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Iversen
Super Polyglot
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Denmark
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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
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 Message 17 of 31
06 December 2007 at 10:11am | IP Logged 
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lloydkirk
Diglot
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Speaks: English*, French
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 Message 18 of 31
08 December 2007 at 12:35pm | IP Logged 
The videos are like 99% Spanish. Bravo, at least we know he can speak that. What I was able to hear of his French, I was not impressed. His accent and pronunciation was quite poor.
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Luismiguelagain
Bilingual Super Polyglot
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PeruRegistered users can see my Skype Name
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Speaks: Italian*, Spanish*, FrenchC1, EnglishC1, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan, Latin, German, Portuguese, Mandarin, Ancient Greek, Quechua, Aymara, Icelandic, Modern Hebrew, Galician, Dutch
Studies: Swedish, Czech, Sanskrit, Frisian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Biblical Hebrew

 
 Message 19 of 31
16 December 2007 at 8:31pm | IP Logged 
Well, I'm peruvian and I can actually say that he's my friend. We've both spoken several times and he's proved to be a polyglot. Even if there are always some mistakes, I think that the fact that matters the most is communication. If he can produce a message and transmit it, that's enough. I noticed a mistake when he answered "Grazie" to the well-known italian expression "in bocca al lupo"; however, I don't think that could have made communication impossible, certainly the italian woman understood. Criticising is very easy, and I can certify he's a polyglot.
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Volte
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Switzerland
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 Message 20 of 31
16 December 2007 at 8:55pm | IP Logged 
Luismiguelagain wrote:
Well, I'm peruvian and I can actually say that he's my friend. We've both spoken several times and he's proved to be a polyglot. Even if there are always some mistakes, I think that the fact that matters the most is communication. If he can produce a message and transmit it, that's enough. I noticed a mistake when he answered "Grazie" to the well-known italian expression "in bocca al lupo"; however, I don't think that could have made communication impossible, certainly the italian woman understood. Criticising is very easy, and I can certify he's a polyglot.


Also, while 'grazie' isn't the canonical correct response, I've heard native speakers here use it occasionally. They then tend to look either look slightly embarrassed or correct themselves.

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lloydkirk
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 Message 21 of 31
17 December 2007 at 11:19am | IP Logged 
Luismiguelagain wrote:
Well, I'm peruvian and I can actually say that he's my friend. We've both spoken several times and he's proved to be a polyglot. Even if there are always some mistakes, I think that the fact that matters the most is communication. If he can produce a message and transmit it, that's enough. I noticed a mistake when he answered "Grazie" to the well-known italian expression "in bocca al lupo"; however, I don't think that could have made communication impossible, certainly the italian woman understood. Criticising is very easy, and I can certify he's a polyglot.


He claims to speak French and apparently you do too. Did you speak to him in French? In which case, you would have noticed how bad his pronunciation is. It's not a matter of not being perfect, it's simply bad. It sounds like Frenish to me.
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Luismiguelagain
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Speaks: Italian*, Spanish*, FrenchC1, EnglishC1, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan, Latin, German, Portuguese, Mandarin, Ancient Greek, Quechua, Aymara, Icelandic, Modern Hebrew, Galician, Dutch
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 Message 22 of 31
17 December 2007 at 12:28pm | IP Logged 
lloydkirk wrote:
He claims to speak French and apparently you do too. Did you speak to him in French? In which case, you would have noticed how bad his pronunciation is. It's not a matter of not being perfect, it's simply bad. It sounds like Frenish to me.


Well, yesterday I talked to him in french. We spoke in italian and afterwards in french. It's true that he has a very peruvian accent; nevertheless, what matters the most as I said, is communication. I understood him very well. There were some mistakes in his speech but there's also another thing to be analysed. When that interview was done, he was very nervous; I think it was his first time on tv. I noticed some -r at the end of the verbs like "parler", "aller", etc. Besides this, what he has done is noteworthy, he almost learnt all those languages by himself, and in this country....that is really weird. It's true that he is not perfect; however, he does speak 12 languages.
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Walshy
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Australia
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 Message 23 of 31
22 December 2007 at 9:34am | IP Logged 
Luismiguelagain wrote:
It's true that he is not perfect; however, he does speak 12 languages.

That is exactly what has irked a lot of people here, since most people on this forum consider "speaking" a language to be a very advanced level of language ability. I think a better term would be "conversational".

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