|
 |
Who speaks TL better - Kerry or Gingrich? | ||
Share with:
| ||
 Language Learning Forum : Polyglots |  | |
| FuroraCeltica Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6646 days ago 1187 posts - 1427 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 17 of 39 28 February 2013 at 8:33pm | IP Logged | ||
|
Kevin Rudd, former Australian PM speaking Chinese
http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=AGsHneYbBAk John Hunstman, Republican speaking Chinese http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=ABYG5C_DDE0 Edited by FuroraCeltica on 28 February 2013 at 8:35pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6378 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 18 of 39 28 February 2013 at 11:10pm | IP Logged | ||
2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| lewevanhoop Newbie United States Joined 4794 days ago 13 posts - 20 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Afrikaans, Modern Hebrew | Message 19 of 39 28 February 2013 at 11:39pm | IP Logged | ||
|
I would say that Newt either studied Spanish from a book with no audio content and/or is
reading from cue cards. His pronunciation sounds like some people in my Spanish 101 class. It sounds like he is attempting to pronounce his vowels like English vowel at time and he word stress is very very bad. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6690 days ago 4250 posts - 5710 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 20 of 39 01 March 2013 at 12:45am | IP Logged | ||
|
While I also think that his Spanish leaves a lot to be desired, I've had classmates who spoke just as badly in English, Spanish and what not (and that's with tapes, CDs, movies etc.). Some people just never pay attention to pronunciation.
So, Gingrich might not have a convincing accent in his target language, but he's not alone. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Random review Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5564 days ago 781 posts - 1310 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin, Yiddish, German | Message 21 of 39 01 March 2013 at 12:51am | IP Logged | ||
|
Can't comment on Kerry's French, but Gingrich actually went up (slightly) in my
estimation from this. He does sound awful, but it does seem like he understands what he was saying and he even seemed quite sincere. It's not like he's hard to understand. This is quite hard for me to say as I find his views quite repugnant. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5115 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 22 of 39 01 March 2013 at 6:46am | IP Logged | ||
|
Well I can only agree with the majority here: Kerry's French was good- not absolutely perfect - but good. The
Spanish sequence was painful to listen to. If I had been his teacher I would have died of embarrassment. If I were to grade them on a scale from 1-10, I would have given Kerry an 8 and Gingrich a 1. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6363 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 23 of 39 01 March 2013 at 7:05am | IP Logged | ||
|
I haven't heard the Prof speak Spanish or French, but Gingrich's Spanish pronunciation is clearly better than Arguelles' Swedish pronunciation. Anyone have a clip of Arguelles speaking either of these two languages?
2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6690 days ago 4250 posts - 5710 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 24 of 39 01 March 2013 at 9:39am | IP Logged | ||
|
A few years ago, someone posted a link to a short radio interview in Spanish. It was a long clip - the interview with Arguelles started after say 35 minutes. Maybe someone remembers it?
Edit: I found it! http://www.kpfa.org/archive/id/22278 From the the original thread: "The Professor's interview in English starts around 20:17. The interview in Spanish starts at around 50:15." ---- That's high level Spanish to my ears. Definitely fluent, maybe not native sounding, but I can't hear a single trace of his native English. Edited by jeff_lindqvist on 01 March 2013 at 12:56pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
|  | 
Printable version
|
| Copyright 2024 FX Micheloud - All rights reserved No part of this website may be copied by any means without my written authorization. |
