How many languages can someone learn?
I mean the number of languages that someone became able to speak well.
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Here are some statistics :
Francisco Valdomiro Lorenz born spoke 189 languages.
- Carlos Amaral, claims to speak 170 languages.
- Ziad Fazah born June 10, 1954, claims to speak 58 languages.
- Cardinal Giuseppe Mezzofanti (1774-1849), Italian ecclesiast, is reported to have spoken thirty-eight languages and fifty dialects fluently.
- Emil Krebs German sinologist (1867-1930). Spoke 68 languages fluently, and understood more than 50 further languages.
- Rafael Cardinal Merry del Val, was said to speak up to 63 languages and dialects.
- Kenneth Hale (1934-2001), MIT linguistics professor (over 50 languages)
- Rolf Theil Endresen, Norwegian linguistics professor (over 50 languages)
- Georg Sauerwein(1831-1904), German linguist (over 50 languages)
- The German Francis Sommer, who died in 1978, was said to be fluent in 94 languages.
- Carlos do Amaral Freire has mastered more than a hundred languages, published translations from 60 languages, but is a fluent speaker of 90. He still studies one or two new languages every two years.
- Hans Conon von der Gabelentz (1807-1874) reportedly was fluent in eighty languages.
- Uku Masing (1909-1985), an Estonian linguist, theologian, ethnologist, and poet who was fluent in approximately 65 languages and translated from 20.
- Istvan Dabi, Hungarian translator, translated from 103 languages
- Sir William Jones (1746-1794), British philologist - reported to speak forty-one languages.
- Robert Stiller - Polish, speaks about 60 languages
- Harold Williams, New Zealand journalist and linguist, spoke over 58 languages.
- Andrzej Gawroski (1885 - 1927) - Polish linguist, professor of Jagiellonian University and Lviv University, could speak and write in 40 languages, understood and could read in about 100.
Source:
http://worldsgreatestpolyglot.com/
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The sky's the limit. It depends on your ability.
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MAY BE 7 OR MORE...
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Depends on people.
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I have no idea about, but I think it is possible to improve the main language we need to learn.
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