Speaking Adventure

What Makes a Polyglot? And What do Polyglots Think About Language Learning? (Part 1)

John Fotheringham — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 20:54:02 +0000

by Antonio Graceffo. Many people wish to learn a foreign language. Unfortunately, like weight loss, playing the guitar, and earning a black belt in martial arts, mastering a foreign language is one of those dreams that people spend a lot of money on, but somehow never achieve. While the average person struggles to master a [...]

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Native Tongue and Learning Vietnamese Language

John Fotheringham — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 19:33:22 +0000

When I started my Vietnamese intensive course, a lot of non-linguistists I talked to said that the Chinese students would have an advantage because they already speak a tonal language. It is true that some Westerners could be completely stumped by tones, and just not get the language at all. But, a person who already [...]

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New Media: From “E-lebrity” to Financial Independence. Is it really possible?

John Fotheringham — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 21:23:17 +0000

by Antonio Graceffo Justin Halpern made a move from Twitter to network television, when his rants, entitled “Shit My Dad Says”, was picked up as a TV series. According to a recent report out of Japan, five out of the top ten Japanese best sellers in 2007 were novels written by texting on a cell [...]

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Teaching English Pronunciation to Vietnamese Students

John Fotheringham — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 19:54:47 +0000

by Antonio Graceffo An ESL teacher in Saigon wrote me: “As you may have worked out already, the pronunciation of Vietnamese ESL learners is not great. I am looking at ways to try and improve the pronunciation of the learners at my school.” ”As a linguist, do you have any insights into spoken English and [...]

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Brooklyn Monk in Asia Podcast Voted a “Mover and Shaker” on Podomatic

John Fotheringham — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 00:07:47 +0000

Even being nominated for an Academy Award is a great honor. Antonio Graceffo was never nominated, but he did win something: not an Emmy, not a Tony, not even a Soapy, but his podcast, Brooklyn Monk in Asia just received the Mover and Shakers award. It’s not an award exactly, it was a congratulatory email from Podomatic, the host [...]

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Movie Stunt Fighting in 3D: Parts 1 through 3

John Fotheringham — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 15:00:00 +0000

Learning to fight in the movies! In Bangkok, Thailand, Antonio Graceffo finds John Ledalski, a veteran of more than 50 films. Sifu Ledalski is a martial arts master, an experienced stuntman, and a respected stuntman trainer. Antonio asks John to help him prepare for his upcoming work in TV and films. This episode of Martial Arts [...]

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Chuck Norris Doesn’t Know My Name

John Fotheringham — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 06:50:03 +0000

About “Chuck Norris Doesn’t Know my Name” By Antonio Graceffo In an interview recently, someone asked me how I got my start in TV and video work. The funny story is that my first film work was in 1989, when I was an extra in Delta Force Part II, with my idol, Chuck Norris. At [...]

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Is the Problem Your English Level or Your Education Level?

John Fotheringham — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 08:24:50 +0000

by Antonio Graceffo A Khmer student wrote to me on youtube and asked me to produce videos about how to read English language newspapers. “I’d like to ask you to make videos how to read newspaper and translate it from English to Khmer. I Khmer and I having a problem to understand English phrases.” Wrote [...]

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Brooklyn Monk in Asia: Exploring Religion

John Fotheringham — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 03:15:08 +0000

Brooklyn Monk, Antonio Graceffo has been in Asia studying martial arts, languages and religion for nearly nine years. This video was made in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where Antonio was attending classes about Islam. He grabbed two Chinese cameramen, one protestant and one Buddhist, and headed out to explore many of the religions of Southeast Asia, [...]

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Muay Thai Goes 3D

John Fotheringham — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 03:07:29 +0000

The punches came right off the screen and someone all the way back in the cheap seats got a nose bleed from a kick in the face. The only thing more exciting than a martial arts fight is a martial arts fight in 3D. Al Caudullo, of 3DGuy.tv and Exploreworldtv, and Ric Lawes, of Location [...]

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