Richard Simcott has studied over 50 languages so far and will learn Afrikaans and Zulu this year. While most five-year-olds were just learning to read and write in their native tongue, Englishman ...

Richard Simcott speaks dozens of languages. He has studied around 50 but speaks only 5 at home and 25/35 socially or for work reasons. We met him ahead of the Melbourne Language Event.

"A language is a vehicle on which our culture and heritage rides. It is important that we do everything to preserve our languages." - Richard Simcott Sleeping Beauties, or Dreaming beauties, is the ...

Some 36-year-olds choose to collect vintage wine, vinyl records or sports memorabilia. For Richard Simcott, it is languages. His itch to learn has led him to study more than 30 foreign tongues - and ...

Some 36-year-olds choose to collect vintage wine, vinyl records or sports memorabilia. For Richard Simcott, it is languages. His itch to learn has led him to study more than 30 foreign tongues – and ...

Italian cardinal Joseph Caspar Mezzofanti was said to have spoken more than 38 languages fluently at the time of his death in 1849, a skill that would have been imminently useful in today's globalized ...