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| seldnar Senior Member United States Joined 6913 days ago 189 posts - 287 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, French, Greek | Message 65 of 82 13 May 2011 at 11:07am | IP Logged | ||
Here's an interesting discussion of Walowitz's Mandrin abilities along with those of his student. sheldons-chinese">Sheldon Speaks Chinese 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Gorgoll2 Senior Member Brazil veritassword.blogspo Joined 4927 days ago 159 posts - 192 votes Speaks: Portuguese* | Message 66 of 82 14 August 2011 at 1:56am | IP Logged | ||
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Lemuel Gulliver from Gulliver´s Travels speaks English, German, Dutch, Latin, French,
Spanish, Italian and Mediterranean Lingua Franca - And understood Portuguese. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Journeyer Triglot Senior Member United States tristan85.blogspot.c Joined 6649 days ago 946 posts - 1110 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German Studies: Sign Language | Message 67 of 82 14 August 2011 at 11:23am | IP Logged | ||
Not to mention the languages he learned in his travels; Swift didn't have his characters from the exotic lands speak English, which I really enjoyed. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Jake Day Newbie United States Joined 4810 days ago 30 posts - 35 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 68 of 82 16 August 2011 at 3:04am | IP Logged | ||
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Two guys I remember from different series;
1) Dr. Daniel Jackson from the Stargate franchise. I recall in one episode of the TV show that he claimed to speak 27 or 29 different languages, although he never mentioned which ones. I do recall hearing a conversation partially in German in that same episode. 2) John Doe from the short-lived FOX series John Doe. I recall the opening of the first episode had him speaking Khmer with a bunch of fishermen. According to the storyline, he "knew everything"--this presumably included several languages. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Ikarias Triglot Newbie Spain multilinguae.wordpreRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5812 days ago 29 posts - 36 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2, GermanB1 Studies: ItalianA2, DutchA2, FrenchA2, Mandarin | Message 69 of 82 28 September 2011 at 1:15pm | IP Logged | ||
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What about Salvatore, from "Il nome della rosa"? He speaks and mixes Latin, German, French, Italian, English and Spanish (I think).
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| William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6053 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French | Message 70 of 82 10 October 2011 at 6:53pm | IP Logged | ||
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Pascali in the novel Pascali's Island, which is set on an island in the late Ottoman Empire. He is fluent in English, Turkish, Greek and French, and may know Latin and other languages as well.
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| Journeyer Triglot Senior Member United States tristan85.blogspot.c Joined 6649 days ago 946 posts - 1110 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German Studies: Sign Language | Message 71 of 82 30 June 2012 at 11:27pm | IP Logged | ||
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Dusting off this thread a bit, I just finished reading a "Da Vinci Code" rip-off called "The Atlantis Code" by someone named Charles Brokaw.
The book was ho-hum, but exciting enough to keep me engaged. However, the kicker for me was that the protagonist, a Prof. Lourds, is a linguist from Harvard who specializes in ancient languages, but for whom, as mentioned in the book, has seldom visited a land where he couldn't already communicate. In the book he uses English, Arabic, Italian, Russian, Yoruba, French (I think), Ge'ez, Coptic (I think as well), German, Cherokee (or at least shows a knowledge of it) and learns to read inscriptions in the Atlantean language, the proto pre-Tower of Babel language, in around a month's time. That job would be so awesome. I can't say I'd recommend the book, but it at least did re-awaken my desire to look at ancient languages, namely Old English, Akkadian, Coptic, Aramaic, Middle Egyptian, and maybe some Latin. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6378 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 72 of 82 01 July 2012 at 1:03am | IP Logged | ||
One of my favourite moments of the whole series was when Ron imitated it. I'm not so sure about Crouch's actual skills though. Our source of this info is what Percy and Bagman say. It's remarkable how little attention is given to language learning in the books. They could have magical means to learn them but they don't >_< JKR isn't even quite monolingual; she used to live in Portugal and she famously based many incantations on Latin. Is it an exception similar to not being to produce food out of nothing? 1 person has voted this message useful |
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