About a week ago the Financial Times published an interview that the reporter Ed Hammond conducted about a month ago. In it, Ziad tells interesting stories about his dealings with the CIA, Mossad and the PLO. Here is a link to the article.
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Dr. Carlos do Amaral Freire is quite possibly the greatest linguist in known history. When Ziad Fazah lived in Southern Brazil, he borrowed books from Dr. Freire’s vast personal library. His studies and achievements rival those of the legendary Giuseppe Mezzofanti. His travels, insights and abilities are extraordinary, so much so that I had to [...]
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The politics of languages are rather thorny. The USA, curiously, has no official language even though most families can only speak English one or two generations after immigrating. India has two official languages and recognizes twenty one scheduled languages. China has one official language but over 400 million Chinese people speak at least one of [...]
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Edufire is a website that I found out about only yesterday when a representative from the site made a comment on the About page of this blog. Edufire is a kind of a nexus where language tutors and language learners from all over the world can come together to teach and learn thirty five languages [...]
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I have spoken several times about the US Government’s five point rating of a person’s mastery of a language. Instead of writing more about it in great detail, I thought it would be fun to give examples of what these levels of foreign language mastery sound like. Please understand that this is my own interpretation [...]
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