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Peruvian teenager speaking 12 languages
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Vlad Trilingual Super Polyglot Senior Member Czechoslovakia foreverastudent.com Joined 6396 days ago 443 posts - 576 votes 2 sounds Speaks: Czech, Slovak, Hungarian*, Mandarin, English^C2, German^C2, Italian^C1, Spanish, Russian, Polish, Serbian, French Studies: Persian, Taiwanese, Romanian, Portuguese	Message 1 of 5 22 November 2007 at 1:24pm \| IP Logged
	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYhsmgEv-yo&feature=related what do you guys think? I think they exaggerated a little, but the kid did speak the languages. how was his Romanian, Sweedish and Gallician interview? My observations: His Italian.. I don't know. it was too short to tell, he was mostly listening, but you deffinitely do not answer 'Grazie' to 'In bocca al lupo' :-) In French he didn't know the word 'mec' which is quite frequent I think. In the small German part he missed the article in "r Akzent", his German was good to get around in Germany, but nowhere close to 4 and a hlaf stars out of 5 as the man said. In the Portuguese part he seemed to search for words and repeat the same sentences. My conclusion is, that he could get around in these languages, but he's not a polyglot based on the stantards of this forum :-) There was a request made by someone to load up our sound clips in different languages to prove that we really speak what we claim. I was thinking of doing this a long time ago, but I would need some time. I would like to do something serious..something like maybe a 5-10 minute discussion with a native speaker so that you guys could well citisice me:-) I mean.. reading something allready prepared, or a tongue twister is fine, but not something I would judge language knowlege by. And also.. once I put up something out here, I would like to sound really good! :-) so when I'm old I'll have things to listen to..I will have to work a bit at that as I might have sounded German-native 4 years ago for instance, but now I have an accent and as I said, I would like to at least try my best, knowing I did my best so you guys could criticise. 1 person has voted this message useful
apparition Octoglot Senior Member United States Joined 6462 days ago 600 posts - 667 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Written), French, Arabic (Iraqi), Portuguese, German, Italian, Spanish Studies: Pashto	Message 2 of 5 22 November 2007 at 1:41pm \| IP Logged
	Yeah, that's Jorge Fernandez Gates... Thread 1 Thread 2 1 person has voted this message useful
Vlad Trilingual Super Polyglot Senior Member Czechoslovakia foreverastudent.com Joined 6396 days ago 443 posts - 576 votes 2 sounds Speaks: Czech, Slovak, Hungarian*, Mandarin, English^C2, German^C2, Italian^C1, Spanish, Russian, Polish, Serbian, French Studies: Persian, Taiwanese, Romanian, Portuguese	Message 3 of 5 22 November 2007 at 1:51pm \| IP Logged
	Sorry.. I should've checked it. Could a moderator kindly move my post to the end of one of those threads? thank you. 1 person has voted this message useful
Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6515 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 4 of 5 22 November 2007 at 3:15pm \| IP Logged
	The older thread is here 1 person has voted this message useful
Luismiguelagain Bilingual Super Polyglot Newbie PeruRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6000 days ago 10 posts - 10 votes Speaks: Italian, Spanish, French^C1, English^C1, 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 5 of 5 16 December 2007 at 8:13pm \| IP Logged
	Well, Jorge is actually my friend. I'm peruvian and I've spoken with him several times. I'm a native speaker in italian and Spanish and I obviously agree with you in what concerns the "In bocca al lupo" mistake. Nevertheless, I think that what matters the most is the fact of communicating something to someone. He probably made mistakes, but we can not say they didn't understand him. I agree with you, when you say that they probably exagerated; however, a matter of nerves could have influenced him too. He has that kind of talent for languages that we all have. And, what I can say, is that I really consider him a polyglot. 1 person has voted this message useful

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Vlad Trilingual Super Polyglot Senior Member Czechoslovakia foreverastudent.com Joined 6396 days ago 443 posts - 576 votes 2 sounds Speaks: Czech, Slovak, Hungarian*, Mandarin, English^C2, German^C2, Italian^C1, Spanish, Russian, Polish, Serbian, French Studies: Persian, Taiwanese, Romanian, Portuguese	Message 1 of 5 22 November 2007 at 1:24pm \| IP Logged
	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYhsmgEv-yo&feature=related what do you guys think? I think they exaggerated a little, but the kid did speak the languages. how was his Romanian, Sweedish and Gallician interview? My observations: His Italian.. I don't know. it was too short to tell, he was mostly listening, but you deffinitely do not answer 'Grazie' to 'In bocca al lupo' :-) In French he didn't know the word 'mec' which is quite frequent I think. In the small German part he missed the article in "r Akzent", his German was good to get around in Germany, but nowhere close to 4 and a hlaf stars out of 5 as the man said. In the Portuguese part he seemed to search for words and repeat the same sentences. My conclusion is, that he could get around in these languages, but he's not a polyglot based on the stantards of this forum :-) There was a request made by someone to load up our sound clips in different languages to prove that we really speak what we claim. I was thinking of doing this a long time ago, but I would need some time. I would like to do something serious..something like maybe a 5-10 minute discussion with a native speaker so that you guys could well citisice me:-) I mean.. reading something allready prepared, or a tongue twister is fine, but not something I would judge language knowlege by. And also.. once I put up something out here, I would like to sound really good! :-) so when I'm old I'll have things to listen to..I will have to work a bit at that as I might have sounded German-native 4 years ago for instance, but now I have an accent and as I said, I would like to at least try my best, knowing I did my best so you guys could criticise. 1 person has voted this message useful
apparition Octoglot Senior Member United States Joined 6462 days ago 600 posts - 667 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Written), French, Arabic (Iraqi), Portuguese, German, Italian, Spanish Studies: Pashto	Message 2 of 5 22 November 2007 at 1:41pm \| IP Logged
	Yeah, that's Jorge Fernandez Gates... Thread 1 Thread 2 1 person has voted this message useful
Vlad Trilingual Super Polyglot Senior Member Czechoslovakia foreverastudent.com Joined 6396 days ago 443 posts - 576 votes 2 sounds Speaks: Czech, Slovak, Hungarian*, Mandarin, English^C2, German^C2, Italian^C1, Spanish, Russian, Polish, Serbian, French Studies: Persian, Taiwanese, Romanian, Portuguese	Message 3 of 5 22 November 2007 at 1:51pm \| IP Logged
	Sorry.. I should've checked it. Could a moderator kindly move my post to the end of one of those threads? thank you. 1 person has voted this message useful
Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6515 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 4 of 5 22 November 2007 at 3:15pm \| IP Logged
	The older thread is here 1 person has voted this message useful
Luismiguelagain Bilingual Super Polyglot Newbie PeruRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6000 days ago 10 posts - 10 votes Speaks: Italian, Spanish, French^C1, English^C1, 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 5 of 5 16 December 2007 at 8:13pm \| IP Logged
	Well, Jorge is actually my friend. I'm peruvian and I've spoken with him several times. I'm a native speaker in italian and Spanish and I obviously agree with you in what concerns the "In bocca al lupo" mistake. Nevertheless, I think that what matters the most is the fact of communicating something to someone. He probably made mistakes, but we can not say they didn't understand him. I agree with you, when you say that they probably exagerated; however, a matter of nerves could have influenced him too. He has that kind of talent for languages that we all have. And, what I can say, is that I really consider him a polyglot. 1 person has voted this message useful