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POLYGLOT
H O W I L E A R N L A N G U A G E S
KATÓ LOMB
 POLYGLOT
How I Learn Languages
KATÓ LOMB
TRANSLATED FROM THE HUNGARIAN BY
ÁDÁM SZEGI
KORNELIA D
E
KORNE
EDITED BY SCOTT ALKIRE
TESL-EJ
Berkeley Kyoto
Acknowledgments
hank you to
Elizabeth Collison
Elena Smolinska
Sylvia Rucker
Professor hom Huebner
for their help with this project.
he review comments of Dr. Larissa Chiriaeva,
Maria Çomsa, MA, and Dr. Stefan Frazier were
invaluable in the preparation of the manuscript.
—Scott Alkire
Translated by Ádám Szegi
he irst two Forewords, Introduction, and
Chapter 20 translated by Kornelia DeKorne
Publisher’s Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Lomb, Kató , 1909–2003.
Polyglot : how I learn languages / Kató Lomb. — 1st English ed.
p. cm.
Library of Congress Control Number: [forthcoming]
ISBN 978-1-60643-706-3
1. Language learning. I. Title
Copyright © 2008 by Scott Alkire. All rights reserved.
Cover:
he Tower of Babel
Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1563)
TESL-EJ
Berkeley Kyoto
Contents
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Preface
vii
Foreword to the First Edition
xvii
Foreword to the Second Edition
xix
Foreword to the Fourth Edition
xxi
Introduction
23
What Is Language?
35
Why Do We and Why Should We Study Languages? 37
he Type of Language to Study
39
“Easy” and “Diicult” Languages
41
How to Study Languages
49
Who his Book Is and Isn’t For
51
Let’s Read!
67
Why and What We Should Read
73
How We Should Read
85
Reading and Pronunciation
89
What Sort of Languages Do People Study?
97
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