Michael Erard
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Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners

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A ?fascinating? (The Economist) dive into the world of linguistics that is ?part travelogue, part science lesson, part intellectual investigation...an entertaining, informative survey of some of the most fascinating polyglots of our time? (The New York Times Book Review). In Babel No More, Michael Erard, ?a monolingual with benefits,? sets out on a quest to meet language superlearners and make sense of their mental powers. On the way he uncovers the secrets of historical figures like the nineteenth-century Italian cardinal Joseph Mezzofanti, who was said to speak seventy-two languages, as well...