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Meet The 16-Year-Old Who Speaks Over 20 Languages (WATCH)

Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Teen Speaks 23 Languages, Today Show, Learning Languages, Multilingualism, Richard Simcott, Multilingual, Timothy Doner, Teen Polyglot, Video, Teen News

If you thought learning one foreign language was confusing enough, try learning over 20 by the time you graduate high school. One incredible student, ...

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Adventures in Hyperpolyglottery: Inside the Mind of Extreme Language Learners

Nataly Kelly | Posted 02.28.2012

Read More: New Year's Resolutions, Language, European Commission, Bilingualism, Polyglots, Multilingual, Books, Foreign Language Learning, Books News
Nataly Kelly

As it turns out, learning languages is easier -- and more pleasurable -- for some folks than for others. In fact, there is a group of individuals who find the process so enjoyable that they take it to another level entirely. They're known as hyperpolyglots.

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What the !#$@%*?: Will the Rise of Spanish Redefine Indecency?

Daniel Cubias | Posted 08.26.2011

Read More: Insults, Broadcasting, Latinos, Latino, Ranchera, Univision, Broadcast Indecency, English, Hispanic, Bilingual, Spanish, Bilingualism, Hispanics, Cussing, Obscenity, Broadcast Media, Indecency, Broadcast TV, English Language, Vulgarity, Multilingualism, Fcc, Multilingual, Spanish Language, Federal Communications Commission, Bleep, Los Angeles Times, Spanish Broadcasting, Liz Lemon, Sue Sylvester, Swearing, Media News
Daniel Cubias

It stands to reason that as America grows more multilingual, we'll hear more Spanish on the airwaves. And some of that Spanish will be of the naughty variety.

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What Language Do You Dream In?

Dorian de Wind | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Ecuador, Education, French, Dreams, Curacao, Spanish Language, Multilingual, The Netherlands, German, Dutch Language, Languages, Papiamento, Healthy Living News
Dorian de Wind

It doesn't happen that often any more, but there are still times when my English-born wife gently, and sometimes not so gently, awakens me in the middle of the night to tell me that I have been talking in my sleep again in Spanish.

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Come to the Kitchina!

Juliet Linley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Language, Linguistics, Italy, Italian, Parenting, Children, Multilingual, World News
Juliet Linley

Around the age of two, our daughter started amusing us with a variety of linguistic amalgamations. She also started treating us as walking dictionaries, to fulfill her seemingly insatiable desire to learn how to say every single item she came across in both English and Italian.

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