Magic is wonderful. When I was a child and lost a tooth, the Tooth Fairy would magically leave a 25¢ coin underneath my pillow while I slept; Santa Clause would bring me presents on Christmas Eve night; early on Easter Sunday morning, the Easter Bunny would hide chocolate eggs and a basket of goodies for [...]
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About a year ago I began to become acquainted with the online language community. Since that time I have found no hyperpolyglot more inspiring or controversial than Ziad Youssef Fazah. Over the past twenty years, he has been featured many times showcasing his talents on television programs in several European and South American countries including [...]
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Just last month I published a post about the languages with the biggest number of speakers which then lead me to write another post about which languages were worth learning, since learning even the top five would prove quite difficult due to their lack of similarities. Bill Chapman commented on the latter post that the [...]
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I once read about a Hungarian woman who worked as an interpreter during the Cold War. She knew sixteen languages, including Russian and Chinese, most of which she taught herself reading novels and watching movies in those languages. This woman obviously had a great interest in learning languages and was born with or developed a [...]
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Language barriers are all too familiar to those of us who enjoy learning foreign languages. At first they loom above us like mountains, daring us to break through so that we can make new friends, go to new places, read new books or maybe even get a better job. At first the barrier seems impenetrable [...]
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