Sentence examples for polyglots from inspiring English sources
Peppered with random questions from the audience ("What is the only man-made structure visible from the moon?" in Chinese, "What day of the week is it today?" in Russian) he flailed repeatedly, in a YouTube clip that serves as a well-known cautionary tale among polyglots.
Most polyglots will have repeated these opening conversational turns a hundred times, and so the initial meeting with the delighted foreigner is bound to impress.But once the conversation goes into unexpected territory, things can go badly quickly.
THE polyglots of Iceland should be able to cope with the name Huang Nubo.
That appears to have been effective: a recent survey by CfBT, a charity, found that 40% of schools reported a rise in the number of pupils studying languages.New pressure comes from universities, the pickiest of which like to admit polyglots.
This is what is done by linguists, or linguistic scientists, persons devoting themselves to the scientific study of languages (as opposed to the popular sense of linguists as polyglots, persons having a command of several different languages).
It was published in the Paris (1628 45) and London Polyglots (1654 57), written in several languages in comparative columns.
Moreover, he would begin a sentence in Italian and conclude in French or German, like "Signori, prego, cominciare a battuta achtundzwanzig, merci!" A flurry of page-turning and mumbles of "Where?" would occupy the next few minutes, while Italian musicians queried their German colleagues about the number, and we poor non-polyglots would just wait for a nearby translation.
Shanghai was one of the most polyglot cities in the world, a vast metropolis governed by the British and French but otherwise an American zone of influence.
Everywhere you went in Paris during the revolt in Tunisia, portable televisions blared at top volume in shops, takeaways and cafes, broadcasting a polyglot, polyphonic babble from Al Jazeera, Al Arabiya and the French-speaking channels from the Maghreb.
And the editorial perspective of the polyglot and remorselessly internationally minded World Service helps the more intelligent end of BBC journalism to steel itself against the temptations of celebrity rubbish.
That accolade belongs instead to the shadowy figure of Kathrin Muehlbronner, a polyglot economics graduate of the university of Tübingen who, it is tempting to say, may exert more reactionary influence over Spanish life than any woman since Queen Isabella drove out the Moors, expelled the Jews and put the Inquisition at the centre of the nation more than half a millennium ago.
