Word: polyglotism
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...plays are given in Russian, and their remarkable popularity with unlinguistic Americans seems somewhat strange at first glance. It is true that they attract a certain number who would listen to Chinese or Polyglot simply because it was the thing to do. But such sincere art as this could never degenerate into a mere fad. Audiences who are seeking the artistic, do not find it spoiled merely because some of the subtleties are lost in a foreign tongue. One catches the inspiration of the Winged Victory of Samothrace, even though it has no head, no feet, and only...
...University Extension Division, is helping to make possible the exercise of the "international mind" through the spoken word. When the courses which are announced to begin next Monday are in progress, there will be a wider representation of tongues than occurred at Pentecost, for in this ancient historic polyglot assemblage no tongue was represented from regions more remote from Jerusalem than Mesopotamia and Asia Minor and Egypt, with the exception of "sojourners from Rome"; whereas the Columbia courses are practically planetary in their scope. They are extension courses in a double sense, embracing as they do the following spoken languages...
...Russian Government is about to establish at St. Petersburg, a Polyglot college, where perhaps eighty-five languages will be taught. A Russian professor, himself speaking over a score of languages, is about to publish Mezzofanti's method of learning a foreign tongue. "Every man of average capability can learn any foreign language within a month," says the Professor, "and whoever fails is lazy or a stupid fellow...
...Russian Government is about to establish at St. Petersburg a Polyglot College, in which will be taught all the modern languages of any importance, and the tongues of all the nationalities, about seventy, under the Czar's sceptre. The purpose of this college is to prepare trust worthy and thorough interpreters for the diplomatic, consular, and military service, the civil officers and missionaries who have to deal with the different nations found in Russia, and mercantile agents who have to attend to the import and export trade. A Russian professor himself speaking over a score of languages says...
...visited Rome, and was introduced to that polyglot man who spoke in fifty-eight languages, and who, in that respect, has never been surpassed by any one - I mean of course, the Cardinal Mezzofanti. In order to puzzle the man who used to puzzle everybody, I began to speak to him in the language of Little Russia. 'What language is that?' he asked me in Italian. 'Little Russia,' I answered. 'Well, come to see me again in two weeks' he said. Two weeks passed and I presented myself to the cardinal, who for two hours spoke to me in Little...