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Video of The World's Greatest Polyglot: Multilingual
I'm sure many of you would like to see this. It's not a show in English, but probably some of you will recognize your native languages and may wish to comment.
Type in "Ziad Fazah" on youtube, or type the address below http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy8FXzkwZhE
It seems to me that he wasn't able to understand a simple sentence in Russian. Am I wrong about that?
He's a complete fraud! You can tell from the guests's face that they are not quite convinced by the guy's "translation" of what they said. But it's the Farsi speaker who really speak out: "He managed to read 5% of what represents 100% of the Farsi language", and after his faux translation: "Sorry, that's not what I asked".
And you're correct, he wasn't able to respond at all to the Russian speaker.
I know it's a tough thing to interpret on the spot, but I can't believe he knows Russian at all OR else he was having trouble hearing the speakers and started guessing.
He's certainly not "fluent" in any of the languages, maybe he knows the basics but not enough to put it on his "list". He should definately knwo simple frases like "what day is it" in russian.
Even so, it would not be that hard to speak 20-30 languages to that "reasonable' level, you just need to be unemployed.
Any subtitles please? Through wild guess, I can only tell that he didn't seem to have answered (or known) "the (most obvious/only) man-made construction works that can be seen from the moon" in Mandarin, which, as some of you should know, is the Great Wall. I DIDN'T hear anything like "chang2 cheng2". Or was I "hard" of hearing?
Supplement: "The only"
I don't know Portuguese, but ... hm, it seems like the people and the Chinese man are startled.
Xie,
the man didn't answer the question, he translated it. Well, actually he pretended to. His translation: "Where did you learn the knowledge (sic) of the Chinese language, and also, where did you absorb (sic) it with ease?" PS: the show is in Spanish not in Portuguese ;-)
This Peruvian boy does a better job then that PHONEY old man:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYhsmgEv-yo
Xie,
The show was in Spanish. The first lady spoke Finnish. The second man said his language was Farsi (Persian/Iranian), the third was Russian, the fourth, Mandarin and the last one was, hmmm, not sure, probably Greek, if I had to bet. I'm not sure how to put subtitles on a youtube video. Thanks for your take on the Mandarin.
I just saw Yop's message. Xie probably thought it was Portuguese because ZF lives in Brazil.
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