Thoughts on Benny the Irish Polyglot, and Laoshu? And other well-known polyglots?Here they are if you dont know:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY1b513hItohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RfxAjtUx8o<tinyboard flag al

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Anonymous 11/05/14 (Wed) 05:43:06 No.75

Thoughts on Benny the Irish Polyglot, and Laoshu? And other well-known polyglots?

Here they are if you dont know:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY1b513hIto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RfxAjtUx8o

Anonymous 11/05/14 (Wed) 09:36:10 No.81

>>75
I don't know if there is much to think about them at all. I'm pretty sure that anyone who dedicates a big deal of it's time to study anything can get good at it in a relatively short time, including different languages.

Anonymous 11/06/14 (Thu) 18:22:32 No.115

>>75
Watching Laoshu50500 is fucking incredible, but after a while you realise that what he's doing isn't that difficult if you dedicate enough time to it. He can have a basic conversation in about 50 languages, is pretty conversant in about 20 languages and is fluent in Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, Taiwanese, Korean and Somali.
He is a stay at home dad, though. So it's pretty easy for him to study.

Anonymous 11/06/14 (Thu) 20:30:35 No.119

>>115
What blows my mind about Laoshu50500 is his confidence to just walk up to random people and start talking. comes across so awkward/rude but then most people humor him and some end up really happy

Anonymous 11/07/14 (Fri) 20:21:30 No.142

damn, just watching this laoshu guy is amazing
it's motivating for me to do my best on my language of choice even though I don't learn any of those languages he speaks in his videos

Anonymous 11/08/14 (Sat) 00:13:36 No.150

He has a really heavy Russian accent and he made a few errors while speaking in the video I watched.

But I guess it's expected, when you are keeping up with so many other languages. I'm trying to learn a third and it's pretty taxing for me already. But I'm trying my best to excel at what I do know and train myself to pronounce things as close to native level as possible.

Accents are cute though… I just don't see myself pulling off cuteness well.

Anonymous 11/08/14 (Sat) 20:38:22 No.157

I like Steve Kaufmann

Anonymous 11/08/14 (Sat) 20:46:30 No.158

>>150
>and train myself to pronounce things as close to native level as possible

I had the fortune of growing up around people who speak my target language, so my accent sounds native, I never had to practice it…The downside of this is that I sound totally normal at first so people talk to me like I'm a native speaker and then I start to fuck up grammatically and not know important words and people get very confused, and in the case of when I am working, customers get angry…haha

Anonymous 02/24/15 (Tue) 00:41:41 No.593

I like laoshu a lot. He is very funny and inspiring.

But I have to admit that a lot of his videos are the same but I also watch them for the reactions. He only has real conversations in Chinese, Somali and a few other languages.

Most of the time it's just:
-my nickname is laoshu
-I speak 50 languages
-I learn at home
-my wife is Taiwanese
-I have twins
-I'm a language teacher
-I have been to Taiwan
etc.

Anonymous 02/26/15 (Thu) 11:10:16 No.594

>>157
Ugh.

Lashou is good but I took prefer Luca Lampirello(sp.).

>>593
Totally agree.

Anonymous 02/27/15 (Fri) 02:17:44 No.595

>>594

Yeah and one other cool thing about Laoshu is that he actually learns and follows through with languages that are pretty hard for Indo-European speakers.

AFAIK, Luca is still struggling with Chinese. Benny and Richard both gave up learning Japanese 'for health reasons'.

Anonymous 02/28/15 (Sat) 10:52:12 No.601

>>595
>for health reasons
Hahaha. They got sick of it?

Anonymous 02/28/15 (Sat) 12:38:25 No.604

>>595
>Benny and Richard both gave up learning Japanese 'for health reasons'.

A bad case of yellow fever, perhaps?

Anonymous 02/28/15 (Sat) 12:59:05 No.607

>>601
>>604

I can't remember the details but both started learning Japanese during their respective challenges and coincidently they both made up some bullshit about getting sick and unable to learn in order to save face. Pretty funny if you ask me.

Anonymous 02/28/15 (Sat) 15:07:14 No.612

>>150
>and train myself to pronounce things as close to native level as possible.

Personally I like it when people retain their original accents while speaking a foreign language.

>>607
What was the challenge? Something like "learn Japanese in a week"?

Anonymous 02/28/15 (Sat) 15:20:09 No.614

>>612
>Personally I like it when people retain their original accents while speaking a foreign language.

I agree, actually I've been told several times that my Argentinian accent sounds cute when speaking English.

Anonymous 02/28/15 (Sat) 17:21:12 No.616

>>612
More like three months.

Anonymous 03/10/15 (Tue) 17:14:28 No.713

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>>115
>Laoshu50500

Anonymous 03/11/15 (Wed) 13:00:42 No.716

>>593
Totally agree with this.