Davar Akher

Most ‘laypeople’ that I meet are impressed when they get a sense of how many languages I have studied. Unlike Western Europe, Australia is not a land whose citizens are renowned for their polyglotism. Like many people, most of those who I meet are under the impression that learning new languages is difficult and that the more one learns, the smarter one must be. Like most assumptions that people make, this is entirely false; the more languages that one studies, the easier that the acquisition of a new one becomes. It is time to break down a few of the more popular linguistic misconceptions that are out there.

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