Native name Ιωάννης Οικονόμου Spouse Tomek | Occupation Translator Education Columbia University | |
Ioannis ikonomou el hombre que habla fluidamente 32 idiomas
Ioannis Ikonomou (Greek: Ιωάννης Οικονόμου) is a Greek translator who has been working for the European Commission in Brussels since 2002. Considered a notable contemporary example of a polyglot, he knows 32 living languages including Greek, English, German, Italian, Spanish, French, Finnish, Danish, Russian, East African Swahili, Hebrew, Arabic, Mandarin and Bengali, and reportedly as many as 47 languages including dead languages like Old Church Slavic. He speaks 21 out of 24 official EU languages.
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Education
He studied linguistics at the University of Thessaloniki before pursuing an MA in Middle Eastern languages and cultures at Columbia University in the United States. He continued with a PhD in Indo-European linguistics at Harvard University.
Personal life
He is married to Tomek, who is Polish.
