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| ProfArguelles Moderator United States foreignlanguageexper Joined 7255 days ago 609 posts - 2102 votes  | Message 1 of 10 26 March 2005 at 10:39pm | IP Logged | ||
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In their book, "The Art and Science of Learning Languages," the authors Gethin and Gunnemark mention the names of several people who supposedly know 60, 70, or 80 languages. However, they do not give any biographical information. They do say, however, that all of them (the mentioners and the mentionees) belong to an association named Amici Linguarum. My efforts to find information about this have all been in vain. Does anybody know anything?
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| administrator Hexaglot Forum Admin Switzerland FXcuisine.com Joined 7375 days ago 3094 posts - 2987 votes 12 sounds Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 10 27 March 2005 at 12:58am | IP Logged | ||
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Ardaschir, I have read this book and recall this mention.
Why would you not try to contact M. Gethin? His address is on his website registration: A. Gethin 60 Scotland Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB4 1QG GB editor@english-learning.co.uk I found in this article that "The Association Amici Linguarum was founded in 1964 as a Scandinavian association of people interested in languages and culture." Edited by administrator on 27 March 2005 at 6:26am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Lugubert Heptaglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 6866 days ago 186 posts - 235 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Danish, Norwegian, EnglishC2, German, Dutch, French Studies: Mandarin, Hindi | Message 3 of 10 10 February 2010 at 1:21pm | IP Logged | ||
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Not having found rules against thread necromancy, some excerpts from yesterday's mail:
After E. Gunnemark's death in 2007, the Association fell apart, but now a spearhead of several people are enthusiastic about resuming it. So far, the activities of the revived Association extend to editing a Journal and organising linguistic meetings as well as free linguocultural courses. Contact addresses: magnus.jo.larsson@gmail.com, amicilinguarum@rambler.ru 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Johntm Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5421 days ago 616 posts - 725 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 4 of 10 11 February 2010 at 5:39am | IP Logged | ||
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That's interesting...I would like to join...
I only have to learn at least 59 more languages... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6702 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 5 of 10 11 February 2010 at 2:31pm | IP Logged | ||
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I spent some time yesterday googling for Gethin and Gunnemark and for the Amici Linguarum. I found next to nothing about the Amici, and what I found was devoid of real information. There is a list of names in the book of Gunnemark, cfr. below. The majority of the links to Gunnemark were only concerned with his book "The Art and Science of Learning Languages", and in particular to the Russian translation of it. Even his own homepage http://www.kebi.se/erikgunnemark/ has very little information about himself.
His coauthor Amorey Gethin has got a homepage called www.lingua.org.uk (which is where the information given by Administrator is found), and Gethin has also written a number of books and articles which are seen as quite controversial in the language teaching business. I have only read a few things I could find on the internet, but nowhere else in these the Amici were mentioned. In principle Gunnemark may have been able to collect an international group of towering language learning giants who each spoke more than sixty languages, but it doesn't seem that they have been too keen about divulgating details about their activities to the public. For those who would like to continue the search this is the namelist of 'Amici' given in Gunnemark and Gethin's book, p. 5: Hans Alberg (Sweden), Leonard R.N. Ashley (USA), ROland J-L. Breton (France), Eugene Czerniawski (Russia), Johannes Hedberg (Sweden), Ola J. Holten (Norway/Sweden), Arvo Juutilainen (Finland), DOnald Kenrick (UK), Mary Ritchie Key (USA), Gustav Korlén (Sweden), Mari-Anne Lindblom (Sweden), Pent Nurmekund (Estonia), Pierre L.Sales (USA), Hans Joachim Störig (Germany) and Robert J. Trockmorton (USA). Edited by Iversen on 11 February 2010 at 3:25pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
 magister Pro Member United States Joined 6602 days ago 346 posts - 421 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Turkish, Irish Personal Language Map | Message 6 of 10 11 February 2010 at 11:34pm | IP Logged | ||
Key was a linguist at one of the University of California campuses and died several years ago. One can read a brief bio here. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Aurelio Newbie Sweden fritenkaren.se Joined 5393 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes Speaks: English | Message 7 of 10 17 February 2010 at 7:12pm | IP Logged | ||
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Amorey Gethin has not been able to access this forum himself but has asked me to publish his reply:
"I spent some time yesterday googling for Gethin and Gunnemark and for the Amici Linguarum. I found next to nothing about the Amici, and what I found was devoid of real information. There is a list of names in the book of Gunnemark, cfr. below. The majority of the links to Gunnemark were only concerned with his book "The Art and Science of Learning Languages", and in particular to the Russian translation of it. Even his own homepage http://www.kebi.se/erikgunnemark/ has very little information about himself." What is described above as Gunnemark's book ("his book"), "The Art and Science of Learning Languages", is the one we wrote together (I in fact wrote four-fifths of it). Gunnemark's book that has been translated into Russian is a quite separate book, and was originally written and published in Swedish: "Konsten att lära sig språk" [the art of leaning languages]. Despite Gunnemark's generous statement that it was written in collaboration with me, I in fact contributed nothing except the offer of a little advice. If I remember rightly, it was translated into Russian by Dimitri L. Spivak. "The Art and Science of Learning Languages" has not been translated into any language. Best wishes, Amorey Gethin" 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6702 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 8 of 10 13 April 2010 at 12:53pm | IP Logged | ||
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I saw this answer somewhat belatedly, but thanks to Aurelio (and Gethin) for sorting out some misunderstandings about the books. So there are two different books, but with very similar titles.
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