IbanezFire Senior Member United States Joined 6697 days ago 119 posts - 124 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Russian
| Message 1 of 3 23 May 2007 at 10:47am | IP Logged |
According to Wikipedia...
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Tesla was fluent in many languages. Along with Serbian/Croatian (Serbocroatian), he also spoke seven other foreign languages: Czech, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, and Latin. |
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All I could find were repeats of the wikipedia entry or just entries acknowledging that he knew languages. Anyone have another source stating what languages he knew?
Edited by Fasulye on 08 November 2010 at 7:02pm
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Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6706 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 2 of 3 23 May 2007 at 12:36pm | IP Logged |
There are a few remarks by Tesla himself on his languages on this homepage.
Edited by Iversen on 24 May 2007 at 10:37am
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Captain Haddock Diglot Senior Member Japan kanjicabinet.tumblr. Joined 6771 days ago 2282 posts - 2814 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, Korean, Ancient Greek
| Message 3 of 3 24 May 2007 at 10:01am | IP Logged |
"It seems unfortunate that the English-speaking nations, who are now fittest to rule the world, while endowed with extraordinary energy and practical intelligence, are singularly wanting in linguistic talent."
He could say that again! (If he were alive.)
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