Ziad Fazah

I’m currently writing a Languages through Music book for Teach Yourself, and as any writer will know, procrastination always feels better when it’s linked to your topic matter.

So! I went down a rabbit hole of polyglot history 😅 🕳 and came across this quite stressful interview of Ziad Fazah on Chilean TV show Viva El Lunes.

Fazah, born 10 June 1954, is a Liberian-born Lebanese polyglot who lives in Brazil. He is the current Guinness World Record holder for the most languages spoken by one person, and these are the languages he claims to speak:

1. Albanian

2. Amharic

3. Arabic

4. Armenian

5. Azerbaijani

6. Bengali

7. Bulgarian

8. Burmese

9. Cantonese

10. Czech

11. Danish

12. Dutch

13. Dzongkha / Bhutanese

14. English

15. Fijian

16. Finnish

17. French

18. German

19. Greek

20. Hebrew

21. Hindi

22. Hungarian

23. Icelandic

24. Indonesian

25. Italian

26. Japanese

27. Khmer

28. Korean

29. Kyrgyz

30. Lao

31. Malagasy

32. Malay

33. Maltese

34. Mandarin

35. Mongolian

36. Nepali

37. Norwegian

38. Pashto

39. Papiamento

40. Persian

41. Polish

42. Portuguese

43. Romanian

44. Russian

45. Samoan

46. Serbo-Croatian

47. Shanghainese (dialect of Wu Chinese)

48. Singlish

49. Sinhala

50. Spanish

51. Standard Tibetan

52. Swahili

53. Swedish

54. Tajik

55. Thai

56. Turkish

57. Urdu

58. Uzbek

59. Vietnamese

It makes my goal of 12 languages seem entirely reasonable!

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