Michael Erard - Babel No More tag:www.michaelerard.com,2009-01-04:/babelnomore//8 2009-01-12T04:21:57Z Babel No More is a book about the upper limits of the human ability to learn and speak languages. Who is the world's most multilingual person, and how multilingual can anyone -- including you -- be? Movable Type Personal 4.12 Babel No More tag:www.michaelerard.com,2009:/babelnomore//8.459 2009-01-04T17:50:10Z 2009-01-12T04:21:57Z Babel No More Babel No More book about the upper limits of the human ability to learn and speak languages. Who is the world's most multilingual person, and how multilingual can anyone -- including you -- be? Author Michael... Michael Erard http://michaelerard.com

Babel No More

Babel No More book about the upper limits of the human ability to learn and speak languages. Who is the world's most multilingual person, and how multilingual can anyone -- including you -- be?

Author Michael Erard set up this website to collect information for his research. He has an MA in linguistics and a PhD in English (specializing in rhetoric and linguistics) and writes frequently for English-language print media about language topics. For an archive of his work, see his website here. To buy his first book, Um...: Slips, Stumbles, and Verbal Blunders, and What They Mean, go here.

In 2005 he wrote an article for the New Scientist about the science of hyperpolyglots.

Read the article that started it all >>

 

Watch the video (you will be redirected to YouTube)

Can you speak six or more languages?Click here to take the survey

 

]]>