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| translator2 Senior Member United States Joined 6917 days ago 848 posts - 1862 votes  Speaks: English* | Message 1 of 9 30 December 2010 at 7:49pm | IP Logged |
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This is a thirteen-part video interview about languages and language learning with Carlos Amaral Freire (sorry - all in Portuguese) who studied 120 languages. My apologies if this is a repeat.
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8 Part 9 Part 10 Part 11 Part 12 Part 13 Edited by translator2 on 30 December 2010 at 7:49pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6701 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 9 30 December 2010 at 9:22pm | IP Logged |
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Freire has been mentioned before (in this thread), but these 13 videos are new to me - although not for much longer. They have apparently been on Youtube for a year, but only had 2-300 views each. Edited by Iversen on 30 December 2010 at 9:43pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Gorgoll2 Senior Member Brazil veritassword.blogspo Joined 5144 days ago 159 posts - 192 votes Speaks: Portuguese* | Message 3 of 9 31 December 2010 at 1:53am | IP Logged |
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I saw these videos when I began to learn languages. He spoke many tongues. I may make a
translation to English when I will get fluency. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Matheus Senior Member Brazil Joined 5079 days ago 208 posts - 312 votes Speaks: Portuguese* Studies: English, French | Message 4 of 9 31 December 2010 at 3:13am | IP Logged |
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Interesting videos.. He is a smart man. But for me it just seems overwhelming studying all those languages.
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| Yvelle Diglot Newbie United States Joined 6312 days ago 14 posts - 17 votes Speaks: Mandarin, English* Studies: Gypsy/Romani | Message 5 of 9 01 January 2011 at 6:00am | IP Logged |
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Is there a video clip that shows him speaking in 120 different languages?
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| vilas Pentaglot Senior Member Italy Joined 6958 days ago 531 posts - 722 votes Speaks: Spanish, Italian*, English, French, Portuguese | Message 6 of 9 01 January 2011 at 10:51am | IP Logged |
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Yvelle asks :
Is there a video clip that shows him speaking in 120 different languages? I found in internet this sentence : Freire não fala 120 línguas. Isso é humanamente impossível.Ele fala umas 30 com ou mais ou menos razoável fluência (Freire is not speaking 120 linguas . This is humanly ipossible. He speaks about 30 languages with more or less reasonable fluency) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| vilas Pentaglot Senior Member Italy Joined 6958 days ago 531 posts - 722 votes Speaks: Spanish, Italian*, English, French, Portuguese | Message 8 of 9 10 January 2011 at 11:56am | IP Logged |
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I understand now : Mr Freire has a passive knowledge of these 100 language .
More or less like Mr. Riccardo Bertani . Read the article below about him. Riccardo Bertani learned more than 100 languages He, son of the communist mayor of Campegine (Province of Reggio Emilia) found the Russians books at home (Gogol,Puskin,Gorki), the great master Tolstoy ). So in his twenty, he start to study Russian and become a phenomenon, In few months he learn it and translates the poems of the Ucrainian Shevchenko , discovered in a book that a fugitive forgot in the house of the Cervi brothers , friends of his uncle. Since then, this gentleman that now is in his 75 and doesn't wear glasses has learnt more than 100 languages." Let's say that I read it and I write it, but I don't think I pronounce it well" He explains " You know, to speak a language you need to travel. And I always feared to be disappointed travelling abroad" Riccardo Bertani is the most extravagant Italian intellectual. Glottologue and distinguished translator, is considered in the world as one of the greatest expert of central- asian languages and cultures. He knows among others, Serbo-Croatian, Lithuanian, Basque, Etruscan, Ajnu, Samojedan, Persian, Tungusian, Recently he accomplished an Italian-mongolian dictionary , he also translated siberian proverbs, chants of Jukagheeres sheperds and fairies of Lapland . He edited a grammar of his Reggiano dialect, a dictionary of Orochian ( tungusian and manchurian language of Siberia ) and a longobardian glossary . This man, in all his life raised goats, living with his mother and few cats in his house in the "Pianura reggiana" . He is an expert of toponomy and dialects , but also of apicolture . Bertani has connections with several european universities ,as well as with the Royal Academies of Danmark and Sweden . In forty years of activity he edited articles and essay writings , he collaborated with the Utet encyclopedia , he held conferences in several Italian universities and elaborated new theories. For instance he realized the fact that Etrurian , with the Basque , could be an iberian-caucasic language . And that Maya and some siberian languages are neighborly . All this did'n't change his lifestyle : he keeps writing with a ballpoint pen on old agendas in an unkept and dusty office between a mass of stacked books all over the place . He keeps wearing woden shoes and spoiled pullovers , going around in the house bare-chested ,and using an old heater that blackens the ceiling. Today his house has becomed almost a museum , on the brass nameplate it is written in County Library of Campegine, Riccardo Bertani Foundation. The County allocated the money to catalog all his writings, and the house is full of any kind of thing: mongolian,siberian,karelian magazines ; arab proverbs ,a rutulian lexicon (they live on the Caspian Sea ,also the ancient roman poet Virgilius talks about them) a gothic-italian glossary and books on the Chechnian tradition that not even in Chechnya are remembered . A legacy that sooner or later will become of public domain and for the time being found place in shelves too much aseptic for Bertani . Because the life of that man did'n't changed he never go out, this is what say his neighbours . He wake up at 3 a.m. and studies till 9 a.m. "in these hours my mind is fresher" he explains. Then lunch, siesta , some work in the vegetable garden and then goes to bed after the news . He like to say that is inspired by the great Tolstoy according to the ethic of simple things , that someone is worth for who he is not for what he has .And when you ask him if he did ever traveled , his answer is disarming "Yes I visited the Florence University once" 1 person has voted this message useful |
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