www.babelnomore.com Michael Erard, researching his study of polyglots, films Alexander Arguelles describing his daily language-learning regimen.
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A Polyglot’s Daily Linguistic Workout
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As much as his achievement in linguistic ability amazes me, he seems rushed. I keep on wondering if he manages to absorb the beauty and culture of all the languages he knows, I mean, reading books as he does stuck me as incredibly odd. It’s all fragmented, lacking the patience and dedication needed to appreciate the narrative, only the grammar! I could never push myself to that level and then waste my newfound skill by bypassing the excitement of reading epics in their original language.
just out of curiosity, do you ever go to work, or eat, or spend time with your family, or ya know relax?
Either he is a slave to his language ability, or there is nothing he would rather be doing. Either way, job well done.
Does this guy eat at all?
This guy is an alien. I love him.
That is his job! lol
This comment says everything about you and NOTHING about Profasar A.
Just out of curiosity, don’t you have to work?
give him time… people like this are serious knowledge junkies, I wouldnt be suprised if he got tired of mastering languages to just wake up and start studying geneolgy or something.
pains me to say it, in reference to a man with remarkable dedication, but I agree with you sir. This guy is more of a linguistician than a linguist, I would have loved to have seen him interacting with people of every nationality in these languages he speaks, interacting, sharing moments. But this seems to be a very cold, clinical approach to learning something so versatile and diverse as a language. I don’t think his modus operandi is even that efficient!
Good work man. I´m also studying foreign languages. Keep up the good work.
If this man had studied medicine instead, we’d have already a cure for cancer and HIV.
as a linguist I find this extremely sad! A language is a living organism revealed by human beeings, not a bureaucratic exercitium … language is life! You should shoot people out in the real world interacting with people, human beings uttering sounds to each other, just people speaking and communicating! The nature of the words poly glottis speaks for itselves. It’s all about sounds, life and interaction with people. For ages languages kept on vanishing in offices……. please think about t