{"id":5553,"date":"2015-11-02T09:18:08","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T09:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eltweekly.com\/?p=5553"},"modified":"2015-11-02T09:18:08","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T09:18:08","slug":"how-to-learn-30-languages-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eltweekly.humbeestudio.xyz\/?p=5553","title":{"rendered":"How to learn 30 languages (BBC)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">[ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 19 | November 2<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">, 2015 | ISSN 0975-3036]<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>David Robson says,\u00a0&#8220;Out on a sunny Berlin balcony, Tim Keeley and Daniel Krasa are firing words like bullets at each other. First German, then Hindi, Nepali, Polish, Croatian, Mandarin and Thai \u2013 they\u2019ve barely spoken one language before the conversation seamlessly melds into another. Together, they pass through about 20 different languages or so in total.<\/p>\n<p>Back inside, I find small groups exchanging tongue twisters. Others are gathering in threes, preparing for a rapid-fire game that involves interpreting two different languages simultaneously. It looks like the perfect recipe for a headache, but they are nonchalant. \u201cIt\u2019s quite a common situation for us,\u201d a woman called Alisa tells me.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It can be difficult enough to learn one foreign tongue. Yet I\u2019m here in Berlin for the <a href=\"http:\/\/polyglotberlin.com\/\">Polyglot Gathering,<\/a> a meeting of 350 or so people who speak multiple languages\u00a0\u2013 some as diverse as Manx, Klingon and Saami, the language of reindeer herders in Scandinavia. <!--more-->Indeed, a surprising proportion of them are \u201chyperglots\u201d, like Keeley and Krasa, who can speak at least 10 languages. One of the most proficient linguists I meet here, Richard Simcott, leads a team of polyglots at a company called eModeration \u2013 and he uses about 30 languages himself&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/story\/20150528-how-to-learn-30-languages\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read full article<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 19 | November 2, 2015 | ISSN 0975-3036] David Robson says,\u00a0&#8220;Out on a sunny Berlin balcony, Tim Keeley and Daniel Krasa are firing words like bullets at each other. 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