{"id":3686,"date":"2012-01-17T15:20:47","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T20:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/?p=3686"},"modified":"2012-01-17T15:32:13","modified_gmt":"2012-01-17T20:32:13","slug":"the-united-states-of-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/the-united-states-of-languages\/","title":{"rendered":"The United States of Languages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/2012-01-17-The-United-States-of-Languages.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3687\" title=\"2012-01-17 The United States of Languages\" src=\"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/2012-01-17-The-United-States-of-Languages-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a> On January 14th, <em>The New York Times<\/em> published a very interesting article by writer Michael Erard explaining why the assumption that the U.S.A. is mainly a monolingual country is flawed.<\/p>\n<p>He raises the key point that the United States Census Bureau only asks households what language they speak at home rather than a more telling question like, \u00abCan you have a conversation in a language besides your mother tongue?\u00bb Until that is the case, Erard argues that \u00abclaims about American monolingualism will almost certainly be overstated.\u00bb<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nyti.ms\/zPtvMN\" target=\"_blank\">Read the article here\u00a0\u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.babelnomore.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3694\" title=\"2012-01-17 Babel No More\" src=\"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/2012-01-17-Babel-No-More.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"182\" height=\"276\" \/><\/a><\/span><em>Babel No More<\/em> by\u00a0Michael Erard<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who is predisposed to learn new languages? Michael Erard\u2019s book, <em>Babel No More: The Search for the World&#8217;s Most Extraordinary Language Learners<\/em>, will answer that question.<\/p>\n<p>The book came about after Erard wrote an article for a pop science magazine that aimed to explain the science behind hyperpolyglots (people who can speak six or more languages). He realized how much more could be researched and written about the fascinating topic of language superlearners.<\/p>\n<p>For more information:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 14th, The New York Times published a very interesting article by writer Michael Erard explaining why the assumption that the U.S.A. is mainly &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3686"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3686"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3727,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3686\/revisions\/3727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}