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The Superlinguists

The people who speak many languages. How do they do it, and why?

Imagine speaking 10, 20, even 50 languages. Or living in a country where you have to speak three or four languages to get through your day. Simon Calder meets polyglots who love languages so much that they keep learning new ones. Could anyone do this? Simon gets the best tips for learning a new language. In multilingual countries – India and Luxembourg – people use several languages every day. How does that work? And do monolingual countries still exist?