The Superlinguists: The polyglots
Update: 2019-07-02
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Simon Calder meets people who keep learning new languages not because they have to, but because they want to. What motivates them? Situations like this - an immigrant hotel cleaner who is moved to tears because you speak to her in her native Albanian; A Nepalese Sherpa family that rolls about laughing in disbelief at hearing their foreign guest speak Sherpa. But do polyglots have a different brain from the rest of us? Simon travels to a specialised lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and undergoes a brain-scan himself, to find out.
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"To have another language is to possess another soul." Gosh, this quote talked to me so much. It's exactly what it feels like.
are there transcripts to the show?