Jayme in Boston is doing 30 things including…

Become a Polyglot

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Graduate Studies 10 months ago

I need a language proficiency for Grad studies and I am interested in the following:

Hebrew
Greek
Latin
Arabic
Turkish
French

French will likely be my modern language. In the mean time, I have been attending tutoring sessions for Hebrew. I will need to pass proficiency exams in both during Grad school.



The Languages 3 years ago

Ideally, I would love to learn several languages: Spanish; Italian; German; French; Russian; Japanese; Farsi; Turkish; Arabic; Latin; Greek; Hebrew; Aramaic. Ambitious much?

I have already taken several (three) years of Spanish and feel very confident that while I can’t speak it fluently, I would be able to get around in a foreign Spanish speaking country. I have also taken both German and French before but not significant enough amounts of either.



Defined 3 years ago

pol·y·glot (pl-glt)
adj.

Speaking, writing, written in, or composed of several languages.

n.
A person having a speaking, reading, or writing knowledge of several languages.
A book, especially a Bible, containing several versions of the same text in different languages.
A mixture or confusion of languages.

[French polyglotte, from Greek poluglttos : polu-, poly- + gltta, tongue, language.]

poly·glotism or poly·glottism n.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition



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