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| Wulfgar Senior Member United States Joined 4461 days ago 404 posts - 791 votes  Speaks: English* | Message 1 of 22 25 April 2012 at 7:41am | IP Logged | ||
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Recently I watched a You Tube video that sort of ranked the most famous You Tube polyglots:
Who's the best You Tube Polyglot byChristophe Clugston and as an aside, here is a video that makes fun of some of said polyglots Youtube polyglots (Moses McCormick, Steve Kaufmann, Benny Anyway, to get back on topic, I wasn’t in complete agreement with the first video. Then I thought – wouldn’t it be fun for HTLAL to select the best You Tube polyglot? Maybe I’m wrong, but I can’t think of a better judge. It will probably be controversial, but this is how I’m defining a You Tube polyglot. Regardless of how well they give lectures in English, display writing techniques, etc, I want to judge them by their demonstrated ability to speak in at least 5 languages. I realize that some of the best will be left out because of this. But if they don’t show us, we can’t judge them. Unfortunately, our polls are limited to 5 choices. So this thread is going to be used to nominate the top 5, and then I’ll create a poll. To nominate a candidate, please post their name plus a link to one or more videos that show the candidate speaking at least 5 different languages for at least 30 seconds each. Feel free to add explanations as to why you think your candidate is the best, etc. Members please vote for anyone you consider to be in the top 5. Unless something strange happens, I’ll take the top 5 vote counts 10 days from today, May 5, and create the new poll. You can nominate more than one person, but please don’t put more than one in a post, and please don’t repeat someone else’s nomination, because that would confuse the voting. Edited by Wulfgar on 25 April 2012 at 8:41am 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Wulfgar Senior Member United States Joined 4461 days ago 404 posts - 791 votes Speaks: English* | Message 2 of 22 25 April 2012 at 8:03am | IP Logged | ||
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I nominate Luca Lampariello.
Spanish French Mandarin English Russian Italian German Swedish Dutch His work speaks for itself. Edited by Wulfgar on 03 May 2012 at 3:54am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| JosefWigren Bilingual Hexaglot Newbie Sweden josefwigren.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4413 days ago 9 posts - 35 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English*, Spanish, Japanese, Hindi, Vietnamese Studies: Russian | Message 3 of 22 25 April 2012 at 11:03am | IP Logged | ||
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I nominate Luca Lampariello. He frequently makes interesting content, which really makes
it worthwhile to subscribe to his channel. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| m32amir Heptaglot Groupie Canada youtube.com/user/m32Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5440 days ago 53 posts - 184 votes Speaks: Kazakh, Russian*, English, French, Spanish, German, Italian Studies: Turkish, Mandarin | Message 4 of 22 25 April 2012 at 12:24pm | IP Logged | ||
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Luca because he's not only a polgylot but also delivers very original and valuable content and insight on language learning!
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| smallwhite Pentaglot Senior Member Australia Joined 5098 days ago 537 posts - 1045 votes Speaks: Cantonese*, English, Mandarin, French, Spanish | Message 5 of 22 25 April 2012 at 12:55pm | IP Logged | ||
Would it be fun for the nominees as well? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| JujuLeCaribou Diglot Newbie Thailand myonlinefrencht Joined 4493 days ago 28 posts - 44 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Portuguese, Thai, German, Dutch | Message 6 of 22 25 April 2012 at 1:04pm | IP Logged | ||
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I vote for Luca !
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| Splog Diglot Senior Member Czech Republic anthonylauder.c Joined 5459 days ago 1062 posts - 3263 votes Speaks: English*, Czech Studies: Mandarin | Message 7 of 22 25 April 2012 at 1:41pm | IP Logged | ||
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Although this kind of thing can be fun, I don't like ranking polyglots for a few reasons:
1: We are going on very little evidence of people's abilities (just a few minutes over a few videos) 2: Few of us have the ability to evaluate anybody else (I have no idea how good Moses's Hmong is, since I have never learned a single word of the language). 3: Language learning isn't a competition, and knowing you are being "ranked" puts pressure on people that doesn't help them 4: Although the winner may end up feeling good, the "losers" may end of feeling bad, and I would rather encourage other language learners, no matter what their level Overall. though, I would love more people to make videos. There are loads of language learners out there, and we only ever hear from a few of them. Knowing that they could be put though the polyglot equivalent of "The Hunger Games" isn't going to encourage more people to make videos. Edited by Splog on 25 April 2012 at 2:26pm 16 persons have voted this message useful | |||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6493 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 8 of 22 25 April 2012 at 1:56pm | IP Logged | ||
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I agree with Splog.
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