Description

With 11 languages under his belt, Steve Kaufmann is an extremely accomplished language learner. His extensive language learning wisdom in shared in his book titled The Way of the Linguist: A Language Learning Odyssey and his online language learning system called LingQ. On top of all this, Steve maintains an informative blog well worth checking out. There he shares his views on language learning and other topics of interest. Many of the articles stir up quite a debate and it is enjoyable to go through the comments to see the vast array of viewpoints.With fluency in so many languages, most would immediately claim that Steve is simply a natural at language learning and that they themselves have no hope of learning 11 foreign tongues, let alone one. But having learned 5 of those languages after the age of 55, he lays waste to the myth that only children can acquire a language well.