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	Podcast:		The Documentary
	Episode:		The Superlinguists: The polyglots
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:26:42
	Publish Date:		2019-07-02 08:56:00
	Description:		Simon Calder meets people who keep learning new languages not because they have to, but because they want to. What motivates them? Situations like this - an immigrant hotel cleaner who is moved to tears because you speak to her in her native Albanian; A Nepalese Sherpa family that rolls about laughing in disbelief at hearing their foreign guest speak Sherpa. But do polyglots have a different brain from the rest of us? Simon travels to a specialised lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and undergoes a brain-scan himself, to find out.
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