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| Raчraч Ŋuɲa Triglot Senior Member New Zealand Joined 5816 days ago 154 posts - 233 votes  Speaks: Bikol languages*, Tagalog, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, Russian, Japanese | Message 1 of 41 22 September 2010 at 9:37am | IP Logged | ||
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Is there any forum member here who speaks languages from 4 or more language families?
Just made me curious, because I think that would be extreme! Mezzofonti's 29 languages came from 4 language families (Indo-European, Uralic, AfroAsiatic, Sino- Tibetan), Harold Williams' 58 languages from 9 (Indo-European, Austronesian, Uralic, Altaic, AfroAsiatic, Sino-Tibetan, Niger-Congo, Basque, Kartvelian) and Ziad Fazah's 59 languages from 8 (Indo-European, Austronesian, Uralic, Altaic, AfroAsiatic, Sino-Tibetan, Niger-Congo, Austro-Asiatic). 1 person has 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 41 22 September 2010 at 12:09pm | IP Logged | ||
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Well, Leoshu505000 might be a candidate
But Mezzofanti also learned at last one Northamerican language (called something like 'Floridan') so there must be at least five families on his account 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| justberta Diglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5583 days ago 140 posts - 170 votes Speaks: English, Norwegian* Studies: Indonesian, German, Spanish, Russian | Message 3 of 41 22 September 2010 at 6:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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Germanic (Norwegian, English, German) Romance (Spanish) Austronesian (Indonesian)
Just started another language family so not yet.. Iversen: Are you fluent in Sweedish and becoming fluent in Norwegian? How would you define this fluency? As these languages are extremely mutually intelligible. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5379 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 4 of 41 22 September 2010 at 6:33pm | IP Logged | ||
It was Californian, and there was also Algonquin. Of course, we are allowed to doubt that, especially considering he never left Italy and recordings didn't exist. Just as it would be wise to question Ziad Fazah's achievements (as was successfully done here). Edited by Arekkusu on 22 September 2010 at 6:57pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Liface Triglot Senior Member United States youtube.com/user/Lif Joined 5856 days ago 150 posts - 237 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish Studies: Dutch, French | Message 5 of 41 22 September 2010 at 10:57pm | IP Logged | ||
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That Ziad Fazah video is ridiculous. What a blowhard. Nothing irks me more than people claiming to speak languages and then failing. Edited by Liface on 22 September 2010 at 10:58pm 1 person has 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 6 of 41 22 September 2010 at 11:34pm | IP Logged | ||
I would say that on the passive side I'm fluent in both Norwegian and Swedish, - I can understand practically everything I hear or read in those two languages. But even with such close relatives it takes some study time to become active in a language, otherwise you just adopt some aspects of the sound of the language and a few random words, and that's not true fluency in a language. I have actually done my best to learn written and Spoken Swedish, but for Norwegian I still rely on knowing something about the writing (bokmål), whereas I don't claim to speak any dialect of Norwegian. Though I might try to learn it in order to be able to make a video at Youtube... And as everybody can see I'm dedicated to the Indeoeuropean language group, with Bahasa I & M (and some aspects of Tagalog) as the only exception. Edited by Iversen on 22 September 2010 at 11:39pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| justberta Diglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5583 days ago 140 posts - 170 votes Speaks: English, Norwegian* Studies: Indonesian, German, Spanish, Russian | Message 7 of 41 23 September 2010 at 1:05am | IP Logged | ||
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Ups I just realized you are talking about the general language families as opposed to the
sub groups. In that case I only speak two language families. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| celticrover Diglot Newbie Ireland Joined 5204 days ago 10 posts - 20 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, French, Russian | Message 8 of 41 24 September 2010 at 2:23am | IP Logged | ||
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I don't think Ziad Fazah speaks more than three or four languages fluently, let alone languages from four different families.
As for laoshu, he seems to have a basic / intermediate knowledge of many languages but only speaks his native language (English) fluently. 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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