As the saying goes, "envy is the green-eyed monster," and it just bit me in the ass a little. Well, look at this guy's language competency and tell me you're not the slightest bit envious. Well, I do.. just a teeny weeny bit. Granted that his field of expertise requires him to know all these languages, and half of them are practically dead languages, but it is still fucking impressive. For me, I'm still struggling with my Malay... just kiddin'.
Language competence
Reading and speaking, fluently or near fluently: Russian (mother tongue), English, French, German, Italian, Persian.
Reading, fluently or near fluently (modern languages): Spanish, Turkish, East Armenian.
Also completed coursework in Latin, Homeric and Classical Greek, Vedic and Classical Sanskrit, Old Church Slavonc, Old Russian, Old Norse, Lithuanian, Avestan, Old Persian, Sogdian, Middle Persian, Parthian, Baluchi, Wakhi, Hittite, Luwian, Lycian, Lydian, Carian, Classical Armenian, Albanian, Arabic, Akkadian, Elamite, Hurrian, Urartian.
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