{"id":1412,"date":"2012-02-25T12:17:45","date_gmt":"2012-02-25T12:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=1412"},"modified":"2012-02-24T21:21:22","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T21:21:22","slug":"hyperpolyglots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/25\/hyperpolyglots\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyperpolyglots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/25\/extraordinary-language-learners\/\">posted<\/a> about a new book by Michael Erard called <em>Babel No More: The Search for the World\u2019s Most Extraordinary Language Learners<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Erard defines a hyperpolyglot as someone who speaks eleven languages or more, and he can add Oxford University student Alex Rawlings to the list. Alex is only twenty, but can speak eleven languages: English, Greek, German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Afrikaans, French, Hebrew, Catalan and Italian.<\/p>\n<p>He started learning as a child because his mother spoke three languages with him \u2013 English, French and Greek. Alex\u2019s love of languages has grown from there. You can hear him talk about his language acquisition progression in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-17107435 \">this video<\/a> from BBC News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month I posted about a new book by Michael Erard called Babel No More: The Search for the World\u2019s Most Extraordinary Language Learners. Erard defines a hyperpolyglot as someone who speaks eleven languages or more, and he can add Oxford University student Alex Rawlings to the list. Alex is only twenty, but can speak [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,40],"tags":[336,1104,1103,3,4,5,175,98,1102,506,40,252,327],"class_list":["post-1412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-language-acquisition","tag-afrikaans","tag-catalan","tag-dutch","tag-english","tag-french","tag-german","tag-greek","tag-hebrew","tag-hyperpolyglot","tag-italian","tag-language-acquisition","tag-russian","tag-spanish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1412"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1414,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions\/1414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}