polyglots in a bid to start polyglot-skyping and share experiences. 3. To provide a demonstration of me saying something in a range of languages I speak at different levels. Why? Throughout my life people have asked me to do this in person. It therefore seemed logical that this sort of video would appeal to people wishing to see something that relatively few people in the world do (that is to say, learn multiple languages). Doing this for simple praise or to show off would be fairly pointless and shallow. It is, of course, nice to receive the many lovely comments people take their time to send me. I feel truly flattered by those. There are also a fair amount of negative criticisms too. Many negative comments are impossible to address. Besides, pleasing everyone is neither a realistic goal nor is it a productive use of one’s time and energy. Some comments require a thick skin and others provide a nice bite of reality to keep one grounded. Perhaps there are individuals who create multilingual videos to get a short buzz out of the attention from unknown people over the Internet. Personally I cannot relate to that and I am not inclined to comment on such things as it is irrelevant to me. My own contentment about what I am doing with languages is the most gratifying. Having conversations with speakers of various tongues in their own language is exhilarating for me. There is the thrill of the chase in attaining fluency, using a language with native speakers and expressing thoughts and ideas in that language. That is the reason why point 2 on my list is the main personal buzz and motivation for me too. 10 persons have 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 16 of 41 15 March 2011 at 11:22pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I was interested in the clip where Robert is interpreting into English from German. I thought that interpreters almost always translated into their native tongue. Sometimes you see pictures of heads of states with a single interpreter, but in situations where the issue is simultaneous interpretation, I understood that generally there are at least two: a native speaker for each language.
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