“Hyperpolyglots” or those rare multilingual human beings

This is a review of extraordinary polyglots in history, who spoke dozens of languages almost like their mother tongue as it was the case of the 19th century priest Giuseppe Mezzofanti. The book reviews this type of linguistic prowess and depicts similar cases while exploring the great potential of the brain and the weirdness and obsession of learning foreign languages. Personal comment: I always thought that polyglot folks have some sort of a strange relation with reality.

Babel no more : the search for the world’s most extraordinary language learners. Michel Erard. New York: Free Press, 2012.