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by Dave Seminara (RSS feed) on Apr 12th 2012, Gadling: A blog from the Huffington Post Americans are often criticized for our inability or unwillingness to learn foreign languages. I didn't even have the option to study a foreign language until I was 14 years old and while kids these days start learning languages – usually Spanish – much earlier, most Americans never...

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Source: Language Rich Europe Posted on April 5, 2012 by Kirsi Suutarinen A couple of weeks ago I overheard an interesting conversation while sitting in the park. Afterwards, I started to wonder if what I heard was just a one off example of special kind of language use or nothing special these days, and that’s when I decided to discuss the matter here in the hope of...

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26 March 2012, The Linguist Blog A former Mayor of Vancouver has launched a program called "greeting fluency" in which he wants to encourage people in Vancouver to learn to greet one another in different languages. Being able to say "hello" and "how are you", without any chance of understanding the response, and without really knowing how you sound,...

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Aktuelle EX-word Studie zeigt: Deutsche setzen bei Fremdsprachen auf Spanisch statt auf Französisch. Mehr zu: Fremdsprachen, Sonderthemen Norderstedt, 27.03.2012 - Spanisch ist nach Englisch die beliebteste Fremdsprache in Deutschland. Das zeigt die aktuelle EX-word Studie, für die Forsa im Auftrag von CASIO 1.004 Personen ab 14 Jahren befragt...

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'I'm often asked what the secret is. The truth is it's mostly down to endless hours of reading, studying and practising grammar' Alexander Arguelles guardian.co.uk I've been obsessed with languages for as long as I can remember. My family travelled a lot when I was young and my dad, a self-taught polyglot, would talk to everyone we met with apparent ease,...

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22. März, 2012, Online Sprachen Lernen Eine Fremdsprache zu erlernen ist oft sehr anstrengend und erfordert viel Zeit und Geduld. Der Sprachunterricht in der Schule oder in Sprachkursen ist meist langweilig und wenig effektiv. Selbstständig Vokabeln oder Grammatikregeln zu lernen macht nur den wenigsten Menschen Spaß. Doch gibt es viele andere Möglichkeiten,...

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Source: Blog "The Polyglot Dream", March 12th 2012, guest post by Jana Fadness Jana and I met in Paris a few months ago. She is an American language lover who has a great blog  and has created some fascinating YouTube videos (like this one), as well. Jana is a language learner with clear goals as you will see. Enjoy the following post First things first:...

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March 9, 2012 The answer, neurolinguists are now discovering, is a bit of both, said Loraine Obler, a linguist and a professor at the City University of New York who has studied bilingualism’s effect on the brain. “There are people whose brains are set up to do language learning,” she said, “the same way some people are more talented at drawing.” Also,...

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Von Rüdiger Busch Hardheim. In unserer globalen Welt, die immer enger zusammenrückt, kommt dem Erlernen von Fremdsprachen eine immer größere Bedeutung zu. Auch aus diesem Grund fördert das Kultusministerium seit 2007 bilinguale - also zweisprachige - Züge an Realschulen. Als eine von neun Schulen, die sich ab dem kommenden Schuljahr...

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By Vanessa Barford

Many people want to speak a second language, but for some people two can never be enough. Welcome to the world of the hyperpolyglot.

See article and video of Alex Rawlings demonstrating his skills in 11 languages... 

Als we het hebben over meertaligheid, denken we vaak aan twee of drie talen. Maar er zijn ook mensen die het daar niet bij laten. Op de BBC-website verscheen een filmpje van iemand die maar liefst 11 talen vloeiend spreekt, Nederlands en Afrikaans incluis.