Which Characteristic Features do Succesful Internet Polyglots have?

Let's collect the charateristic features of successful internet polyglots here on my blog! :) To make it interactive, we will do this in English, not in Dutch. I will start making up a list...

1. He or she has already successfully learned several languages to at least intermediate levels.

2. He or she has an own blog and / or an own You Tube channel.

3. He or she uses individual learning methods tailored to his / her own person.

4. He or she is well integrated in the internet language learning community.

5. He or she takes part in Polyglot Conferences or Polyglot Gatherings.

6. He or she inspires many other language learners.

7. He or she is capable of giving good language advice to learners who have questions about language learning.

8. He or she teaches, translates or interprets languages professionally or hobbywise.

9. He or she is the type of person who does not easily give up learning certain languages.

So far my own ideas, I will add your points to this list, if I agree to them.

My Guest Post on Nee's Language Blog: My Scandinavian Language Studies of Danish and Norwegian Bokmål

My following article is republished from Nee's Language Blog. Teddy Nee is one of my Esperanto - friends on italki and a fellow Esperanto corrector of mine. You can find the clickable link to Teddy's Blog on the right-hand side under: "POPULAR LANGUAGE BLOGS".

My language studies of Danish and Norwegian Bokmål - My internet nickname is Fasulye, I live in Germany and my age is 53. All my life long I have been learning foreign languages beginning from early school age up to university courses, courses at the community college and finally also self-study and internet based language activities. For my speaking practice I use Skype on a regular basis now with different Skypies. In 2009 I restarted my language studies of Danish both with self-study of textbooks and workbooks and with community college language courses. Why Danish? This language has a bit the reputation of being difficult to pronounce! I visited Denmark already once in 2001 and Denmark is the closest Scandinavian country to Germany. Besides this I was born quite close to the Danish border in Schleswig-Holstein. So Danish was easy to choose for me as my 8th language. My advantage for studying such a language is that already speak native German, C2 -level Dutch and C1 -level English. So many words and some grammar structures were easier for me to understand. With such language background it is often possible to guess unknown words for example in a native level Danish text. And in my last Danish course we had to read in class and prepare at home lots of pages of native level texts from two books and a lot of newspaper articles. The prounciation of Danish is really tricky because the language is quite unphonetic, that means you write differently than you speak and several letters remain silent similar to for example French. But my big advantage was that in my Danish classes we all had to read out loud all kinds of Danish texts and our teacher always corrected our pronounciation, which was very helpful for me. Besides this I regularly listen to Danish language audio CD's on my MP3-player. In 2013 I took part in a Norwegian Bokmål crash course of three whole days at the community college out of curiosty and I found the language so easy to understand that after this crash course I decided to learn Norwegian as well. I started to self-study Norwegian as my 9th language with a German based textbook and audio CD's and I was very lucky that I found a Norwegian Skypie who first started an intensive e-mail correspondence with me inclusive the corrections of almost all of my Norwegian e-mails. In the very beginning my Norwegain sentences were full of Danish words, but the regular written corrections (which I all copied by hand) were the clue to help me seperate both languages Norwegian and Danish. So my Norwegain writings became less and less Danish and now I am able at least to write in Norwegian which really looks Norwegian, even if my spoken Norwegian has still some Danish elements. To get the Norwegian prounciation 100 % I would also need corrections of my spoken Norwegian. I now have the possibility to speak Danish with a Danish Skypie who speaks also Norwegian fluently and Norwegian with Norwegian Skypie who also has a decent knowledge of Danish. So, if I have language interferences between Danish and Norwegian, my Skypies as well as my correctors on the italki – website (www.italki.com) can point them out to me. My self-study learning strategy has been for the last few months that I alternate one week of Danish studies with one week of Norwegian studies all the time to make regular progress in both of my target languages. I now use German based textbooks and workbooks as well as audio – CD's and I post writing exercises for correction in both languages on the italki – website.