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dEhiN wrote:your (plural you)
On a note related to my TAC, I recently did an online French test that Vijay showed me and I got a score of 46/70. That apparently translates to the B1 level. I did the same test for Spanish and Portuguese and my Portuguese is better than my Spanish!
vijayjohn wrote:dEhiN wrote:your (plural you)
Down 'ere we say "y'all's," podner!
Youngfun wrote:vijayjohn wrote:dEhiN wrote:your (plural you)
Down 'ere we say "y'all's," podner!
Your guys's.
vijayjohn wrote:Youngfun wrote:vijayjohn wrote:dEhiN wrote:your (plural you)
Down 'ere we say "y'all's," podner!
Your guys's.
That always sounded so weird to me, even though "y'all's" is also arguably weird for having two apostrophes!
Koko wrote:Is "wouldn't've" weird too? ^^
Dr. House wrote:I like certain YT polyglots, but some are pretty annoying. Richard Simcott, Luca Lampariello, Tim Doner, Emanuele Marini, Benny the Scam and all the HTLAL community just sucks. They make these elite cliques of people who speak more than 7 languages and especially Luca is keen to interview just anyone who "knows" these many languages. They also set up this PG conference as if they were speaking on behalf of all the language learners, polyglots and linguists of the world.
The ones I didn't mention are great actually.
I have not been very impressed with Moses's abilities in any of the languages I know. It may well be the case that he speaks excellent Mandarin, for example, or Japanese, or other languages I haven't studied -- I wouldn't know -- but as I recall his attempts in the languages I do know were riddled with errors, sometimes verging on incomprehensibility. I tend to be more impressed with people who speak other languages very well than those who can speak many languages poorly. In my own experience, I've been able to get to a similar level of communicative ability to what you often see in these polyglot Youtube videos after just a couple months (sometimes even less) of immersion, or dedicated study, but real skill takes much longer to develop.Dr. House wrote:Well, Moses claims to 50+ languages ...
eskandar wrote:I tend to be more impressed with people who speak other languages very well than those who can speak many languages poorly.
In my own experience, I've been able to get to a similar level of communicative ability to what you often see in these polyglot Youtube videos after just a couple months (sometimes even less) of immersion, or dedicated study, but real skill takes much longer to develop.
dEhiN wrote:eskandar wrote:I tend to be more impressed with people who speak other languages very well than those who can speak many languages poorly.
It sounds better (to my ears at least) to say "...who speak several [or: a few] languages very well than..."
Saim wrote:Ziad himself said he was prefect (direct quote: "I do keep being the greatest living polyglot"). He said his "skills" were a gift from god.
Dr. House wrote:Saim wrote:Ziad himself said he was prefect (direct quote: "I do keep being the greatest living polyglot"). He said his "skills" were a gift from god.
And what's wrong with that? Just because a chess player with ELO 2000 calls himself the greatest chess player in history, doesn't mean that he can't play chess at all, which is what many people are insinuating here. Supposed he could only hold a basic conversation in Lao, doesn't mean he couldn't speak 10-20 of his languages fluently.
vijayjohn wrote:dEhiN wrote:eskandar wrote:I tend to be more impressed with people who speak other languages very well than those who can speak many languages poorly.
It sounds better (to my ears at least) to say "...who speak several [or: a few] languages very well than..."
eskandar's a native speaker of English.
Dr. House wrote:Supposed he could only hold a basic conversation in Lao
Dr. House wrote:doesn't mean he couldn't speak 10-20 of his languages fluently.
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