Harold Williams

A DigitalNZ Story by Donna Robertson

"Harold Williams spoke 58 languages fluently and many dialects. He was the only man to attend the League of Nations in Geneva and talk with every delegate in his own language; he read the Bible in 26 languages, including Hausa, Zulu, and Swahili. He read grammars all his life as other people read detective stories. " Journalist and linguist, foreign editor of The Times. http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/1966/williams-harold http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Williams_%28linguist%29

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