The Man who knows 115 Languages

By Priyesh Rajnikant on February 3, 2025 in Entertainment

Have you ever wondered what would probably be the memorizing capacity of human beings? How many languages can you remember in your entire lifespan?

It would turn out that most people around can speak a maximum of 5-6 languages during their course of life.

But the man you are about to meet is not just an extraordinary human being, but one can regard him as the Epitome of Languages. Meet Dr. Carlos Amaral Freire, who holds the world record for studying languages.

The retired teacher, Carlos Amaral Freire, boasts the world record for learning as many as 115 languages. The previous record was held by Italian Cardinal Giuseppe Mezzofanti (1774-1849), to who was attributed the feat of being able to translate 114 languages.

He lives at his residence in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. In 2009, he published a book entitled “Babel de Idiomas” (“Babel of Languages”), in which he has translated poems from 60 different languages into Portuguese. Portuguese is his native language.

Besides from learning 115 languages Dr. Freire has made remarkable contributions to the field of linguistics (discovering a phonological relationship between Georgian and Aymara being just one of them).

Knowing such a lot of languages is a very rare feat achieved.