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| Dave M Groupie United States bfmfightwear.com Joined 6708 days ago 56 posts - 63 votes  | Message 249 of 377 02 March 2007 at 7:01am | IP Logged | ||
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I am setting up 2 websites right now. One for my martial arts business and one for diabetes. I am still going to do this one but it may take longert han I thought. Ziad is teaching up a storm right now - mostly english and french but his contact info is here and he welcomes calls. He recently returned from Minas Gerais where he gave a lecture tour
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| asad100101 Diglot Senior Member Pakistan languagel.blogspot.c Joined 6237 days ago 118 posts - 137 votes Speaks: Hindi*, English | Message 250 of 377 24 March 2007 at 7:36am | IP Logged | ||
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As a language learner, wading through 32 pages of Ziad's mystery has been no use of me when we can not get him to write a white paper in order to summarize his language methods. It will take him a handful of webpages for it to be published online on a free hosting website on the internet along with his recent photos. All I had read was speculation and conjecture about his existence which was no use for me. I am a new user to this forum. I came to know about him two years ago. I checked up on him. There was no conceret information on him. Today I again searched on google for any further developments. I was accessed to this web forum but still moderators who run this forum have been unable to set up a website.
I sent him an email, lets see if he can reply me back. Kind Wishes, Asad Khan From Karachi, Pakistan 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| asad100101 Diglot Senior Member Pakistan languagel.blogspot.c Joined 6237 days ago 118 posts - 137 votes Speaks: Hindi*, English | Message 251 of 377 24 March 2007 at 7:45am | IP Logged | ||
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Dave_M,
If I want to call him on his cell phone no , what country code should I dial? How did you call him from usa? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| translator2 Senior Member United States Joined 6701 days ago 848 posts - 1862 votes Speaks: English* | Message 252 of 377 25 March 2007 at 12:02pm | IP Logged | ||
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This post from another thread. Can anyone verify the dialect info in this article about Fazah:
I did a search on Google for Tucurum and all I found was that it was a city in Brazil. (link below). Funny how an obscure dialect in Ethiopia would have the same name as a city in the country where he lives. According to wikipedia, Hazaras refers to the group of people who speak the Hazaragi dialect. You would think he would at least know the name of the language he reportedly speaks well enough to understand this man's story. Hazaragi dialect Tucurum, Brazil
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| Talairan Tetraglot Senior Member Spain Joined 6374 days ago 194 posts - 258 votes Speaks: Afrikaans, English*, Gypsy/Romani, Dutch Studies: Spanish, Flemish, Galician, Aramaic | Message 253 of 377 27 March 2007 at 12:09pm | IP Logged | ||
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A quick search of Ethnologue here and here reveals no such language or dialect. I have found the Ethnologue to be a very good source for obscure languages, but perhaps they have missed this one, although I wouldn't bet on it.
As an aside, I wonder how "recently" the sentence "Recently he was called to interpret for another illegal alien who came from Eritrea, in northern Ethiopia." refers to, as Eritrea has been a separate country since 1993 having ended its war with Ethiopia in 1991. Ever the sceptic, Tal Edited by Talairan on 27 March 2007 at 12:28pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Vlad Trilingual Super Polyglot Senior Member Czechoslovakia foreverastudent.com Joined 6366 days ago 443 posts - 576 votes 2 sounds Speaks: Czech*, Slovak*, Hungarian*, Mandarin, EnglishC2, GermanC2, ItalianC1, Spanish, Russian, Polish, Serbian, French Studies: Persian, Taiwanese, Romanian, Portuguese | Message 254 of 377 27 March 2007 at 2:32pm | IP Logged | ||
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Talairan,
I noticed that too, but if you look at the top of the page, it says : 'This Reuters wire article appeared in the SF Chronicle sometime in the early '90s'. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Jacareh Pentaglot Newbie Brazil Joined 6231 days ago 9 posts - 9 votes 3 sounds Speaks: Portuguese*, English, Spanish, French, Italian Studies: German, Russian, Armenian | Message 255 of 377 30 March 2007 at 8:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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The Hazaras are an Afghan minority who claim descent from Genghis Khan and the Mongol invaders of past centuries. In any case, they do generally have East Asian physical features, unlike most other Afghans, and they are mostly Shi'a Muslims, which also separates them from the majority of their compatriots, who are Sunnis. But the most relevant fact from the perspective of this forum is that they speak a dialect of Dari, itself essentially the same language as Farsi. Therefore, for a fluent speaker of Farsi, which Mr. Fazah allegedly is, communicating with a Hazara would pose only minor difficulties.
Also, it has been stated here that Farsi and Persian are Semitic languages. In reality Farsi and Persian are two names for one Indo-European language of the Indo-Iranian branch, the official language of Iran. Dari (sometimes called Dari Persian) is the very similar Afghan version of the same. Pashto is the other official language of Afghanistan, and also an Iranian language, but is not intelligible with Farsi. Tadjik, spoken in Tadjikistan, is essentially Dari written in the Cyrillic alphabet, rather than the modified version of the Arabic alphabet used for Iranian languages elsewhere. Edited by Jacareh on 30 March 2007 at 8:40pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Dave M Groupie United States bfmfightwear.com Joined 6708 days ago 56 posts - 63 votes | Message 256 of 377 30 March 2007 at 8:31pm | IP Logged | ||
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That is what Ziad told me.
He spoke to him in Persian which is one of his strongest languages and the man in question was from the Ethiopian region and they conversed in Farsi where he requested political asylum in Rio. In a funny twist the man went on to commit a ton of crimes in Rio and was picked up by the police a second time - he was essentially a lunatic. Mystery solved. I also put Ziads contact info on the thread - call him. Im working on a web project but it will take time as its 3rd in line from the current 2 Im working on. I am working with him in Hindi right now and in a few weeks were moving to French Arabic. ANY ANY ANY Hindi/Urdu speakers please for gods sake e mail me at dmaswary@hotmail.com Mera pura nam Dave Maswary hain aur mai ab vidyarthi hindustani hai aur mai tora tora bolta hain lekin mai log bolna cahta hai bahut shukriya 1 person has voted this message useful |
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