Quotes by : Michael Erard

What you see and hear is a situation in which languages are less like apples — neat and discrete —....

Some studies of successful language learners have suggested that they're more "open to new experiences"....

The fact that early languages, no matter how many there are, utilize the same streams implies that the....

A related notion is that when you really know a language, you think in it. In fact, the brain doesn't....

If you want big improvements, she said, chew gum. Gum? Sure enough, chewing gum has been shown to improve....

One of the first things to understand was how people knew what language to speak to whom. Where I've....

Possible explanations for talented language learning fall into two general areas. One view says: What....

One difference is that individuals living in multilingual communities seem to settle on an optimal cognitive....

Why are there more male hyperpolyglots? One answer is that speaking a lot of languages is a geek macho....