LingQ Medley II Portuguese, Japanese, Russian, German

[guardiao302]

Qual lingue que vc gosta mais ?

[guardiao302]

Ola qual o link do site para aprender é pago?

[guardiao302]

OI vc poderia me ensinar ingles ? qual seu msn?

[Xantonium]

@guardiao302 Ele tem que gerenciar um instituto e um grande site, com milhares de usuários, acho meio egoísta de sua parte achar que pode te dar "aulas particulares" de inglês

[a6pukoc5]

woooow! his japanese is very very good! sounds clear! and natural ! :D

[marckami]

If you plan to add Polish to linq I can help with dialogues.

[lingosteve]

@marckami Hopefully that is not too far away.

[ResponseParker]

Keep working on that German pronunciation.

[rickjones53]

I have studied German, French and Portuguese earlier as well but have never reached fluency. I now plan to do so with LingQ.

German and Portuguese are less important and I plan to spent two to three hours a week on them just to awake them.

French is another matter. I studied French at night many years ago for a year and now plan to re-learn it using a home study course for Czech speakers. I really like this triangulation. One improves two foreign languages at once.

[rickjones53]

One of the great challenges for a polyglot is maintaining the level of all of their languages. In my own case I speak Czech, Russian and Spanish at a very high level in that order.

It takes quite a bit of work to maintain my level of fluency with Spanish and Russian. The LingQ system is great along with Radio Praha on the internet that has service is six languages. Radio Praha has broadcasts with texts in those languages and like with LingQ one can listen and read.

[rickjones53]

His Russian pronunciation is understanable. I have spoken Russian as a second language for more than 30 years and I have lived in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Considering the fact that Steve has not lived in Russia for any amount of time and had learned all on his own his performance is great.

Over time Steve will improve his cases.

I know people who can ace a Russian grammar exam but cannot put two sentences together.

[lingosteve]

@rickjones53 Thanks for the kind words. That was a few years ago. I did a recent little video rant in Russian (the beginning part of "It is never too late to learn languages". I believe that pronunciation and grammatical accuracy just increases with exposure to the language.As long as we pay attention to the language.

[astralrock]

Hey, that's pretty good Russian, I must tell. I am Serbian, and I have understood almost everything. :)

Wonder, because of similarity, could you understand other Slavonic languages?

Greetings

[kninametalhead]

@astralrock Another Serbian on Steve's video! ^_^

I don't see any active Serbs on Lingq, except me. :(

[kateDAbomb]

what about Polish?

[duodat]

@kateDAbomb nothing special about it ;)

[yamazaki123456789]

Sem duvida que o importante é escutar bastante.. yo sé hablar solamente 4 lenguas pero aun tengo muchos problemas con el español, ago teatro en España y aqui me machacan bastante con la lengua.. You know the words, but there so many pauses.. anyway, you're incredible I wish to know so many language like you. I will subscribe you! See you later!

[vitor210819911]

qual foi a lingua mais dificil pra você aprender???

[lingosteve]

Chines

[PabloFrozen]

Incrível.

[mahsafagga]

wenn er die paar aussprachefehler korrigieren würde, könnte er nahezu als deutscher muttersprachler durchgehen.

grossartig!

sehr beeindruckend.

[FABIOh1976]

Muito bem!

[zimmermann10]

Eu sou brasileiro e entendi tudo o que vc disse, parabéns.Apenas o ritmo está não está correto, pausa e fala, pausa e fala; não há um fluxo.

Mas de qualquer forma está maravilhoso, mais uma vez parabéns!

[ReitaTheGazeRock]

wow, sie sind echt gut, ich möchte auch gerne japanisch können

[111kontakt]

WOW. I never heard anyone from foreign countries who can speak russian language so clearly! Many words and phrases sound absolutely without accent! cool

No wonder you are general director of Linguist Institute.

[somerandomdude999]

What are you talking about? His Russian pronunciation is hideous. Several grammatical mistakes in his speech too. He needs to learn his cases better.

[JonVonD]

pretty much what I was thinking too.

[poliglotta80]

I think he speaks them all very well, but as far as mere pronunciation is concerned, swedish is surprisingly good, german is very good as well. French, spanish and italian are pretty fine, although there's an anglosaxon sound to them all. The pronunciation of russian is very good as well!Congratulations!

[vaak007]

i cant really tell how well you speak all those other languages, but as a native speaker of german i can tell you that you had quite a nice accent. some words were pretty wrong though xD

what really cracked me up at one point was the word that sounded somewhat like "Erwuxner" by which I suppose you meant "Erwachsener."

[piotrekk123]

You have very nice russian accent :) Some words and sentences sound very similar in russian and polish (I'm from Poland) so I can understand a little bit of russian.How long it took you to lear russian? and was the accent difficult for you to learn?

[lingosteve]

I have been basically listening to Russian and reading Russian and learning words using LingQ. I rarely speak and do not make any effort to practice pronunciation. I think a lot of listening, without trying too hard to pronounce too early, is the best way to achieve a good accent. Russian pronunciation is difficult because of all the consonants, but I do not think it is more difficult than other languages. If you think you can imitate the accent, you usually can. It is mostly in the mind.