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My thoughts on the word "polyglot"
I don't consider myself a polyglot. I don't use that word just because I feel like nowadays, there's a lot of people that use it just to boost their own ego.
Well, someone who knows multiple languages is called a polyglot. Neil, are you a polyglot?
I speak a little bit of a few languages but I couldn't say that I'm a polyglot. How about you?
Jan's a typical kind of polyglot app developer, likes writing stuff in microservices, likes delivering features very quickly, may have a language preference one way or the other,
Jan's a typical kind of polyglot app developer.
One of the reasons that I don't call myself a polyglot is because I would feel like a fraud, because I feel like I don't speak all of my languages 100% fluently at all times.
don't call myself a polyglot is
And he very quickly points out that that's a real mark of— and always has been— like, "Oh, you know they speak four languages." It's like, yeah, that means, "Oh boy, they're super smart or they're very worldly." Uh, and, you know, it certainly requires some intelligence to speak many languages, I think, uh, to be a polyglot.
I think to be a polyglot.
Richard is a fellow polyglot who told me that at the university, when he when he started learning, for example, Portuguese, Spanish, and, and
I still vividly remember a conversation with Richard, a fellow polyglot of mine,
It's basically I play a graduate student who's finishing up his doctoral thesis and goes to stay with a family, a very well-educated, sort of like polyglot family, of which Timothée plays Elio, their son.
of like polyglot family, of which Timothee plays Elio
A polyglot, not a linguist.
A polyglot... not a linguist.
If you are not into technology and would rather learn with others, do what popular YouTuber Timothy Doner, aka Polyglot Pal, recommends.
work and family are more important than being a polyglot — we do this only in our spare time.