{"id":332,"date":"2022-02-22T11:58:38","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T11:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/declansoftware.com\/blog\/?p=332"},"modified":"2022-02-22T11:58:38","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T11:58:38","slug":"philip-crowther-fluent-in-six-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.declansoftware.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/philip-crowther-fluent-in-six-languages\/","title":{"rendered":"Philip Crowther &#8211; fluent in six languages"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is a truly impressive multi-lingual achievement by a British-German\u2013Luxembourgian\u00a0journalist reporter called Philip Crowther. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Six-language coverage from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Kyiv?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Kyiv<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AP_GMS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AP_GMS<\/a>. In this order: English, Luxembourgish, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kyEg0aCCoT\">pic.twitter.com\/kyEg0aCCoT<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Philip Crowther (@PhCrowther) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PhCrowther\/status\/1495730338315841539?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 21, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Apparently he speaks fluently in six languages: French, Spanish,\u00a0Portuguese, English, German, and\u00a0Luxembourgish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was born in Luxembourg to a British father and German mother.  At home, his father always spoke English and his mother answered in German.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He explained that he learned to speak Luxembourgish with his friends, and learned French very early, at school. In college, he added Spanish and Portuguese. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Growing up in Luxembourg, he said that young people there usually speak four languages, including French and English, taught from the age of 10 and 12 respectively. &#8220;Most of us speak four languages \u200b\u200bperfectly by the time we finish school.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From the age of 14, he started to learn Spanish and became fluent when he moved to Barcelona at 20. The following year, upon entering a university in London, he decided that it would be a good idea to learn Portuguese. He graduated in Hispanic Studies from King\u2019s College London. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having studied and lived in Spain, Paris and England for extended periods and this has of course helped learning with immersion. Though it didn&#8217;t all go smoothly for the him: \u201cFor me, French was the most frustrating because it was the first language learned outside the home and with a grammar that isn\u2019t very logical.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a truly impressive multi-lingual achievement by a British-German\u2013Luxembourgian\u00a0journalist reporter called Philip Crowther. Apparently he speaks fluently in six languages: French, Spanish,\u00a0Portuguese, English, German, and\u00a0Luxembourgish. He was born in Luxembourg to a British father and German mother. At home, his father always spoke English and his mother answered in German. He explained that he<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.declansoftware.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/philip-crowther-fluent-in-six-languages\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Philip Crowther &#8211; fluent in six languages&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.declansoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.declansoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.declansoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.declansoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.declansoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.declansoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.declansoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.declansoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.declansoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}