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| Gorgoll2 Senior Member Brazil veritassword.blogspo Joined 5132 days ago 159 posts - 192 votes  Speaks: Portuguese* | Message 1 of 82 26 October 2010 at 1:52am | IP Logged | ||
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This is my first topic in this forum.
On fictional works - comics, books, animes among others - some chracters have great language abilities: Uncle Scrooge is a super polyglot, in the Carl Barks´ and Don Rosa´s stories I saw it sapeak: Arabic, Spanish, French, Swedish, Maya, Japanese, Finnish, German and many dialects of Chinese. Dr. Gregory House speak fluently five languages beyond English: Spanish, Portuguese, Hindi, Japanese and Mandarin. It´s rare, few people speak Portuguese - and few Brazilian speak other languages... According the Brazilian Wikipedia, James Bons speak English, French, German, Italian and Russian - he´s a enemy of KGB perfectly and can speak fluently Spanish, Greek, Mandarin and Japanese. Raven of Young Titans speak eleven languages among them Sanskrit and Ancient Sumerian. Do you know others fictional polyglots? PS: Pardon me errors, I am still learning English 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| ReneeMona Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5321 days ago 864 posts - 1274 votes Speaks: Dutch*, EnglishC2 Studies: French | Message 2 of 82 26 October 2010 at 2:13am | IP Logged | ||
Congratulations on your first post, Gorgoll2!
Dr. House just became even cooler. ;-) If I remember correctly, Albus Dumbledore and Barty Crouch sr. from the Harry Potter books were both impressive polyglots, speaking over two hundred languages including Mermish, Gobbledegook and Bulgarian. 10 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6456 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 3 of 82 26 October 2010 at 1:46pm | IP Logged | ||
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Old Shatterhand from the Karl May novels speaks German, French, English, Italian,
Spanish, Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Romanian, 6 dialects of Arabic, Persian, 2 dialects of Kurdish, 2 dialects of Chinese, Malay, Khoekhoe, some Sundanese dialects, Swahili, Hindustani, Turkish, Lakota, Apache, Comanche, Shoshone, Paiute, Kiowa, Quechua and 3 other South American languages, plus a bit of Lappish. What makes the novels so interesting for a language geek is that they often contain words or phrases in these languages. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6568 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 4 of 82 26 October 2010 at 4:39pm | IP Logged | ||
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I recall an awesome YouTube video clip posted here a while ago where young Indiana Jones has a polyglot-off with a pretty lady. many languages were spoken, including Swedish (yay!), albeit with a terrible accent.
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| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5542 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 5 of 82 26 October 2010 at 4:50pm | IP Logged | ||
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And don't forget Dr Dolittle... ;) Edited by Teango on 26 October 2010 at 4:50pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| maydayayday Pentaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5205 days ago 564 posts - 839 votes Speaks: English*, German, Italian, SpanishB2, FrenchB2 Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Polish, Persian, Vietnamese Studies: Urdu | Message 6 of 82 26 October 2010 at 5:22pm | IP Logged | ||
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James Bond speaks Japanese (according to the books that is - I don't remember a reference to it in films).... I realise one other language doent make him a 'proper' polyglot but I thought I'd let you in on it anyway.
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| Johnnysd Diglot Newbie Norway johnnysd.deviantart. Joined 5603 days ago 18 posts - 33 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English Studies: German, Italian, Korean, French | Message 7 of 82 26 October 2010 at 6:57pm | IP Logged | ||
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Jason Bourne, at least in the movies, command a fair amount of languages. Russian,
Italian, Spanish, French, German and English are the languages I remember hearing him speak, but according to wikipedia, he might speak Portugese as well. 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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