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tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4688 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 9 of 18 16 June 2013 at 10:24am | IP Logged |
He doesn't speak all languages like it's his mother tongue, as that Italian article
claims, but he doesn't need to. 30 languages!!! (although; is he counting
Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian separately?) In any case, a very impressive polyglot with a very
wide and varied arsenal of languages. Something to aspire to!
Edited by tarvos on 16 June 2013 at 10:25am
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| m32amir Heptaglot Groupie Canada youtube.com/user/m32Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5631 days ago 53 posts - 184 votes Speaks: Kazakh, Russian*, English, French, Spanish, German, Italian Studies: Turkish, Mandarin
| Message 10 of 18 26 June 2013 at 6:10pm | IP Logged |
Hi all :-)
I wanted to let everyone know that Luca has posted a new interview with Emanuelle in
Italian (with English and Polish subtitles)
Interview in Italian
Очень интересное интевью. Я сам его посмотрел минимум 3 раза. Всегда приятно следить за
интересным разговором.
Amir
Edited by m32amir on 26 June 2013 at 6:33pm
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| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4809 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh
| Message 11 of 18 27 June 2013 at 9:13pm | IP Logged |
drfeelgood17 wrote:
In that article from Il Giorno, Marini made an obvious but
important point regarding his language learning goals: 'Non cerco la perfezione, fare
errori è una parte essenziale nell'imparare qualsiasi lingua.' (I don't aim for
perfection, making mistakes is part and parcel of learning any language).
Too many language learners get fixated on unrealistic goals (achieving native-speaker
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Probably true, but then when polyglots post videos on Youtube with mistakes on them they
sometimes get criticised on here. (I'm not referring to this particular polyglot).
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| tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4028 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch
| Message 12 of 18 02 August 2014 at 1:57pm | IP Logged |
Emanuele is a real inspiration.
The only problem is: his way to learn languages is undoable for the most of the people. He seems to have
extraordinary abilities to remember what he reads. Also, he seems to dedicate all his life around languages.
I respect his aversion for English nonetheless.
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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4688 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 13 of 18 02 August 2014 at 5:12pm | IP Logged |
I don't think you can respect an aversion, but it is good that he does not let English
dictate his choice of languages.
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| albysky Triglot Senior Member Italy lang-8.com/1108796Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4369 days ago 287 posts - 393 votes Speaks: Italian*, English, German
| Message 14 of 18 03 August 2014 at 1:46pm | IP Logged |
tristano wrote:
Emanuele is a real inspiration.
The only problem is: his way to learn languages is undoable for the most of the people. He seems to have
extraordinary abilities to remember what he reads. Also, he seems to dedicate all his life around
languages.
I respect his aversion for English nonetheless.
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I AGREE , he must have an amazing and "brutal" memorization power .
Edited by albysky on 03 August 2014 at 2:11pm
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| tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4028 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch
| Message 15 of 18 16 August 2014 at 2:05am | IP Logged |
tarvos wrote:
I don't think you can respect an aversion, but it is good that he does not let English
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Well, if English was not that widespread because of historical and political reasons, it would probably be considered
just as a weird language half Germanic, half romance, highly irregular and with a nearly random spelling.
And probably would have been more attractive for Emanuele Marini :)
In Italy the major part of language students at the university choose to do English, French and Spanish. German is
generally considered too difficult and every other language nearly impossible. And despite everyone studies English
the average level in English is incredibly low, with most of them struggling to have conversations abroad.
Emanuele Marini follows his interests and reach great achievements. I'm quite sure that if he would learn English to
extremely high levels it would be easy for him. But that would waste the time he could learn some other language
that catches his attention.
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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4688 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 16 of 18 17 August 2014 at 10:19pm | IP Logged |
I don't think it would be - he doesn't find it that fun.
If history wasn't history I don't think we would have had the same English language, so I
find that hard to believe - English is so widespread because of history and changing that
would certainly influence the way English has developed over time.
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