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Richard Simcott (born 1976/1977) [1] is a British polyglot who lives in Skopje, North Macedonia.Described by HarperCollins as "One of the most multilingual people from the United Kingdom", [2] he speaks at least 30 languages.
Michel Thomas (born Moniek Kroskof, February 3, 1914 – January 8, 2005) was a polyglot linguist, and decorated war veteran.He survived imprisonment in several Nazi concentration camps after serving in the Maquis of the French Resistance and worked with the U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps during World War II.
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), third president of the United States. He spoke English, French, Italian, and Latin, and could read Spanish and Greek. He may also have had some knowledge of German.
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He was a founding organizer of the North American Polyglot Symposium. [12] He travels to learn languages, and has given interviews in native languages on television and on YouTube, including in Chinese (both Mandarin and Cantonese ), Russian and Ukrainian . [ 16 ]
Polyglot was formatted as a US letter size PDF. It was divided into two sections, one for "traditional" games (RPGs, card games, board games, miniatures, etc.) and one for "digital" games. Every page of Polyglot had a banner image of the top containing Polyglot's logo. There are two different logos, one for the "traditional" gaming section and ...
The book is available online for download (PDF) at tesl-ej.org. The printed book is available from Amazon and Lulu [dot] com. With Languages in Mind: Musings of a Polyglot, 2016 (ISBN 978-1-4951-4066-2). The book is available online for download (PDF) at tesl-ej.org. The printed book is available from Amazon and Lulu [dot] com.
The Polyglotta Africana was the second work carried out by Koelle during his five years in Sierra Leone, the first being a grammar of the Vai language in 1849. [3] The idea of this was to use the fact that Sierra Leone was a melting pot of ex-slaves from all over Africa to compile a list of 280 basic words (a sort of early Swadesh list) in some 160 languages and dialects.