Polyglots?

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How Many Extra (ie Not Including Your First Language) Languages Can You Speak?

One.
10
23%
Two.
14
33%
Three.
12
28%
Four.
1
2%
Five.
2
5%
More than five.
4
9%
 
Total votes: 43
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Re: Polyglots?

Post by DRSB » Sat Sep 18, 2010 7:24 am

On "chunking": http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/19/magaz ... f=magazine
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Re: Polyglots?

Post by JimC » Sat Sep 18, 2010 7:32 am

A little schoolboy French and Latin is all...
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Re: Polyglots?

Post by mistermack » Sat Sep 18, 2010 11:32 am

JimC wrote:A little schoolboy French and Latin is all...
French and Latin, a waste of my precious time when I was young.

Becoming bilingual or multilingual never helped me much. But my life definitely improved when I became cunnilingual.
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