Guido Super Polyglot Senior Member ArgentinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6528 days ago 286 posts - 582 votes Speaks: Spanish*, French, English, German, Italian, Portuguese, Norwegian, Catalan, Dutch, Swedish, Danish Studies: Russian, Indonesian, Romanian, Polish, Icelandic
| 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*
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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 Pentaglot Senior Member Italy Joined 6960 days ago 531 posts - 722 votes Speaks: Spanish, Italian*, English, French, Portuguese
| 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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translator2 Senior Member United States Joined 6919 days ago 848 posts - 1862 votes Speaks: English*
| 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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Johntm Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5422 days ago 616 posts - 725 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish
| 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.
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You mean like he's a savant? The Rainman of languages?
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Sayumi Groupie Japan Joined 5418 days ago 51 posts - 75 votes Speaks: Japanese
| 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? |
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I think he means mentally ill as in paranoid schizophrenic ill.
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vilas Pentaglot Senior Member Italy Joined 6960 days ago 531 posts - 722 votes Speaks: Spanish, Italian*, English, French, Portuguese
| 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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translator2 Senior Member United States Joined 6919 days ago 848 posts - 1862 votes Speaks: English*
| 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
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translator2 wrote:
"nací con un tálento divino": I was born with a divine talent.
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You mean like he's a savant? The Rainman of languages? |
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Edited by translator2 on 04 April 2010 at 12:15am
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ruskivyetr Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5481 days ago 769 posts - 962 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Russian, Polish, Modern Hebrew
| 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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