Ziad Fazah
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Ziad Youssef Fazah (born June 10, 1954 in Monrovia, Liberia) is reputed to be the world's most accomplished hyperpolyglot. It is said that he speaks, reads and understands 58 languages, most of which learned before the age of 20. His skills have been successfully tested on TV shows around the world by speakers of such languages as Mongolian, Czech, Korean and Hungarian. Raised in Lebanon, he has lived in Brazil since the 1970s.
The list of languages he speaks (from [1] Ziad Youssef Fazah: Maior Poliglota do Mundo):
Albanian, German, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Azeri, Bengali, Burmese, Bulgarian, Cambodian, Cantonese, Mandarin, Wu, Sinhalese, Singapore Colloquial English, Korean, Danish, Dzongkha, Spanish, Finnish, French, Fijian, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Dutch, Hungarian, Indonesian, English, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Swahili, Lao, Malay, Malagasy, Mongolian, Nepali, Norwegian, Papiamento, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Pashto, Kyrgyz, Romanian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Swedish, Tajik, Thai, Czech, Tibetan, Turkish, Urdu, Uzbek and Vietnamese.
[edit] External links
- WorId's Greatest Living Polyglot. Spidra's Vortex. Retrieved on March 07, 2006.
- Ziad Youssef Fazah: Maior Poliglota do Mundo. Retrieved on January 08, 2007.
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