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| Nephilim Diglot Senior Member Poland Joined 7148 days ago 363 posts - 368 votes  Speaks: English*, Polish | Message 1 of 3 15 August 2005 at 5:31pm | IP Logged |
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Have any of you heard of István Dabi. I just found this on the Wikipedia so I'm not sure how accurate it is but it does make for interesting reading. He may or may not know all these languages but his method does seem to be quite similar to that which Ardaschir uses - the learning from context and the doing 15-20 minutes on each language at a time. Anyway, see what you think.
István Dabi, Sr. (June 12, 1943 –) is a Hungarian translator. He became famous at the age of 18, by which time he had acquired 18 languages in which he corresponded with 80 partners from 50 countries of the world. He worked as a correspondence clerk, guide, interpreter, translator and consulting editor. He mostly published his poems in Polish. He was married in 1970 to a language teacher of Polish origin from Lithuania; they have a son (István Mikołaj, 1971) and a daughter (Mária Rozália, 1973). He is a resident of Budapest, but he lived between 1971 and 1980 in Gdańsk. He divided languages he translates from into four categories: Practically without dictionary: Russian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Kashubian, Sorbian, Czech, Slovak, Serbian, Croatian, German, English, French, Spanish, Italian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian, Bulgarian, Macedonian With insignificant dictionary use: Slovene, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Romanian, Portuguese, Romansh, Turkish, Azerbaijani, Uzbek, Turkmen, Chuvash, Tatar, Bashkir, Finnish, Komi, Mari, Mordvin (Erzya and Moksha), Yiddish, Arabic, Maltese, Hindi, Persian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Mongolian, Buryat, Kalmyk, Armenian, Dari, Tajik With somewhat more dictionary use: Greek, Latin, Nepali, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tuvan, Altay, Yakut, Nanai, Evenk, Karachay, Adyghe, Kabardian, Avar, Lak, Karakalpak, Albanian, Japanese, Indonesian, Malay, Udmurt, Sanskrit, Bengali, Georgian With considerable dictionary use: Welsh, Irish, Thai, Lao, Khmer, Malayalam, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Sinhalese, Swahili, Lingala, Malagasy, Amharic, Fula, Hebrew, Chinese, Burmese, Tagalog, Nenets, Abkhaz, Chechen, Ingush, Pashto, Hausa, Tibetan These are 103 languages in total (the two Mordvin variants counted as one), without his native Hungarian. He can translate from these into Hungarian, Polish and Russian. Speech Out of the above, he fluently speaks Russian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Bulgarian, German, English, French and Lithuanian and after a few days' brush-up he could speak 14 more (Ukrainian, Belarusian, Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian, Sorbian, Latvian, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian). His language learning method 1 He chooses 1000-1500 basic words (from the topics of family, work, everyday life etc.) and learns them along with the most important grammar (declension, conjugation, pronouns and word order). 2 He starts reading fairly easy texts with a dictionary, in accordance with his interests. (The texts may be newspaper articles, specialized texts or whatever else.) 3 For some people it is needed to write out and keep repeating the unknown words; for others, it is enough to read them. His experience is that it is much easier to learn new words by means of conclusion (inference), i.e. through their context. 4 If possible, he starts correspondence with people, possibly those with the same job and interests, whose native tongue is the one he is studying. (It is important so as to avoid taking over mistakes from anyone who only learnt it.) 5 He starts listening to foreign language radio broadcast, even if one initially doesn't undertand practically anything, since one will gradually get used to the sounding of the foreign language. 6 He considers it essential to deal with the language every day at least 15-20 minutes. (If it seems impossible, one should first learn how to budget one's time.) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| mello Groupie Brazil mypolyglot.com Joined 7057 days ago 48 posts - 48 votes Speaks: Portuguese* Studies: English | Message 2 of 3 29 September 2005 at 6:26pm | IP Logged |
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I've never heard nothing about this man, but I'd say his method for learning languages was quite good.If someone find anoter things about this man, post here please, It would be quite useful.
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| morprussell Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7166 days ago 272 posts - 285 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French | Message 3 of 3 29 September 2005 at 11:44pm | IP Logged |
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This page lists his address, phone number, and email address. Perhaps someone from this website would like to invite him to join our discussions.
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