Polyglot's story

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• Polyglot
• foreign language passion

[BMTH0084]

Did you pull lots of all-nighters during your hardcore studying days when studying Chinese?

[laoshu505000]

Man...not just for Chinese,I've pulled and still am pulling all nighters for language study.

[BMTH0084]

Will you be polishing up your French anytime soon and eventually making a French video compadre?

[laoshu505000]

Yes. I will very soon.

[zocurtis]

So you do know french. How come you didn't add it to your list of languages? I guess it is because of the speaking bit. I have noticed that is the western world, when a language is taught in a class, what is often taught in how the language work rather than how to use the language. I met a girl in canada who learnt french and spanish in france. She was fluent in both.

[laoshu505000]

Yea, I didn't add to my list because it was one of the languages I haven't really studied on my own seriously. But I'm about to start on it very soon.

[Paulbarbato]

Haha is that a real sword on your wall?

[jhg123456]

Conversate?

[TheAlyatay]

Have you ever travelled to places you can speak?

[TylorDark]

@laoshu505000 Hey... is it possible for me to learn more of a language if I did all nighters?

[jacobytyler]

what do you do for work as a polyglot? I study languages privately and like you had a difficult time in school with a similar mindset however I'm nervous about where to look in turning this into something I can do for a living so I don't have to dedicate time to something I don't care to do just to make money when I'd rather be just learning and developing my skills in another language.

[adiaz80]

This is truly inspirational, and I'm glad that there's a community of polyglots. I admire your knowledge. I'm a polyglot myself. I grew up speaking English and Spanish (family from Puerto Rico), but have been studying French, Italian, Portuguese, German, Swedish, Chinese (Mandarin), Japanese, Korean (living in Korea at the moment), Farsi, and Russian (have a private tutor). I'm at different levels with each. I wish you continued success, brother!

[MrDanielFittipaldi]

How many languages can you speak good?

[afterlifer]

I am an Arabic native speaker , I speak english ,french, italian, I study spanish , german, and some russian, I nearly drooled today when I saw a czech course book, yesterday too when I saw an indonesian dictionary, do I qualify for a maniac or a psycho? please please please?

[jugglingotaku]

I agree, I'm a native english speaker, but I still don't know all the words.

[tumsabai1]

@mariogabana

The following are Chinese languages:

Mandarin

contonese

Shanghalise

Hokkien

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