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Mezzofanti's Gift: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Lear,

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Located in: South East, United Kingdom

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Condition: Good: A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including ... Good: A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab

Title: Mezzofanti's Gift: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary

ISBN: 9780715645680

EAN: 9780715645680

Publication Year: 2013

Format: Paperback

Language: English

Book Title: Mezzofanti's Gift

Item Height: 218mm

Author: Michael Erard

Publisher: Duckworth Overlook

Item Width: 146mm

Item Weight: 424g

Number of Pages: 320 Pages

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Multilingualism is on the rise in the coming decades, as many as two billion people will learn English as a second language. The next stage up from multilingualism is the domain of the hyperpolyglot or superlearner: someone who claims to know at least six languages. But what does it mean to know a language? Can a person claim to speak a language fluently if it isn't their mother tongue? What role does culture play in learning languages? In this accessible and enthralling book, Michael Erard discusses the upper limits of the brain's capacity to learn languages and sheds light on the hyperpolyglot phenomenon, from the Italian cardinal Giuseppe Mezzofanti, who was said to speak as many as seventy-two languages, to the superlearners of the 21st century. Erard's exploration spans the globe as he travels to meet these living marvels and to investigate those of antiquity, and his discoveries not only illuminate the intellectual potential within all of us, but also indicate how we might begin to unlock it.

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Publisher

Duckworth Overlook

ISBN-13

9780715645680

eBay Product ID (ePID)

152669448

Product Key Features

Book Title

Mezzofanti's Gift

Author

Michael Erard

Format

Paperback

Language

English

Publication Year

2013

Number of Pages

320 Pages

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Item Height

218mm

Item Width

146mm

Item Weight

424g

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Michael Erard

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United Kingdom

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