The SuperLinguists
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- Episode
- Episode 1
- Broadcast Info
- 2019 (26 mins)
- Description
- Simon Calder meets people who keep learning new languages not because they have to, but because they want to. What motivates them? Situations like this - an immigrant hotel cleaner who is moved to tears because you speak to her in her native Albanian; A Nepalese Sherpa family that rolls about laughing in disbelief at hearing their foreign guest speak Sherpa. But do polyglots have a different brain from the rest of us? Simon travels to a specialised lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and undergoes a brain-scan himself, to find out.
- Genre
- Languages
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The Open University, "The SuperLinguists". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ou/search/index.php/prog/233723 (Accessed 10 Jan 2025)