Before I called Dr. Arguelles on the telephone we exchanged a few emails. Making sure that I knew how to pronounce his last name correctly was one of my chief priorities. In one of the emails I mentioned that I had a background in Latin languages and gave him a link to this website. That [...]
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Some of you may recall that I’ve written briefly about Dr. Alexander Arguelles before in my post about modern polyglots and in my post about his six languages that educated people should strive to learn. If you participate in the forums at www.how-to-learn-any-language.com or if you had the chance to learn from him in Korea, [...]
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What is the most difficult language to learn? is probably the most common question asked by aspiring polyglots. When you ask an academic this question you are likely to be told in return: It depends on what you mean by difficult (i.e. most difficult grammar, most difficult writing system, most difficult pronunciation, etc.) or It [...]
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For the past six months or so I have been making a feeble attempt at learning Mandarin Chinese. As with any language learning, my studies have brought me to learn about Chinese history and culture and to interact with some wonderful Chinese people from all over the Giant of the Far East. Although my learning [...]
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About this time last month I wrote a short post about Jorge Fernandez Gates, a young Peruvian who has studied or mastered eleven languages. Since then I’ve heard him criticized for something that I don’t think is entirely worthy of reproach: most of his languages are from the same language family as his own native [...]
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