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Sergey starostin, a Russian linguist | ||
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| dragonfly Triglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 6478 days ago 204 posts - 233 votes  Speaks: Russian*, EnglishC2, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, Mandarin | Message 1 of 4 30 July 2010 at 10:21pm | IP Logged |
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You can read some information about him here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Starostin
In his interview on Russian TV he said he could speak 15 languages and read 40. He said he had studied most of his languages at school. At that time there were few resourses available in the USSR, so he just started with a grammar book. This interview (in Russian) can be watched here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fqt_5wqr4Bs 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6908 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 4 31 July 2010 at 1:10am | IP Logged |
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Thanks for posting this! I wonder if I can understand anything in the video...
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| TixhiiDon Tetraglot Senior Member Japan Joined 5463 days ago 772 posts - 1474 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese, German, Russian Studies: Georgian | Message 3 of 4 31 July 2010 at 1:37am | IP Logged |
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His son George is also a linguist and on the side he has an extensive music review site
that can be found here http://starling.rinet.ru/music/index.htm I don't think he updates the review site much any more but for music lovers it is a fantastic resource, and one can only be in awe of his extraordinary grasp of the English language. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7155 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 4 of 4 02 August 2010 at 4:41am | IP Logged |
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I've been more interested in the late Mr. Starostin's work on long-range etymology with other linguists for some time now, but it's nice to see him speak about something other than etymology.
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