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| JimC Senior Member United Kingdom tinyurl.com/aberdeen Joined 5546 days ago 199 posts - 317 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 1 of 31 17 March 2012 at 2:29pm | IP Logged | ||
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/mar/16/i-speak-5 0-languages-experience
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| jdmoncada Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5033 days ago 470 posts - 741 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Finnish Studies: Russian, Japanese | Message 2 of 31 17 March 2012 at 2:37pm | IP Logged | ||
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| MarcusOdim Groupie Brazil Joined 4846 days ago 91 posts - 142 votes | Message 3 of 31 17 March 2012 at 7:00pm | IP Logged | ||
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"Now, I can read about three dozen languages and speak most of them fluently"
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| Michael K. Senior Member United States Joined 5728 days ago 568 posts - 886 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Esperanto | Message 4 of 31 17 March 2012 at 7:15pm | IP Logged | ||
He's spent most of his adult life (over 25 years) learning languages, sometimes for more than 12 hours a day. I wouldn't be surprised if he could speak several of them fluently as well as read them. This is unusual, because he usually tries to sidestep the issue of how many languages he knows. 7 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| vermillon Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4677 days ago 602 posts - 1042 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, German | Message 5 of 31 17 March 2012 at 7:18pm | IP Logged | ||
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And that comment about Esperanto... seriously, what was the point? (especially as a native speaker of the actual "world language")
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| Michael K. Senior Member United States Joined 5728 days ago 568 posts - 886 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Esperanto | Message 6 of 31 17 March 2012 at 7:23pm | IP Logged | ||
Yes, that is strange. I'm sure he knows that Esperanto isn't supposed to be the sole world language. The whole article seemed kind of strange. I wonder how much liberty the writer took with the professor's words? 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| outcast Bilingual Heptaglot Senior Member China Joined 4948 days ago 869 posts - 1364 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English*, German, Italian, French, Portuguese, Mandarin Studies: Korean | Message 7 of 31 18 March 2012 at 2:59am | IP Logged | ||
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I think it is possible to read a couple dozen languages and more, with years of dedication. Passive understanding and proper pronounciation, once learned, are much more unlikely to be lost or become "inactive", like speaking can.
As for speaking, it may be possible he can speak a similar amount with fluency, but not at the same time, save he has a gift which of course is never to be discounted. But if he does it means virtually no one else could replicate his success just my mimicking his lifestyle. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6908 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 8 of 31 18 March 2012 at 10:37am | IP Logged | ||
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When you've devoted time to many languages (or musical instruments) you see similarites all over the place. People who know only one don't see that. Of course it's possible to speak many languages at a high level.
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