Does a polyglot learn languages differently than an average person?

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Also, is it possible to anyone to become a polyglot?

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Yes, it is possible: learn yet another language…
As polyglot simply means that you need to speak at least two additional languages, you start (or already have started) by learning your first foreign language. I guess it’s easier to start with a second foreign language a bit later, so the first one had time to “settle” a bit. E.g. in school we started with English (which is not my mothertongue) when I was about 10. French classes started two years later. …any language after that I more or less picked up by living abroad. Coming back to your original question, no, for us the learning process was pretty much the same. Only sometimes you have an overlap between languages, which makes it easier. E.g. almost all French and English word that end in “…ion” are the same in both languages 🙂

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