Who is the Polyglot That Speaks the Most Languages?

According to Guinness, a retired American military man Gregg M. Cox is able to read and write in 64 languages ​​(14 of them fluently) and 11 dialects.

But there are also extraordinary cases that were not recorded in the book of records. The 82-year-old Carlos Amaral Freire from Santa Catarina has studied 135 languages. “For more than 50 Carlos Amaral Freireyears, I have learned two new ones a year. But I do not have the vanity to be the biggest polyglot in the world, “he says. “Just to talk to my family I need five languages: Basque, Spanish, Italian, Greek and Portuguese.”

Carlos Amaral Freire Who is the Polyglot That Speaks the Most Languages?
Carlos Amaral Freire

He is the author of the book Babel de Poemas, with texts translated from 60 different languages ​​into Portuguese. He recently studied German (spoken in northern Germany) and Sicilian and reviewed five other languages.

Oh, and an extra curiosity: anyone who speaks more than six languages ​​fluently is called a “hyperpolyglot”.

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