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Mooby
Senior Member
Scotland
Joined 6063 days ago

707 posts - 1220 votes 
Speaks: English*
Studies: Polish

 
 Message 1 of 42
21 February 2012 at 9:18am | IP Logged 
This guy is 21 and speaks 11 languages.
I'm not sure to what level, but he sounds pretty good to me.
Meet Alex.....
What do you think?
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Liface
Triglot
Senior Member
United States
youtube.com/user/Lif
Joined 5816 days ago

150 posts - 237 votes 
Speaks: English*, German, Spanish
Studies: Dutch, French

 
 Message 2 of 42
21 February 2012 at 9:49am | IP Logged 
I always am a bit dubious clicking on language-learning related content from major news
sources because it's always so exaggerated, but this guy is really impressive. Of
the languages I can judge in (Spanish, French, German, Dutch), I can say that his accent
is quite good in each. He's really lucky to have discovered a passion so young, it seems
to have really helped his accent formation.

I'd love to see a more extemporaneous example of his skills as well. Does anyone know if
he has a website or is active on any language learning forums?
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Serpent
Octoglot
Senior Member
Russian Federation
serpent-849.livejour
Joined 6555 days ago

9753 posts - 15779 votes 
4 sounds
Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish

 
 Message 3 of 42
21 February 2012 at 12:39pm | IP Logged 
Impressive.
I wouldn't say his accent is good in Russian, though the overall skills are fine.
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Alexander86
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Senior Member
United Kingdom
alanguagediary.blogs
Joined 4939 days ago

224 posts - 323 votes 
Speaks: English*, Spanish, German, Catalan
Studies: Swedish

 
 Message 4 of 42
21 February 2012 at 5:41pm | IP Logged 
His Spanish and Catalan skills are good (although we'd need to here properly flowing speech to confirm), but even
though the accent is 'right' it doesn't seem to flow properly? I guess this is more due to do with how short the video
is and the format etc. Hmm... We need to get torbyrne to interview him!
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jimbo
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Senior Member
Canada
Joined 6252 days ago

469 posts - 642 votes 
Speaks: English*, Mandarin, Korean, French
Studies: Japanese, Latin

 
 Message 5 of 42
21 February 2012 at 5:59pm | IP Logged 
Mooby wrote:
This guy is 21 and speaks 11 languages.


Once again I'm reminded of why I should learn to juggle or something if I want to make a living. So many overachievers out there.
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Arekkusu
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Senior Member
Canada
bit.ly/qc_10_lec
Joined 5339 days ago

3971 posts - 7747 votes 
Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto
Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian

 
 Message 6 of 42
21 February 2012 at 6:04pm | IP Logged 
He's excellent, but he's obviously reciting a text he's learned by heart.

In French, he kind of misses "embrouiller".
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mick33
Senior Member
United States
Joined 5882 days ago

1335 posts - 1632 votes 
Speaks: English*
Studies: Finnish
Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish

 
 Message 8 of 42
22 February 2012 at 12:03am | IP Logged 
I can't comment on most of his languages, so I won't, but I am happy to see a video of another English speaker who is learning Afrikaans and I think he speaks it well.


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