Man Performs a Spoken Paragraph Using 46 Different Languages From Around the World

Nicola Foti, a self described “language geek”, amazingly recited a paragraph about smiling, line by line, in 46 different languages. Forti worked for over two months with dozens of people from around the world in order to master the sound, accent and feel of each language.

Languages spoken in order: English, Arabic, Bahasa, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Farsi, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Igbo, Irish, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Louisiana Creole, Macedonian, Malay, Mandarin Chinese, Maori, Nahuatl, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Urdu, Vietnamese, Xhosa, American Sign Language

In 2010, Forti performed 35 different accents from around the world, spoken in English.

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