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| Journeyer Triglot Senior Member United States tristan85.blogspot.c Joined 6867 days ago 946 posts - 1110 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, German Studies: Sign Language | Message 17 of 24 24 April 2011 at 12:43am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I heard a recording of him speaking in Esperanto. I don't know where it is, but if you go to his bio in the Esperanto version of Wikipedia, there is a transcript.
I have no idea if he spoke it fluently, and I didn't read the Esperanto article that closely. I suspect though he probably was coached in it rather than knew it fluently. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Rycerz Newbie Poland Joined 5754 days ago 33 posts - 33 votes Studies: Ukrainian, Polish* Studies: English | Message 18 of 24 13 May 2011 at 10:21pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Jan Paweł II (John Paul II) spoke English, Spanish, Italian, French, Latin, German,
Russian fluently and of course in his native language - Polish. He also understood and spoke a bit in other languages like Ukrainian or Portuguese. 1 person has 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 19 of 24 14 May 2011 at 8:04am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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And now he has even been beatified.
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| Pablo_V Bilingual Tetraglot Newbie Spain Joined 4927 days ago 22 posts - 39 votes Speaks: Spanish*, Galician*, English, Portuguese Studies: French | Message 20 of 24 05 June 2011 at 4:02pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
In fact, he learned Spanish before he arrived at the Holy See, i.e., before he became the Pope. He used to read the writings of San Juan de la Cruz and Santa Teresa de la Cruz, who are told to be two of the greatest mystics of Catholic history. Beatus John Paul II was a polyglot himself, able to speak and have a conversation in many languages (how many? I guess that is what we are trying to find out). And he "spoke" many others with the aid of a sort of phonetical transcription. I think that is evidence of his will of being catholic, this is, universal. I don't know if we can find more data regarding his language skills in a biography of him -maybe V. Messori's work. I will have a try and post whatever info I may find, if any. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| FuroraCeltica Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6864 days ago 1187 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 21 of 24 04 August 2011 at 12:38am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Pope Pius X spoke Esperanto, in fact he was made the patron saint of Esperantists when he died in 1914 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6438 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 22 of 24 04 August 2011 at 2:32am | IP Logged | ||||||||
It looks like he was only canonized in the 1950s, but there are a couple of sources on the web claiming that he is indeed the patron saint of Catholic Esperantists. This is the first I hear of that; thank you for the information. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Frater Diglot Newbie Mexico Joined 4777 days ago 1 posts - 2 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Italian, French | Message 23 of 24 27 October 2011 at 4:41pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I have seen some videos in which he understood Spanish perfectly and other videos in which he spoke Spanish very well.
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| Remster Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4804 days ago 120 posts - 134 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English Studies: German, French | Message 24 of 24 03 November 2011 at 9:30am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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He was definitely a polyglot, too bad I'm too young to have witnessed it.
By the time I was old enough to have an interest in the pope, his voice was already sluggish. By the time I really started to get an interest in languages, he already died. For the ''OP'', the Poles I know only speak Polish. Are you talking about a multilingual area, or are they ''polyglot'' friends? 1 person has voted this message useful |
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