Word: polyglotism
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...along with the goatee Willis sports when he needs to look super tough and mature. This gleaming-headed Wax man has been sent to Paris to bust a drug ring and a terrorist cell. As a bonus, he will give machismo lessons to James (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), a wonky polyglot who works as an aide to the U.S. Ambassador but longs to be Jason Bourne. (See the best movies of the decade...
...taught business and financial English vocabulary and are given help improving their résumés and job-interviewing skills - in English. "These are students who've wanted to improve their English as part of many things they'll need in their careers," says Alain Nothern, the polyglot director of Berlitz's Opera center. "The focus is English, but it's a wider tool kit for the business world...
...talent for communication that made him an international celebrity when he took power after 2003's bloodless Rose Revolution. He's an imposing man - at 6 ft. 4 in. (193 cm), he is the tallest Georgian I saw until we watched the national basketball team beat Belarus - with a polyglot charisma. At various times throughout the week, he spoke to me in Russian, Spanish and - above all - his famous English, an enthusiastic tumble of idiomatic American that he learned while studying and practicing law in New York City and Washington. (See pictures of the Russians in Ossetia...
...one’s needs—from restaurants, supermarkets, and karaoke bars, to medical, legal, insurance and real estate services—are readily available in one’s mother tongue. Major cities such as New York and Los Angeles are as much or more about a polyglot patchwork of such self-contained ethnic communities as they are about anything that could be called a dominant culture. Indeed, even whatever could loosely be called a “dominant culture” derived from white Anglo-Saxon Protestants, is like the croutons in a soup whose broth...
...staffs is English, notoriously monolingual Americans, Brits and Australians probably rank higher than they should. The French readily volunteer that their practice of foreign languages leaves much to be desired, but even the harshest Francophobe would mock the poll's finding that the average Yank tourist is the better polyglot. At least that's what French travelers might argue...