The Confession of a Polyglot
15 min readJun 1, 2022
What does it take to learn a foreign language? In what language does a polyglot think?
A polyglot is a person who speaks more than three languages. A bilingual is one who speaks two languages, of course. Then how do you call a person who speaks just one language?
“An American.”
That is an old joke, but it has some truth to it. Most Americans do not feel the need…
