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Becoming a Notable Polyglot: My Journey..

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translator2
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07 May 2011 at 1:31am | IP Logged 
Found on the net:

Becoming a Notable Polyglot: My Journey in Developing Greater Foreign Language Proficiency by Eddie Donovan
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kmart
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07 May 2011 at 3:29am | IP Logged 
Hmm, no mention of Professor Arguelles in his list of notable polyglots - can't be much of an expert if he doesn't know about the prof !
;-)
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Arekkusu
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11 May 2011 at 1:49am | IP Logged 
Ok... So he can understand a whole bunch of dialects...
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leosmith
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14 May 2011 at 3:13am | IP Logged 
translator2 wrote:
Personally, I don't find walking back and forth talking to yourself very helpful or spending
hours writing like a monk very useful.

This is a pretty petty comment about someone who has contributed so much time and effort in this forum and
elsewhere to helping people learn languages. He has made many very useful posts; reducing his contributions to
shadowing and scriptorium doesn't do him justice.


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