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The Mystery of People Who Speak Dozens of Languages

In a world which often dismisses multilingualism, there’s hope yet! ‘The Mystery of People Who Speak Dozens of Languages’ from The New Yorker highlights the ‘thriving online co...

READ MORE | 12 Jan 2021

The Art of Mastering Many Tongues

Excellent book review in the New York Times of Babel No More, The Search for the World’s Most Extraordinary Language Learners by Michael Erard. As well as looking at some of the secrets of langu...

READ MORE | 9 Mar 2012

How do you become fluent in 11 languages?

Inspirational Friday fun: video on the BBC web site of twenty-year-old Alex Rawlings, the winnner of a national competition to find the UK's most multi-lingual student, explaining in 11 differen...

READ MORE | 24 Feb 2012