World's Greatest Polyglot

موضوع: World's Greatest Polyglot الأحد فبراير 21, 2010 11:53 am

?What’s a Polyglot

Polyglot means "many tongues" but refers usually to someone who is proficient in several languages. Unlike a bilingual person who can speak two languages fluently, a polyglot is someone who speaks 3 or more languages fluently, a person who can speak six or more languages fluently is known as a hyperpolyglot

World's Greatest Polyglot Linguist

The world's current best linguist is reported to be Ziad Youssef Fazah, a Lebanese man who lives in Brazil, 53 years old, born in June 10, 1954 in Liberia, he is known worldwide as the world's most accomplished polyglot

Ziad Fazah is said that he speaks, reads and understands more than 60 languages, most of them he learned before he was 20. He has been successfully interviewed on TV by speakers of languages such as Mongolian and Hungarian.Unlike many famous people, it's rarely when you hear something about him; some people even doubt his existence. Ziad Fazah has got an amazing capability to memorize words, which made him learn languages in no time

Greatest Polyglot in History

But the greatest polyglot in history may have been cardinal Giuseppe Gaspardo Mezzofanti (1774-1849), who is reported to have spoken up to a 78 languages fluently

Other names are: Kenneth Hale, (1934?-2001), a linguistics professor

Rolf Theil Endresen, Norwegian (linguistics professor (+ 50 languages

Georges Dumézil (1898-1986), famous (French philologist, (40 languages

William James Sidis (1898-1944), the famous child prodigy (knew 40 languages), and excelled not only in languages but in math, he was a math professor at the university at the age of 16

Another famous figure who speaks a considerable number of languages is Pope Benedict XVI, current head of the Roman Catholic Church, speaks at least ten

» The Greatest Pain in Life