1. What’s your story? How did you get into all these languages?

I come from a small region in the Northern Sardinia (Anglona). I grew up speaking Sardinian, Italian, Corsican (Gadduresu), and I also spent part of my childhood with my sister’s family in L’Alguer (Alghero) the Catalan-speaking city of Sardinia. During the 1980s all these minority languages were still very alive and you could hear people speaking it everywhere. Later, I moved to Perugia to study Linguistics at university. After that, I spent a couple of months in Paris, where I also learned some basic French. After that, I moved to Seville, in Spain, to study flamenco guitar at the Conservatory of Music and at another guitar academy. Later in life, I became the father of a son with a Czech woman, and I moved to the Czech Republic, where I studied English and Czech. I currently live in Brno.

2. Which language(s) do you wish you could spend more time practising?

I can practise almost all of them except Corsican, because it’s very difficult to find someone to speak it with.

3. What are some languages you’d like to learn in the future?

I would like to improve my French and I would like to speak German.

4. So let’s be honest, which language has the most charm for you?

Honestly, I don’t have any preference for any language, except Sardinian.

5. What’s the greatest pleasure you get from speaking so many languages?

First of all, mental flexibility and a kind of mental training. Secondly the possibility of creating a deep connection with other people.

6. Some people say the world is really just going to have a few languages left in a 100 years, do you think this is really true?

It could be. I don’t exclude that possibility. Surely new languages may also appear or develop though different reasons. However, I am afraid that many languages could disappear in the next 100 years.

7. What is your message to young (and not so young) people out there who are interested in studying multiple languages?

The human brain is not limited. It’s not like a fridge that becomes full. In that sense, you have to be open, my friend.