Journeyer Triglot Senior Member United States tristan85.blogspot.c Joined 6680 days ago 946 posts - 1110 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German Studies: Sign Language
| Message 9 of 13 05 October 2007 at 10:49pm | IP Logged |
Wow, well I could certainly empathize with him getting nervous before using some of his languages. He definitely had one of *the* most important tools of language-learning: self-confidence. When I was his age learning German and still made mistakes like "...,dass ich habe etwas" instead of "...,dass ich etwas habe", I would have been very harsh on myself, and yet he rolls with it.
I also think he nailed my sentiments exactly when he said that you learn a language because you emotionally want to, not because it's obligatory. The story of my language-learning life.
This video though was a real workout for my Spanish. I found Peruvian very difficult to understand.
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Walshy Triglot Senior Member Australia Joined 6754 days ago 335 posts - 365 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German
| Message 10 of 13 06 October 2007 at 8:19am | IP Logged |
Did he just say "Glaubst du dass ich habe ein lateinisch Akzent"? He's not fluent yet, but he will be someday.
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Marc Frisch Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6477 days ago 1001 posts - 1169 votes Speaks: German*, French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Persian, Tamil
| Message 11 of 13 06 October 2007 at 9:15am | IP Logged |
Walshy wrote:
Did he just say "Glaubst du dass ich habe ein lateinisch Akzent"? He's not fluent yet, but he will be someday. |
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Yes, I thought that was very funny. I understood it without problems, but I think a monolingual German would probably be confused.
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Journeyer Triglot Senior Member United States tristan85.blogspot.c Joined 6680 days ago 946 posts - 1110 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German Studies: Sign Language
| Message 12 of 13 06 October 2007 at 9:49am | IP Logged |
Lateinisch...Is customary to refer to South American accents as Latin, I wonder?
Edited by Journeyer on 06 October 2007 at 10:09am
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Marc Frisch Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6477 days ago 1001 posts - 1169 votes Speaks: German*, French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Persian, Tamil
| Message 13 of 13 06 October 2007 at 11:21am | IP Logged |
Not in German.
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