{"id":1598792,"date":"2019-07-02T13:56:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T13:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"urn:bbc:podcast:p07fs81t"},"modified":"2019-07-02T13:56:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T13:56:00","slug":"the-superlinguists-the-polyglots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2019\/07\/02\/the-superlinguists-the-polyglots\/","title":{"rendered":"The Superlinguists: The polyglots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p07fs81t\">The Documentary Podcast<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8211; an immigrant hotel cleaner who is moved to tears because you speak to her in her native Albanian; &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1527,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598792"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1598792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1598793,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598792\/revisions\/1598793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1598792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1598792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1598792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}