Michael Erard - Babel No More http://www.michaelerard.com/babelnomore/ 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? en-us Copyright 2009 Sun, 04 Jan 2009 17:50:10 +0000 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Babel No More

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.

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