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American Polyglot Practicing Languages

Here's a video of me talking for a bit in English, Spanish, French, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish. Let me know if you have any advice for how I can improve! ...
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Hi my name is Brennan and lately on Youtube I've seen a lot of polyglot videos...or not really polyglot videos but videos where people record themselves speaking other languages and get help on how they can change their pronunciation or grammar or anything like that. I thought I would give it a go. So right now I'm speaking my first language: English which is my mother tongue. The second language that I'm going to start with is Spanish. Spanish is my second language and it's the language that I learned after English. I started to study Spanish in High School. This year is my first year in college and I am taking a third year Spanish class. This year I have had a professor from Columbia and Spain. This has helped me a lot to hear the differences in the language because in the past my teachers have been from Mexico or the US. In general in the US we learn Mexican Spanish as far as the accent in concerned but we learn a more formal Spanish. For me the Spanish that we learn is a little bit more similar to the Spanish from Spain but we don't have to learn things like vosotros or vos and things like that. Spanish is the language that I practice more than the others. There are a lot of native Spanish speakers here in Oregon which is the state I live in in the US. The majority of them are from Mexico and because of this Mexican Spanish is a little bit easier for me to understand. In general though, Mexicans speak a little bit too fast to understand but like the accent is easier to understand. Umm next I'm going to speak French. French is a beautiful language and I love French. This year is my first year in college and I'm taking a class called French 103 which is the first year of French there. There aren't a lot of native French speakers here in Oregon so I don't practice it a lot with native speakers. So I watch tv shows and series in French like on Netflix. Now I'm watching Les Anges de la téléréalité the fifth season and they're in the US. I really like the show, it's funny and amusing but my professor told me that it's a terrible example of French (the language) and French TV. Also I have a friend who is a French exchange student from Lyon and she tells me the same thing. But it helps me, it helps me with the pronunciation and spoken French. I don't really have any other choices to practice French. Now I'm going to speak Danish. My Danish is bad but I LOVE Danish, it's my favorite language. I'm a Danish American, I have a Dannebrog there and I have a little Dannebrog on my car. I love Danmark, Danish culture. My dad's family came from Denmark to the US but they don't speak Danish now. So I taught myself Danish. That's why my Danish is so bad. But I taught myself Danish with Danish movies, Danish music and I really love Danish music and Danish movies like Broen. It's like with...it's with the Øresund Bridge and Denmark and Sweden and I love it. Oh and Rita pa TV2 I love that one too. Also they have like....Danmark på prærien and it's a Danish documentary about Danish Americans here in the US. It's kind of like my family we eat Æbleskiver and pølse and it's not midisterpølse but just regular pølse and frikadeller. Yeah so we eat those together. Now I'm going to speak Norwegian. I have a Norwegian-American friend in my Spanish class and we speak together. Like we're in Spanish class but we speak in...we say "Scandinavian". I try to speak Danish and he understands me a bit....yeah so we talk together. I speak more "Norwegian" I say like Danish words but in what I think is a "Norwegian" accent and he understands me when I talk like that. But yeah I love Norwegian too, I love the Scandinavian languages. Yeah...but we talk like that. I don't really speak Swedish, my Swedish is kind of the same as my Norwegian. So I don't really speak Swedish but I love Swedish. There was a Swedish show...I don't know it (right now) but it was in Skåne and I love Skåne it's like Denmark but in Sweden and it was really good. So I speak English (my mother tongue), Spanish my second language, I spoke French, it was horrible but I spoke and after that I spoke Danish, my bad American Danish and I spoke Norwegian, it wasn't really Norwegian but Danish in a "Norwegian" accent and also Swedish but it wasn't really Swedish Swedish.
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BC annotated1+ month ago

Here's a video of me talking for a bit in English, Spanish, French, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish. Let me know if you have any advice for how I can improve! ... ...

#Education #Languages #American Polyglot Practicing Languages
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