Monday, April 30, 2012

Eleven Languages

 
Twenty-year-old Alex Rawlings can currently speak eleven languages - English, Greek, German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Afrikaans, French, Hebrew, Catalan and Italian. He has won a national competition in the search of Britain's most multilingual student (aged between sixteen and twenty-two). This BBC News video features Rawlings speaking in all eleven languages about his learning experiences.

Oh my goodness. To know this many languages would be incredible. I wish New Zealand had more emphasis on bilingualism, let alone multilingualism.