Talk:Carlos do Amaral Freire

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The source for data about Carlos do Amaral Freire seems to be mostly one single interview which has been published on several web sites in different forms. Additional information from other sources would be good.

The author of the article got some things wrong from the interview. He hasn't forgotten them. All hyperpolyglots get rusty in a portion of their languages, that's a universal feature. He said that if he studied them for a couple of days, they would come back. They also aren't fluent in all of them, Mezzofanti had total command over only 60 of the 114 he knew.

201.17.85.187 17:25, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

He used the word "forgotten" himself: "Janer -Quantas línguas já esqueceste? Carlos -É uma boa pergunta... Já esqueci muitas, ou melhor, muitas das línguas que estudei estão bastante desativadas. Contudo, com um pouco de esforço elas poderão ser reativadas novamente." "Já esqueci muitas" means "I have forgotten many of them". If you feel it needs to be mentioned, you can add that he also claims that he thinks that he easily could reactivate them. However, it is still only his own claims. I'd like to see some more third party validation of his knowledge. Mlewan 17:34, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

And the translation for the next sentence, ou melhor, muitas das línguas que estudei estão bastante desativadas goes as better yet (as in: actually), many of the languages I studied are quite deactivated. 201.19.181.38 01:39, 13 August 2006 (UTC)