Posted on by Kenneth Sutton

Polyglot dreams

Ten languages I’ve at times thought I’d like to be able to make myself understood in (or to understand, in the case of dead languages):

  1. English (not, unfortunately, always a given)
  2. French
  3. Dutch
  4. Yiddish
  5. Swahili
  6. Mandarin
  7. Icelandic
  8. Old English
  9. Latin
  10. Hebrew

See, I’ve always had this vague, unrealized dream of being a polyglot. Unfortunately, it has remained a dream, as even my six years of instruction in French (lo these many years ago) have come to naught.

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3 Replies to “Polyglot dreams”

  1. You still have plenty of time! I’d start with whichever you think would be the least useful. Or do Yiddish because it sounds so cool. I plan to be stuck in Beginner Level 2 Russian for at least the next forty years.

  3. Those T ads are a constant burr if one has polyglot dreams.

    Swahili is in large part because that’s the common language used by Quakers in East Africa.

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