Chloe: Critic Girl/Renaissance Woman

April 27, 2005

Polyglot…or dilletante?

Polyglot
1. A person having a speaking, reading, or writing knowledge of several languages.
2. A book, especially a Bible, containing several versions of the same text in different languages.
3. A mixture or confusion of languages.

Despite my genuine interest in learning Spanish, I’ve decided to put that off for a while and to listen to my instincts. I am much more advanced in my French abilities and often seek out French websites, radio stations, etc. I also found an NYU Continuing and Professional Studies Certificate Program for translation of legal documents from French to English. Of course, there is also a course for Spanish to English, and that will be useful for another day.

And so, to prevent the risk of dilletantism taking over my pursuits of genius, I am going to take some French conversation and/or general French classes this summer at the Alliance Francaise here in NYC. Hopefully, after a summer brush-up, I will be able to get into the Translation certificate program.

Once I’ve mastered one language, then I will return to my lingual dilletantism and work on my Spanish, Russian, Chinese, and German. Not necessarily in that order :)

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