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A TV interview with Carlos Freire, the man who knows over a 100 languages.
The translation of the interview:

...the russian dictator Stalin.
"I've studied over a 100 languages and one of the hardest is Georgian."
In his book Poems of Babel prof. Freire translated 60 poems from different languages to Portuguese. Some languages were translated for the very first time to Portuguese as the impenetrable Quechua, the bolivian indians language.
Prof. Freire has studied languages for 40 years. He researches every year at least two new languages. He untagles grammar, vocabulary, syntax and the phonology of every single language.
At his 74 years old and at the peak of his erudition, he says that one of the most interesting languages is Esperanto, which was created by an intellectual.
"By the linguistic point of view, Esperanto is perfection. The main reason it didn't became an international language is that it's not interesting, politically speaking, to others countries that use English as their predominant international language."
But what really amazes him is the Chinese language.
"It has music, literally! Why? Because Chinese is a tonal language. It has 4 musical tones. An ideogram represents an entire word. You have to study Chinese as a whole. You need to know all of the subjects to really know the language."