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Babel No More will be released on October 02, 2012 in Trade Paperback
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Babel No More will be released on January 10, 2012 in Hardcover, eBook
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Michael Erard's Books
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Babel No MoreWe all learn at least one language as children. But what does it take to learn six languages, twenty . . . seventy? Such feats of linguistic prowess...Read More
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Science News Online, March 10, 2012
...Some people speak several languages — lots of people, actually. But imagine understanding 15 or 30. That’s rare company, and Erard finds such people irresistible. He explores the world of “hyperpolyglots,” superlearners who test the upper limits...
BBC, February 21, 2012
...And a new book, Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners, by Michael Erard, suggests he is among a set of people who are learning languages for fun. So what makes some people learn language after language? For...
Media Bistro, February 13, 2012
...Journalist Michael Erard has just published Babel No More : The Search for the World’s Most Extraordinary Language Learners . Now he’s testing readers’ language-spotting abilities with a video contest. Erard assembled...
Culturekiosque, February 9, 2012
...Fit in anywhere, effortlessly. Two fascinating new books, David Bellos’ Is That a Fish in Your Ear? and Michael Erard’s Babel No More, provide some insight into how we’re progressing towards that dream and what obstacles we face along the way. ...
Huffington Post, February 7, 2012
...At home, we speak English, except for a few Spanish words for sneaking around toddler ears. But in my life, my brain and tongue have been touched too much by Spanish and Mandarin for me to be considered purely monolingual. Even now, I can read and...
Torch, February 6, 2012
...Michael Erard, author of "Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners" and "Um...Slips, Stumbles, and Verbal Blunders" took the Gage Gallery podium last Monday...
Ithaca Journal, January 29, 2012
...University in the 19th century. Photo provided/THE HISTORY CENTER IN TOMPKINS COUNTY There is a new book by Michael Erard entitled "Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners," about people who learn multiple languages...
Individual.com, February 29, 2012
...break bread with their readers include Crash Barry, Sarah Braunstein, Jaed Coffin, Melissa Coleman, Susan Conley, Sara Corbett, Michael Erard, James Hayman, Hannah Holmes, Shonna Milliken Humphrey, John McDonald, Wesley McNair, James L. Nelson, Morgan...
Portland Press Herald, February 29, 2012
...break bread with their readers include Crash Barry, Sarah Braunstein, Jaed Coffin, Melissa Coleman, Susan Conley, Sara Corbett, Michael Erard, James Hayman, Hannah Holmes, Shonna Milliken Humphrey, John McDonald, Wesley McNair, James L. Nelson, Morgan...
ABC Online, February 25, 2012
...which is at least two pages a day each of Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Latin. PHILIP WILLIAMS: Author Michael Erard has written a book, Babel no more - the search for the world most extraordinary language learners, and he was fascinated by Alexander...
BBC, February 21, 2012
...And a new book, Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners, by Michael Erard, suggests he is among a set of people who are learning languages for fun. So what makes some people learn language after language? For...
The Atlantic Wire, February 13, 2012
...all the post-BAFTA plaudits. Unfair, we say, to sturdy, reliable Colin Firth. [BBC via Vulture] This is fun: Michael Erard, author of the new language book Babel No More, has filmed various friends reading excerpts from the text in different languages....
Media Bistro, February 13, 2012
...Journalist Michael Erard has just published Babel No More : The Search for the World’s Most Extraordinary Language Learners . Now he’s testing readers’ language-spotting abilities with a video contest. Erard assembled...
Culturekiosque, February 9, 2012
...Fit in anywhere, effortlessly. Two fascinating new books, David Bellos’ Is That a Fish in Your Ear? and Michael Erard’s Babel No More, provide some insight into how we’re progressing towards that dream and what obstacles we face along the way. ...
