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| Nephilim Diglot Senior Member Poland Joined 7148 days ago 363 posts - 368 votes  Speaks: English*, Polish | Message 9 of 18 30 June 2005 at 6:22am | IP Logged |
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What contest? Have I missed something here, Raistlin?
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| administrator Hexaglot Forum Admin Switzerland FXcuisine.com Joined 7379 days ago 3094 posts - 2987 votes 12 sounds Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian Personal Language Map | Message 10 of 18 30 June 2005 at 7:07am | IP Logged |
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I imagine this is a contest, for there should already be a list of the languages people speak in their forum profiles.
Raistlin, would you care to explain the reason why you want this information posted in this thread, perhaps I did not understand correctly? For the 'what is a polyglot', we can use for the purpose of our discussions here a more precise denomination, for instance 'a 7-languages polyglot' or even 'a 6 languages paper polyglot' for people who have a mainly litterary knowledge of a language. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Raistlin Majere Trilingual Hexaglot Senior Member Spain uciprotour-cycling.c Joined 7155 days ago 455 posts - 424 votes 7 sounds Speaks: English*, Spanish*, Catalan*, FrenchA1, Italian, German Studies: Swedish | Message 11 of 18 30 June 2005 at 7:37am | IP Logged |
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The reason why I wanted this information:
I was reading the Wikipedia list of noted polyglots and I saw that to know five languages is enough to get you into that list. That made me think that many people here in the forum could easily be there, so I asked for this information to check if I was right. It was not my purpose to create any kind of contest whatever. Edited by Raistlin Majere on 30 June 2005 at 7:37am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| administrator Hexaglot Forum Admin Switzerland FXcuisine.com Joined 7379 days ago 3094 posts - 2987 votes 12 sounds Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian Personal Language Map | Message 12 of 18 30 June 2005 at 8:10am | IP Logged |
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Would there be any interest on this forum to create a separate section where we could list all polyglots, dead and alive, famous and not famous?
I thought of such a section where we could list all languages we or another person is said to speak, them rate each language by level of knowledge and level of certainty that this person actually speaks or spoke it. If people are interested I can probably create this on this website. We would have to find a way to confirm a person speaks a language, for example by having a third party (a forum member whose mother tongue it is) have a phone conversation with the person to check out the claim. We could then give out titles such as 'confirmed 4 languages polyglot' and so on. I was not sure if that would be such a good idea but since you raise the point, I'd like to hear what you think about this. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Raistlin Majere Trilingual Hexaglot Senior Member Spain uciprotour-cycling.c Joined 7155 days ago 455 posts - 424 votes 7 sounds Speaks: English*, Spanish*, Catalan*, FrenchA1, Italian, German Studies: Swedish | Message 13 of 18 30 June 2005 at 8:31am | IP Logged |
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I think that people should not be on the list unless it was absolutely certain they can speak the languages they claim they speak. For example, Mezzofanti would be on the list, because his existence is proven, but Ziad Fazah wouldn't because he's quite a mistery and there's much speculation about him.
On the other hand, how would you have those phone conversations with these persons? Would someone get the list of polyglots and spend a week phoning them to see if they really speak that language? I don't think it's very practical. EDIT: Nephilim, I'm not talking about famous polyglots, I only used Ziad Fazah and Mezzofanti as examples. Edited by Raistlin Majere on 30 June 2005 at 9:08am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Nephilim Diglot Senior Member Poland Joined 7148 days ago 363 posts - 368 votes Speaks: English*, Polish | Message 14 of 18 30 June 2005 at 8:42am | IP Logged |
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Sorry, but aren't there two converstaions going on here? Francois seems to be talking about forum members as polyglots but Raistlin seems to be talking about 'famous' polyglots as la Fazah and Mezzofanti - good luck getting the latter on the phone to check his credentials ;-)
I must admit the confirmed 4 language polyglot think sounds interesting - though possibly logistically tricky. Could we decide, then, whether the list is for forum polyglots or 'dead'/'famous' polyglots. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| andee Tetraglot Senior Member Japan Joined 7080 days ago 681 posts - 724 votes 3 sounds Speaks: English*, German, Korean, French | Message 15 of 18 21 July 2005 at 10:26am | IP Logged |
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Anyway... to answer the original post - My friend Dućn speaks 6 languages fluently and 2 languages about 8/10 across the skills.
Mothertongue: Norwegian Fluent: Swedish, Danish, English, German, Japanese 8/10: Korean, Chinese (Mandarin) But he's not famous... he's a bus driver, haha 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| victor Tetraglot Moderator United States Joined 7321 days ago 1098 posts - 1056 votes 6 sounds Speaks: Cantonese*, English, FrenchC1, Mandarin Studies: Spanish Personal Language Map | Message 16 of 18 21 July 2005 at 9:32pm | IP Logged |
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Andee, thanks for sharing that. It would be interesting to have a friend who knows so many languages. The first 5 on the list are not suprising, but fluent Japanese? Where did he learn this? Korean and Mandarin?
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