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 Tetraglot 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 Tetraglot 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:
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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 Hexaglot 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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