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Mezzofanti's Gift: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Lear,
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- Title
- Mezzofanti's Gift: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary
- ISBN
- 9780715645680
- EAN
- 9780715645680
- Publication Year
- 2013
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Mezzofanti's Gift
- Item Height
- 218mm
- Publisher
- Duckworth Overlook
- Item Width
- 146mm
- Item Weight
- 424g
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
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Multilingualism is on the rise in the coming decades, as many as two billion people will learn English as a second language. The next stage up from multilingualism is the domain of the hyperpolyglot or superlearner: someone who claims to know at least six languages. But what does it mean to know a language? Can a person claim to speak a language fluently if it isn't their mother tongue? What role does culture play in learning languages? In this accessible and enthralling book, Michael Erard discusses the upper limits of the brain's capacity to learn languages and sheds light on the hyperpolyglot phenomenon, from the Italian cardinal Giuseppe Mezzofanti, who was said to speak as many as seventy-two languages, to the superlearners of the 21st century. Erard's exploration spans the globe as he travels to meet these living marvels and to investigate those of antiquity, and his discoveries not only illuminate the intellectual potential within all of us, but also indicate how we might begin to unlock it.
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Duckworth Overlook
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9780715645680
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Mezzofanti's Gift
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2013
Number of Pages
320 Pages
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218mm
Item Width
146mm
Item Weight
424g
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