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A TV interview with Carlos Freire, the man who knows over a 100 languages.
The translation of the interview:

...the russian dictator Stalin.
"I've studied over a 100 languages and one of the hardest is Georgian."
In his book Poems of Babel prof. Freire translated 60 poems from different languages to Portuguese. Some languages were translated for the very first time to Portuguese as the impenetrable Quechua, the bolivian indians language.
Prof. Freire has studied languages for 40 years. He researches every year at least two new languages. He untagles grammar, vocabulary, syntax and the phonology of every single language.
At his 74 years old and at the peak of his erudition, he says that one of the most interesting languages is Esperanto, which was created by an intellectual.
"By the linguistic point of view, Esperanto is perfection. The main reason it didn't became an international language is that it's not interesting, politically speaking, to others countries that use English as their predominant international language."
But what really amazes him is the Chinese language.
"It has music, literally! Why? Because Chinese is a tonal language. It has 4 musical tones. An ideogram represents an entire word. You have to study Chinese as a whole. You need to know all of the subjects to really know the language."

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  • Nossa, inacreditavel!

    gostaria de saber se ele ja estudou sobre o " luxemburgues" é falada apenas por 300.000 pessoas no mundo.

  • Sim. O profº Freire não só estudou o luxemburguês, como que há uma tradução sua desse idioma incluída no "Babel de Poemas".

  • "Das mais de cem linguas que eu estudei realmente é uma das mais difíceis"

    a qual lingua ele referia?

  • O prof. Carlos Freire se refere ao georgiano, idioma falado na Geórgia. Como é dito na reportagem, esta era a língua materna de Josef Stalin.

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  • Acho bem legal este vídeo. O professor Freire é uma inspiração!

  • esse sim é um brasileiro que eu tenho orgulho

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  • Typical brasilians... "Agora o futebol"

  • I'm glad I know English :D

  • agora o futebol...

  • tem doido para tudo!

  • a que se llama poliglota a?? los que fablan mas de 2 lenguas me parece osea si hablo 3 ya son poliglotas q facil deberian llamarse poliglotas alos que hablan mas de 7 idiomas en adelante

  • no se si creer que existen poliglotas ::..ya lo estoy dudando

  • hey, if you just need to go on tv and show a few books... I can speak 120 languages

  • Benleu que non parla pas lo dialecte lemosin, çai que de lai, quo es remirable de coneisser un brave cent lengas dau monde ( pode ser que ele não fala o dialeto Limousin, mas é formidavel, é otimo para falar cem linguas).

    Poate fi ca nu stie dialectul Limousin, dar este minunat sa vorbesc o suta de limbi.

    Je suis épâté.

  • "Agora o futebol" ahuahuahauhau

  • e agora o futebol...

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