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| nordantill Triglot Newbie Sweden Joined 6823 days ago 16 posts - 54 votes  Speaks: Swedish*, English, Mandarin Studies: Spanish, French | Message 1 of 6 14 September 2006 at 10:14pm | IP Logged |
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Does anyone know anything about the Swedish translator and polyglot Erik Gunnemark?
I read his book "The art and science of learning languages" a few years ago, and found it very interesting. Unfortunately I somehow managed to lose the book and I'm now unable to find a new copy. I think that Gunneamrk stated in the book that he knows about 25 languages and can read several others. That's prety much what I remmeber of his lingusitic achivements, so I'd be glad if someone else could give some more information about him. Edited by Fasulye on 23 March 2012 at 12:59pm 1 person has 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 2 of 6 15 September 2006 at 7:56am | IP Logged |
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I think Lugubert knows him and/or have met him. Hope he finds this thread.
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| nordantill Triglot Newbie Sweden Joined 6823 days ago 16 posts - 54 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, Mandarin Studies: Spanish, French | Message 3 of 6 17 September 2006 at 6:27pm | IP Logged |
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Surely, there must be someone else out there who knows something about Gunnemark?
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| Gilmar Newbie Brazil Joined 4631 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes | Message 4 of 6 22 March 2012 at 9:45pm | IP Logged |
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Yes,he speak,fourty languages or more,view: Michael Erard é autor de Babel No More: The Search for the World Most Extraordinary Language Learners (Free Press). Artigos seus apareceram também no New York Times, Science, Wired, Slate in 2007.
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| daristani Senior Member United States Joined 7143 days ago 752 posts - 1661 votes Studies: Uzbek | Message 5 of 6 22 March 2012 at 11:01pm | IP Logged |
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I also like "The Art and Science of Learning Languages". Here's a small website with a photo of Gunnemark: http://www.kebi.se/erikgunnemark/
It was created by his son, who provides an e-mail address and expresses the willingness to help anyone interested in his father. 2 persons have 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 6 of 6 23 March 2012 at 9:22am | IP Logged |
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According to Erard - who had contact with Gunnemark just weeks before he died - Gunnemark may have studied forty languages, but he certainly didn't claim that he could speak them all.
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