University student that speaks 19 languages

A student has learned to speak in 19 languages after dedicating more than 18,000 over the last decade to his love of linguistics.

Georges Awaad’s teenage hobby has seen him become fluent in NINE languages and able to chat conversationally in 10 others.

The native French speaker used a combination of online resources and school classes to become fluent in English, Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, German, Japanese, Italian and Portuguese.

Georges, 20, can also speak Russian, Cantonese, Korean, Esperanto, Romanian, Swedish, Dutch, Hebrew, Georgian and Armenian at a conversational level.