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com Hello this is six minute English.

Hello, this is six minute English from BBC Learning English. I'm Neil.

And I'm Rob.

Bonjour Rob.

Conitu. Excuse me?

Ola, how how you're?

Oh, okay, I think Neil saying hello in different languages.

French was it and then Japanese?

And Spanish, is that right?

Yes, moo bien.

The English are famously slow to learn other languages, but it seems that Rob and I, and of course

you, our global audience here at Six Minute English, are good examples of

polyglots. People who speak more than one language, sometimes known as super linguists.

People who speak multiple languages benefit from many advantages, as we'll be hearing in this program.

That word polyglot sounds familiar, Neil. Doesn't the prefix,

Poly mean many?

That's right, like polygon, a shape with many sides.

Or polymath, someone who knows many things.

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