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Can you teach a parrot to speak English fluently?

I really want a parrot and I heard African Greys are the best talkers, so I did more research on them and decided a Grey would be a good fit for me. But I was wondering if I would be able to teach him the whole English language so he'd understand it as well as me. Understand not mimick.
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mincode said:
The sad answer is that unless you are a groundbreaking amazing parrot speech teacher that can do something that no one else has done. Then yes. Actually there has been a parrot named A.l.e.x that has learned to speak to a limited degree. You can show him stuff and he can say if it is bigger, smaller same and different. Identify 50 different object, some colours and shapes look him up. Btw his name stood for Avian Language Experiment shortened to A.l.e.x. However your parrot could probably learn to understand commands and to a limited degree understand you. However you could probably not teach it to speak english just mimic it.
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