How does one become a hyperpolyglot? I stumbled upon an article

Currently struggling to learn french. I plan on learning german, russian, and greek at some point in my life

I'm guessing no matter how hard most people try, they won't achieve that level of fluency in that many languages. That person was just an outlier with a weird brain.

Dude English, French, Russian, German, Spanish, Italian and Greek are the only languages actually worth learning for literature. Add Chinese, Japanese and Latin if you're particularly autistic.

>>8865927
He wasn't fluent in 65, he was fluent in 20. I could reasonably do that, specially considering how some languages, like spanish, italian and portuguese, come in bundles.
Actually, he was barely fluent in 20, since he could translate FROM them.

>>8865861
hyper, primary-tier autism

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>>8865933
>no Latin

If you are really dedicated I bet you can "speak" 10 or more languages. However I think most hyperglots just have a surface level understanding of each language they speak and are able to stretch it further with cognates.

>>8866428
Holy fuck you suck at reading

>>8865933
If you're a pleb, sure.

>>8866428
looks like you need to master english first hon

>>8867387
I could see an 60 year old having actually acquired fluency in 10 languages. The main obstacle is just vocabulary and idioms. Any grammar takes a few years tops to really understand but languages are fucking immense when you factor in the context that each word has.

Maybe some kind of savant can bypass this, idk.

>>8865861
Obviously you have to study and not waste time shitposting.