The Polyglot: a Collection of Many Languages, Nine Thousand in General Use, Or Most Custom Words
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Page : 590 pages
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Release : 1841
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Page : 590 pages
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Author : Vanwyn
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Page : 407 pages
File Size : 49,42 MB
Release : 1841
Category : Languages, Modern
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Author : Vanwyn (Capt.-Paym. in H. P.)
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Release : 1841
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Author : Van Wyn (capitaine.)
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Page : 407 pages
File Size : 23,58 MB
Release : 1841
Category : Languages, Modern
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Author : Vanwyn
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File Size : 35,19 MB
Release : 1842*
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Author : Vanwyn
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File Size : 13,89 MB
Release : 1841
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Page : 890 pages
File Size : 49,37 MB
Release : 1901
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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Author : Michael Erard
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 19,45 MB
Release : 2012-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1451628277
A “fascinating” (The Economist) dive into the world of linguistics that is “part travelogue, part science lesson, part intellectual investigation…an entertaining, informative survey of some of the most fascinating polyglots of our time” (The New York Times Book Review). In Babel No More, Michael Erard, “a monolingual with benefits,” sets out on a quest to meet language superlearners and make sense of their mental powers. On the way he uncovers the secrets of historical figures like the nineteenth-century Italian cardinal Joseph Mezzofanti, who was said to speak seventy-two languages, as well as those of living language-superlearners such as Alexander Arguelles, a modern-day polyglot who knows dozens of languages and shows Erard the tricks of the trade to give him a dark glimpse into the life of obsessive language acquisition. With his ambitious examination of what language is, where it lives in the brain, and the cultural implications of polyglots’ pursuits, Erard explores the upper limits of our ability to learn and use languages and illuminates the intellectual potential in everyone. How do some people escape the curse of Babel—and what might the gods have demanded of them in return?
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Page : 876 pages
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Release : 1892
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Page : 912 pages
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Release : 1896
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