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From the Jan 8, 2005 issue of New Scientist:
How come some people can learn dozens of foreign languages when many of us struggle with just one? Michael Erard investigates
Revealing the talents of the language masters
THE news arrived as an unexpected email. "Sir," it began. "First, let me apologise for bothering you, but I saw an article you wrote and had to write." The writer, N, went on to describe how his grandfather, a Sicilian who had never gone to school, could learn languages with such remarkable ease that by the end of his life he could speak 70 of them, and read and write in 56.
Hampshire people can read the full-text here
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hyperpolyglots, from New Scientist
From the Jan 8, 2005 issue of New Scientist:
How come some people can learn dozens of foreign languages when many of us struggle with just one? Michael Erard investigates
Revealing the talents of the language masters
THE news arrived as an unexpected email. "Sir," it began. "First, let me apologise for bothering you, but I saw an article you wrote and had to write." The writer, N, went on to describe how his grandfather, a Sicilian who had never gone to school, could learn languages with such remarkable ease that by the end of his life he could speak 70 of them, and read and write in 56.
Hampshire people can read the full-text here
- Bilingualism And The Brain
A new study about the relation between the brain and bilinualism, as presented in a Reuters news report:Learning 2nd Language Changes Brain Anatomy - Study Wed 13 October, 2004 19:18 By Patricia Reaney LONDON (Reuters) - Being bilingual produces...
- Chomsky To Speak In Support Of The Endangered Language Fund
Noam Chomsky is giving a lecture in New Haven on November 15th. This is a benefit lecture for the Endangered Language Fund, to raise money for the documentation and revitalization of nearly extinct languages. His talk is entitled "Why Are There So Many...
- Preserving Languages
Fun podcast recently from Science Friday about"a plan to preserve dying languages before they disappear entirely. The National Science Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, and Smithsonian institution are planning approximately $2 million...
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Don't cross the streams: Mark Twain messing around in Nikola Tesla's laboratory in 1894. Twain's fascination with technology lead him to engage in many amazing conversations with the physicist-engineer. The literature and writing covering...