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Powell Janulus
Powell Alexander Janulus (born 1939) is a Canadian polyglot who was entered into the Guinness World Records in 1985 for fluency in 42 languages.〔Boehm, David A.; and Maris Cakars, Cyd Smith, Jim Benagh (1984). ''Guinness Book of World Records 1985.'' Sterling Publishing Co. ISBN 978-0806902647〕 To qualify, he had to pass a two-hour conversational fluency test with a native speaker of each of the 42 different languages he spoke at that time.
==Early life==
Powell Janulus was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He was exposed to many Slavic languages as a child. His Polish mother spoke six languages while his Lithuanian father spoke at least four. He could speak 13 languages fluently at the age of 18. He attended Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia where he attempted to learn Mandarin. In an interview he states that he struggled with the academic teaching style.〔Nikulicheva, D.B. (2009). ''How to Find your Way to Foreign Languages.'' Flinta. ISBN 978-5976508279〕 He became curious about the process of language learning and in the way that children learn languages so easily.〔Dilts, Robert (1998). ''Modeling with NLP.'' Meta Publications. Capitola, CA. ISBN 978-0916990466〕 He attempted to learn Chinese by having conversations and talking with as many Mandarin speakers as possible.〔Atkinson, Marilyn; and Paul Gossen (2015). ''Velocity Instant Fluency.'' Velocity Learning. ISBN 978-0978375515〕
During his early twenties, he began to develop his methodology for fast language acquisition. In his thirties, he became a court translator and got paid for each language he could translate. He worked to learn two or three languages per year, as each language allowed him to earn more at his job. He was authorized by the Provincial Court of British Columbia, as a court translator in 28 languages. He states that he later became interested in language variations and could quickly learn related languages such as Spanish and Portuguese. In his forties he expanded his repertoire to include less common languages such as Tibetan, Romani (Gypsy), Inuit (Eskimo) and Swahili. Later in life he opened The Geneva Language Institute, a language school in Vancouver.
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