"The Art of Knowing A thousand Languages" = "el arte de saber mil idiomas" (please be patient and watch the entire thing) <object width="480" height="390"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/YIqL0ijen9A?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/YIqL0ijen9A?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="390"></embed></object> This is fascinating to me. Most of it I could understand... she's right on the money on most Spanish... I can probably imitate most of the Spanish ones... close to what she's doing or a little better...
Would be a bit, no, significantly more impressive with some African or Asian languages in there.. But she's still amazing
fully fluent: french english arabic greek armenian italian spanish pidgin english can carry conversation: igbo housa dahome
Nice. Which country's Spanish or what area of the world's Spanish do you speak? Subtle differences are there, as depicted by the YouTube, but... I am interested to find out what you know.
i learned it after moving to Houston as a teen (from France). Very easy to p-up as French is my 1st language.
Nice ,that is quite a collection of languages. Im guessing you have various ethnic backgrounds in your immediate family , or did you live in a certain area of Eastern/Southern Europe?
born in Lebanon, grew up in Benin City (Nigeria), secondary school in Paris (France). Go I.S.P.! 1/2 Lebanese 1/4 Greek 1/4 Armenian Fully Good Looking
Gotcha , must be nice to talk to women with those languages w/o a major problem. Def a beautiful part of the world in various aspects.
I'm going to Lebanon in August to live for a while, gonna work on my arabic, got any recommendations? I want to just meet and greet, talk to people in arabic, get more comfortable talking in public.