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Guido
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 Message 9 of 23
02 April 2010 at 1:29am | IP Logged 
Sayumi wrote:
ZF: Bien, todos me interesan, peró el mas dificil es el Chino Mandarin,
porque es escrito con ideogrammas, grammatica muy simple, y los idiomas también
occidentales que me interesan como el francez, l'aleman, por causa de las cienc(I)as*
(??) politicas, la literatura y otras cosas culturales.


He says in fact: "...el Chino Mandarín, porque su 'escrita' su ideogramas, gramática
muy simple..."

He meant "ciencias políticas" but said something like "cientes"

After the russian guy ask him that question, he says: "Bien, una cosa, una cosa. Esos
idiomas, en verdad, el croata, el, el, el, porque en verdad no me avisón con
telación
(correct: 'no me avisaron con antelación) que habrí (correct:
habría) esos idiomas aqui. Porque si me hubiesen avisado con telación (again the same
word), yo los, ehm, yo me habría preparado porque hace más de 20 años que no estoy
practicándolos"

20 years... why on earth does he claim to speak it?

Oh, and he studied Finnish for 3 month... 3...


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vilas
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 Message 10 of 23
02 April 2010 at 11:57am | IP Logged 

Have a look here

http://ardentagnostic.blogspot.com/2009/03/ziad-fazah-man-wh o-does-not-speak-59.html
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 Message 11 of 23
02 April 2010 at 3:39pm | IP Logged 
"nací con un tálento divino": I was born with a divine talent.

Has anyone ever considered the possibility that he has a mental illness?

Edited by translator2 on 02 April 2010 at 3:43pm

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 Message 12 of 23
03 April 2010 at 5:15am | IP Logged 
translator2 wrote:
"nací con un tálento divino": I was born with a divine talent.

Has anyone ever considered the possibility that he has a mental illness?
You mean like he's a savant? The Rainman of languages?
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 Message 13 of 23
03 April 2010 at 10:39am | IP Logged 
Johntm wrote:
You mean like he's a savant? The Rainman of languages?

I think he means mentally ill as in paranoid schizophrenic ill.
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 Message 14 of 23
03 April 2010 at 2:18pm | IP Logged 

In this link another would-be polyglot the iranian Ali Pirhani

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKtBZZ1oeGE

and here his website

http://polyglotcenter.org/en/ali-pirhani





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 Message 15 of 23
04 April 2010 at 12:14am | IP Logged 
He is most definitely NOT a savant. I meant that he could be insane, crazy or delusional. As of 2008, he was still going around telling people (New Scientist Magazine) that he could speak over 50 languages.

See:
Narcissistic Personality Disorder


Johntm wrote:
translator2 wrote:
"nací con un tálento divino": I was born with a divine talent.

Has anyone ever considered the possibility that he has a mental illness?
You mean like he's a savant? The Rainman of languages?


Edited by translator2 on 04 April 2010 at 12:15am

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 Message 16 of 23
04 April 2010 at 12:23am | IP Logged 
What makes me wonder, is how does he expect to get away with making these claims?


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