So, It Must Be Nice…

A polyglot is someone who can speak more than one language fluently. A hyperpolyglot is someone who is fluent in more than 6 languages.

Ziad Youssef Fazah is thought to be the world’s living person who can speak the most languages.

Apparently Fazah is able to communicate in 56-60 (depends whether you count dialects as languages).

Born in Liberia, raised in Lebanon and living in Brazil since the ’70’s, Fazah is more fluent in some languages than others, depending on how much he uses them.

Here is a list of the languages he knows:

Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Azeri, Bengali, Bulgarian, Burmese, Cambodian, Cantonese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Dzongkha, English, Fijian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kyrgyz, Lao, Malagasy, Malay, Mandarin, Mongolian, Nepali, Norwegian, Papiamento, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Singapore Colloquial English, Sinhalese, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tajik, Thai, Tibetan, Turkish, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese and Wu.

So what would be great about being a polyglot is that pretty much no matter where you go in the world, you would be able to ask those really, really important questions like, “Where is the bus station?”, “Where are the toilets?”, and “Do you have chocolate?”…

must be nice…

The famous French jeweller, Le Boucheron is celebrating its 150th anniversary by releasing a chocolate-covered gold necklace.

In the shape of a snake, the necklace boasts a 20.08 carat diamond hanging from the extended tongue of the snake.

Is anyone else remembering what it was like to wear those candy necklaces??

After about 2 mins they start to “bleed” their colors all over your neck, I can only imagine what chocolate melting around your neck would be like…

And if you are at a cocktail party and you don’t like the hors d’oeuvres, do you try indiscreetly to lick your collarbone??

must be nice…