“How to learn 30 languages”

There’s a great deal in this article that strikes me as absolutely true and insightful:

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150528-how-to-learn-30-languages

I don’t profess to be a hyperglot, but I’ve noticed that my personality does indeed change a bit when, for example, I’m speaking German or Arabic.  I can’t become fully Arab.  That would be a bridge too far for me under the best of circumstances, and, anyway, by reason of appearance alone, I could never pass for an Arab.  But I can sometimes become a native German-speaker, and that’s a curious experience for somebody from southern California.

Posted from Berlin, Germany