Carlos Amaral Freire is a Brazilian scholar,

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Linguis ...

and

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. He has mastered more than 30 languages in the sense that he has the theoretical and practical knowledge that makes it possible for him to communicate in them, but he can make translations, read, and write in others. He has studied more than a hundred twenty languages, but he has half-forgotten many of them, which would need a little study to come back in conversation skills. He still studies two new languages each year. Freire's ''Babel de Poemas'' is a polylingual

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with translations of poems from 60 languages.

Publications

Babel de Poemas
() * Los fonemas oclusivos y africados del aymara y del georgiano

References

Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Brazilian translators Translators to Portuguese Greek–Portuguese translators Spanish–Portuguese translators German–Portuguese translators Translators from Georgian Arabic–Portuguese translators Italian–Portuguese translators English–Portuguese translators French–Portuguese translators Russian–Portuguese translators Translators from Chinese {{brazil-translator-stub