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Timothy Doner, an enormously accomplished language learner at age 17, talks with us in French, Mandarin and Russian, explains how each language “feels” to him, and shares some of his tips
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hyper-polyglot Tim Doner has been teaching himself languages since he was 13. He now speaks nearly 20 languages!
Hear Timothy Doner speak French: https://youtu.be/cKlWBKhe2rs?t=7m41s
Hear Timothy Doner speak Mandarin: https://youtu.be/cKlWBKhe2rs?t=8m13s
Hear Timothy Doner speak Russian: https://youtu.be/cKlWBKhe2rs?t=8m37s
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cool guy
You just need to do 100 push-ups, 100 sit-ups, 100 squats, and a 10km run every single day, and then you will be strong like One Punch Man Saitama, it's easy!
Would love for him to learn gorgûn, the language of the Drúedain.
the intresting thing about english native speakers is that their second language is so free of limits. For us non-englishs its like mandatory to learn english as second language because without it you are lost today.
His russian is so painful
Why does the Chinese lady look so confused? Lol.
His tip on developing a "voice" or personality is the technique used by Memory Mentor in Accelerated Spanish.
I found it interesting that the language reflects the culture in which the language is spoken.
What is he doing now in 2018?
Best interview of Tim Doner by far. I wonder why Tim isn't active in the Youtube world anymore. Did all the media frenzy tire him out? I would like to know how many languages he speaks today, or how much more fluent he got in his languages.
8:17 she has no clue what he's saying
2:10 explain agglutination to our "audience" .. nice move Lane, nice move
When he talked about aglutination, he said there's no such thing as aglutination in Europe but, the oldest lenguage in the world that still exists (Euskera/Basque) is an European lenguage and does use aglutination. As a basque I'm a bit offended that averyone forgets about us.
He is amazing. His brain and body are definitely hard wired for language. It's funny how he thinks he's not all that good, and that his French has atrophied. His French is flawless, and the other two languages were amazingly fast and sure footed.
Russian and english are my 2nd and 3rd languages and listening a native english speaker speak russian was very interesting. He has a charming accent, talks like in the russian movies. It truly amazes me how a person who’s linguistic system is soo different from russian’s can speak like that.
His english is just beautiful. The way he constructs those sentences in his mind so fast and pronounces them equally fast is just fascinating.
I’m a fluent speaker of three languages and hope to extend that to six and then one day become an interpreter – irish, English,spanish
Not only does he have a striking visual resemblance to Martin Shkreli, he also shares his intelligence gene!
that interviewer had some good questions
Wow! His english is really good!
He talks at the same speed as Ben Shapiro
This is one of the few persons that I actually believe he's telling the truth about knowing a lot of languages and even be fluent, besides, his english is very well, he has a good vocabulary.