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| Matthew12 Newbie United States Joined 4106 days ago 13 posts - 20 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, German | Message 1 of 10 14 May 2013 at 12:34am | IP Logged | ||
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Wouldn't it be cool if Tim Doner did a TedTalk or something related to that? I want to
know how use utilizes his time so well with school and other priorities. Everyone add your thoughts! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Emily96 Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4209 days ago 270 posts - 342 votes  Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish, Finnish, Latin | Message 2 of 10 16 May 2013 at 4:26am | IP Logged | ||
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I was wondering how he manages his time too! Being a student myself, i'm particularly interested. A tedtalk would
be great. I wonder what he would think of that. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Matthew12 Newbie United States Joined 4106 days ago 13 posts - 20 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, German | Message 3 of 10 16 May 2013 at 11:18pm | IP Logged | ||
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And I understand what he does in the summer, but during school I just don't have that
much time to dedicate learning a language and progress as far as he has. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Emily96 Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4209 days ago 270 posts - 342 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish, Finnish, Latin | Message 4 of 10 17 May 2013 at 12:45am | IP Logged | ||
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And even if you have the time, you're already burnt out from everything else and you just want to relax instead of
studying more. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Waylon Newbie United States Joined 4065 days ago 10 posts - 14 votes Studies: French, Georgian, Persian | Message 5 of 10 18 May 2013 at 1:48am | IP Logged | ||
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I am actually curious about that as well. However, over this passed
month I had the realization that I studied on average 15 hours a day (this wasn't for languages, though), so that really opened my mind to how much time we waste. I am thinking that he must have that as his main hobby because realistically, he couldn't devote himself to much else if he wants to maintain all of those languages. I could understand his achievements if he focuses more on the spoken language because speaking is easier than writing (at least for me), but if he's doing all four parts of a language, I'd be astounded and even more curious. Not saying that his achievements now aren't amazing, but that would be icing to the cake. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| schoenewaelder Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5341 days ago 759 posts - 1197 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch | Message 6 of 10 16 August 2013 at 5:13pm | IP Logged | ||
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Just noticed this today, via a link on Reddit
Tim Doner - Economist interview He's quite a pleasant, relaxed, natural interviewee, but to be honest, I probably wouldn't have posted it, except it does address the irritation many expressed about exagerating the number of languages he speaks. I think he says 4 or 5, and some others he's learning seriously, or dabbling in. The interviewer is also quite sensible, but Tim probably beat it into him after all the grief he got last time. If you want to skip the boring stuff, the polyglot monkey action starts at about 7'30", but it's too short to be at all revealing. BTW anyone think he looks a bit like Tim from The Office (UK)? If his hair was a bit flatter? Edited by schoenewaelder on 17 August 2013 at 3:44am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Cabaire Senior Member Germany Joined 5380 days ago 725 posts - 1352 votes | Message 7 of 10 17 August 2013 at 12:42am | IP Logged | ||
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I was laughing when I thought he said "je kiffe à Paris", because "kiffen" is "to toke" in German. In 25 years of learning French I have never heard before of Verlan!
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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4488 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 8 of 10 17 August 2013 at 10:48am | IP Logged | ||
I think he takes his school languages, particularly French, quite seriously. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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