Ziad Fazah

Male, Person

1954 –

18

Who is Ziad Fazah?

Ziad Youssef Fazah is a Liberian-born Lebanese polyglot. Fazah himself claims to speak 59 languages and maintains that he has proved this in several television shows, where he "successfully" communicated with native speakers of a large number of foreign languages.

The Guinness Book of World Records, up to the 1998 edition, listed Fazah as being able to speak and read 58 languages, citing a live interview in Athens, Greece July 1991.

However, in Viva el lunes, a Chilean TV program featuring Ziad Fazah, he failed to understand beginner-level phrases in Finnish, Russian, Chinese, Persian, Hindi, and Greek, such as the Greek question "Πόσες μέρες θα μείνετε εδώ στη Χιλή;". He also mistook Russian for Croatian upon hearing "Какой сегодня день недели?". Also he failed to understand the Chinese phrase of "在月球上,能夠看到唯一的地球上的人造工程是甚麼".

Fazah claims he can speak, read and understand the following languages:

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Born
Jun 10, 1954
Monrovia

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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