Professor Bai Gang of Fudan University, the person who has the most knowledge of languages in China, was born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang from 65438 to 0977. Secretary-General, Research Center of Intellectual History, Fudan University. A famous language expert. Its modern languages include English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian and Greek. He studied and mastered dozens of classical languages of major world civilizations, such as Hittite, ancient Greek, Latin, Vedic, Sanskrit, Pali, Avist, ancient Persian, ancient Armenian, Gothic, ancient Irish, Slavic of the ancient church, Lithuanian, Turkic, Akkadian, Hebrew of the Bible, Aramaic, Phoenician and Uzbek. He is familiar with all the classical languages in Europe, and his language empire spans the whole Eurasia.

According to the authoritative scientific magazine "New Scientist", language is considered as a part of human unique cognitive talent. Scientists agree that language ability is related to heredity. The evidence that multilingual talent can be inherited in families supports the view that linguistic talent can be inherited. But until today, scientists still don't know how many languages a person can master at most. 1996, DickHudson, a retired professor of linguistics at London College, posted on the most popular online forum for linguists, asking who has the most languages. In later posts, Hudson called those who knew six or more languages "linguistic geniuses". He chose "6" because he knew that many people in the world could speak five languages. He listed some famous people who knew many languages. For example, in the18th century, Italian cardinal GiuseppeMezzofanti could speak 72 languages, and he could speak 39 of them fluently. Emile cribb, a German giant who worked as an interpreter for the German ambassador to China, can speak 60 languages fluently. He received a letter from Yi Meier in June, 5438+October, 2003. The sender's name was N, and N wrote in the letter: N's grandfather can speak at least 15 languages. Every three or four generations, there will be a child with a talent for learning multiple languages in N families. N's grandfather once told N that his great-grandfather and his great-grandfather could speak almost 100 languages.