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POLYGLOTTERY

What is Polyglottery?
What is the Path of the Polyglot?
Sample Systematic Study Chart:

What is Polyglottery?
Polyglottery is a scholarly discipline.  It embodies a quest to develop an encyclopedic mind and to philosophically understand the nature of your own consciousness through the passionate, in-depth, and respectful study of as many different languages as possible, focusing both upon their diachronic evolution of as actual entities and upon the intellectual heritage they have left in the form of great texts.  As an academic discipline, Polyglottery is the direct descendent and heir of Comparative Philology. However, whereas Comparative Philology had a tendency to focus inwards upon the origins of the Indo-European family in a nationalistic sense, Polyglottery faces outwards towards expanding the individual scholar’s horizons by imparting the ability to read classic texts in the tongues of other civilizations. 

 
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What is the Path of the Polyglot?
The Path of the Polyglot is the title of a 500-page book that I have written about Polyglottery.  I need to rewrite it under the guidance of a committed professional editor before it will ever see the light of day.  The extant table of contents is:

  1. Preface
  2. Introduction:  hyper-specialized study vs. broad comparative study
  3. What is Language?
  4. What is a language?
  5. What is linguistic taxonomy?
  6. What kinds of relationships can you have with languages?
  7. What methods are most efficient in the study of foreign languages?
  8. What reasons are there for studying foreign languages?
  9. What factors influence your success in the study of foreign languages?
  10. What does it mean to know a language?
  11. How many languages can a person know?
  12. How many languages have polyglots actually known?
  13. How many languages do I know?
  14. How many languages should you know?
  15. What languages should you know?
  16. In which order should you learn languages?
  17. What classic texts of the world's intellectual heritage should you aspire to read in the original?
  18. How can an Academy of Polyglottery be developed?
  19. How can Polyglottery reform general education?
  20. Conclusion

Sample Systematic Study Chart:
The practice of Polyglottery requires many hours of systematic hard study every single day of your life.  Keeping a chart to record your division of hours is essential to balancing your progress.  Students to whom I have shown my own charts in the past have found them to be helpful and inspirational.  Thus, I will post continuously updated charts here to document my own progress and to serve as a model for others who may wish to tread the path. 

Downloadable Study Chart

The record keeping on this chart begins on the 1st of January 2007 and runs until the present; the large number in the upper corners is the total number of days documented, the smaller number underneath it is the number of days in this calendar year. 

The chart documents hours spent on four activities: 

  1. Scriptorium = writing and transcription, measured in pages and then divided into hours
  2. Narrative = reading and listening to recorded books
  3. Analysis = grammatical study and practice
  4. Shadowing = listening to recorded material and simultaneously speaking it aloud while walking swiftly outdoors.
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