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How many languages to be a polyglot?
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Poll Question: You call ’a polyglot’
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
At least 4 languages	221	[58.93%]
At least 5 languages	70	[18.67%]
6 or more languages	50	[13.33%]
7 or more languages	13	[3.47%]
More than 10 languages	21	[5.60%]
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tarvos
Super Polyglot
Winner TAC 2012
Senior Member
China
likeapolyglot.wordpr
Joined 4501 days ago
5310 posts - 9399 votes

Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans
Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish

Message 121 of 123

26 September 2012 at 7:08pm | IP Logged

Quote:

It is entirely feasible for some people to absorb 5 or 6 languages from early
childhood because the learning condtions are favourable and include tons of exposure.

Bingo. Seen this firsthand.

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Марк
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Russian Federation
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Speaks: Russian*

Message 122 of 123

27 September 2012 at 2:06pm | IP Logged

Serpent wrote:

jeff_lindqvist wrote:

Not everyone will find related languages
transparent enough to fully benefit from them during the learning process.

This
is so true! People in our class (who learned French) would giggle when the teacher told
them about the similarities between French and Latin.
And I myself never considered words like "brother" and "brat" (Russian, same meaning)
similar, not before I started learning Finnish:)

strange. I've always wondered about similarities between languages. And I wondered how
English words brother, mother, son, sun, salt were similar to the Russian words with the
same meaning.
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Serpent
Octoglot
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Russian Federation
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Joined 6391 days ago
9753 posts - 15779 votes

4 sounds
Speaks: Russian*, English, Finnish^C1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish

Message 123 of 123

27 September 2012 at 2:58pm | IP Logged

I had exposure to Belarusian at a young age so for me an example of similar would be печенье=пячэнне. English is not THAT similar, especially when you notice how similar it is to German.

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