Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6452 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese
| Message 41 of 108 21 March 2008 at 7:05am | IP Logged |
bluecollar wrote:
I agree with you about her accent.It is something you can only acquire when you are young. |
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No, it's not; it's just easier. There are people who acquire native accents as adults; I've met some.
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moisa Triglot Newbie Brazil Joined 6688 days ago 23 posts - 23 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishC1, Spanish Studies: French
| Message 42 of 108 15 June 2008 at 6:23am | IP Logged |
Ok. What I can say is that her Portuguese is very good. Her accent, except in few words, is native brazilian (she speaks like a brazilian kid). She didn´t speak for a long time in the video, but she understood everything clearly and answered almost without stop to think. I also found her Spanish very good as well. I guess she has a very ´good ear´, like we say in brazil, she picks the sounds quite well.
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bluecollar Groupie United States Joined 6167 days ago 43 posts - 48 votes
| Message 43 of 108 15 June 2008 at 8:46am | IP Logged |
We have heard opinions from native speakers of Cantonese,French,Portuguese.Please come on board.It is interesting to know if Wendy Vo really speaks 11 languages.There are a lot of hoaxers out there.I hope she is the real thing and if she is,she can become an inspiring model for kids and for us adults too.
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Ssizz Diglot Groupie United States Joined 6101 days ago 66 posts - 72 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Mandarin, Korean
| Message 44 of 108 15 June 2008 at 10:53am | IP Logged |
I think it's safe to say that Wendy Vo is competent in all the languages in question. I'm sure if she was not some
person would have taken delight in exposing her by now.
As for the people commenting on her "larkspur" slip up, that's a little harsh. I'm in my twenties and that's my first
time even seeing that word as a native English speaker. It's a good bet a good number of Anglophones would have
mispronounced it also, so it's not a big deal.
Wendy Vo is impressive; the fact that she's 8 just adds to it. She's light years ahead of most people just speaking
those languages with the skill she currently has. Hopefully I'll be on a similar level as her someday, I'm pushing 11
languages myself.
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bluecollar Groupie United States Joined 6167 days ago 43 posts - 48 votes
| Message 45 of 108 15 June 2008 at 11:06am | IP Logged |
Are you seriously studying 11 languages?I have been working on only 6 and I am nowhere near Wendy Vo's level and she is only 8.
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Ssizz Diglot Groupie United States Joined 6101 days ago 66 posts - 72 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Mandarin, Korean
| Message 46 of 108 15 June 2008 at 2:49pm | IP Logged |
Not quite eleven just yet, but I'm working on it. Currently I'm studying all 7 listed under my profile. I'm waiting
until my Mandarin hits a steady intermediate level before I dive deeper into Vietnamese though, those tones are
tough!
The reason I say I'm pushing 11 is because I have a nasty habit of looking over the basics of a language based
purely on curiosity and eventually wind up studying it full time. Hopefully by the time I've reached that number I'll
have forced myself to stop >_<
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bluecollar Groupie United States Joined 6167 days ago 43 posts - 48 votes
| Message 47 of 108 24 June 2008 at 2:16pm | IP Logged |
I wonder how many people in this forum can REALLY speak more than 10 languages,at least at Wendy Vo's level.
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leosmith Senior Member United States Joined 6563 days ago 2365 posts - 3804 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Tagalog
| Message 48 of 108 25 June 2008 at 1:44am | IP Logged |
bluecollar wrote:
I wonder how many people in this forum can REALLY speak more than 10 languages,at least at
Wendy Vo's level. |
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What's the point of your post?
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