Mexxofanti’s gift : the search for the world’s most extraordinary language learners
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Multilingualism is on the rise in the coming decades, as many as two billion people will learn English as a second language. The next stage up from multilingualism is the domain of the hyperpolyglot' or superlearner': someone who claims to know at least six languages. But what does it mean to know' a language? Can a person claim to speak a language fluently if it isn't their mother tongue?What role does culture play in learning languages? In this accessible and enthralling book, Michael Erard discusses the upper limits of the brain's capacity to learn languages and sheds light on the hy.
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Data sheet
- Name of the Author
- Erard
Michael - Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780715647028
- Release date
- 2013
