“It depends who is doing what”, I would say. Timothy Doner is now (2014) 18-years-old. He lives in New York and mastered himself 23 languages, each one in just a few weeks. Cardinal Mezzofanti -who lived two hundred years ago in Italy- learnt and fluently spoke 38 languages without travelling out of Italy. In both […]
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Part 1 “Three days after I was born, as I lay in my silken cradle, gazing with astonishment dismay on the new world round about me, my mother spoke to the wet-nurse, saying: ‘How is my child?’ And the wet-nurse answered: ‘He does well, Madame, I have feed him three times; and never before have
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A popular Zimbabwean proverb says ‘If you can walk you can dance, if you can talk you can sing!‘: this is now the motto of “Voices of Lecale“, a community folk choir based in the historic town of Downpatrick, County Down, Northern Ireland. “The choir was formed in May 2007 and developed out of The Singers’ Circle at
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