Powell Alexander Janulus (born 1939) is a Canadian polyglot who lives in White Rock, British Columbia, and entered the Guinness World Records in 1985 for fluency in 42 languages.
[1] To qualify, he had to pass a two-hour conversational fluency test with a native speaker of each of the 42 languages he spoke at that time.
[citation needed] In 1985, Janulus entered into the Guinness World Records for spoken fluency in 42 languages.
To qualify, he took a two-hour conversational fluency test with a native speaker of each language he spoke at that time.
He said that the Canadian actor John Candy hired him to help him speak Punjabi for the 1989 film Who's Harry Crumb?.