When God put the kibosh on the Tower of Babel, 72 languages were said to have been created from the one that unified those hubristic humans. In his new book, Babel No More, linguist Michael Erard ...

Once you've learned one programming language or programming tool, it's pretty easy to get into another similar one. Sometimes, though, the fine differences are hard to remember. Hyperpolyglot is an ...

Are you bilingual, trilingual, or multilingual? Or, are you a polyglot or hyperpolyglot? Perhaps you are monolingual, but aspire to learn other languages. If you do speak one or more foreign languages ...

Can a forgotten 100-year-old method make you a hyperpolyglot today? 😲 In this episode, a seasoned language professor reveals a classic technique from the early 1900s that helped people learn multiple ...

"Hyperpolyglot" refers to those extraordinary linguists who can speak at least six (or by some definitions, 11) or more languages. Michael Erard's engaging new book, Babel No More: The Search for the ...

Born in Malaysia, Xin Yi Lim was raised in a family where English, Malay, Mandarin and Cantonese were all spoken regularly – but that was merely a jumping off point for her multilingual talents. The ...

Vaughn Smith, a carpet cleaner who grew up in the D.C. area, can speak 24 languages well enough to carry on complex conversations.

Prosper Oluwafunmibi Babalola is a 400-level student of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Ibadan. She is a hyperpolyglot, culture enthusiast, writer, and entrepreneur. She is popularly called ...

Talking to TOI, Mukherjee shared insights into her journey of becoming a hyperpolyglot. "As a Bengali from Nagpur, I learned Hindi, Marathi, and English apart from Bengali at home and school," she ...