Vocab Practice: Polyglot

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This word appeared on the Cool Word Club website on May 11, 2015.

Let’s do a practice round!

Polyglot means:

A) Unfamiliar
B) Many-sided
C) Multilingual
D) Persuasive

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Cool Word Challenge: Polyglot and Manifold

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Cool Word Challenge: Just for fun, come up with one sentence that uses both of the cool vocabulary words that you learned this week.

Here are the words again:

Polyglot: A person who knows several languages; multilingual.

Manifold: Numerous and varied; using similar devices at the same time.

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Why It Pays to Be a Polyglot…

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Traveling to a foreign country can be lots of fun—especially if you speak the language that is used there.

In surveys, about 20% of Americans describe themselves as bilingual compared with 56% of Europeans.

Now, researchers are discovering even more advantages to being a polyglot (see definition and hear pronunciation [Read more…]