Wordie: Hyperpolyglot: Comments

Comment by Valse, 11 months ago

Sun, 02 Sep 2007 16:31:39 +0000

Hmm, I know of Daniel Tammet and the pope. Over 50...that's downright unfathomable.

Comment by jennarenn, 11 months ago

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:05:24 +0000

Ca va bien, merci.

Comment by oroboros, 11 months ago

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 14:05:46 +0000

So, como se va?

Comment by jennarenn, 11 months ago

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 13:57:55 +0000

Me too! In middle school, a time of many wildly impossible ideas, I decided that I was going to learn sixteen languages. I am sorry to report that I am still working on language number two!

Comment by reesetee, 11 months ago

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 09:28:00 +0000

True, yet I'm still jealous.

Comment by uselessness, 11 months ago

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 09:18:17 +0000

While learning all those languages is certainly no easy task, I'd think keeping them all straight afterward would be a pretty impossible feat in itself. He could know fifty words for hello but probably forget which one is correct for the language he's speaking at the moment. At least, I would.

Comment by reesetee, 11 months ago

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 08:36:39 +0000

I'm jealous.

When I encountered this word...

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 08:31:12 +0000

I learned this one just this week when the Google blog had an article about a guy who was one and speaks over 50-something languages - wow.

A hyperpolyglot is one who can speak six or more languages fluently. The term was coined by the linguist Richard Hudson in 2003 and derives from the word "polyglot", meaning one who can speak multiple languages.
Hyperpolyglot on Wikipedia