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

It is quite funny to answer this questions because as most of my fellow polyglots, my story did not have a clear start date. I remember when I was 16 and we were having French lessons but I chose to learn German by myself instead. In that exact moment, my polyglot journey began. Ever since, after discovering the perks of knowing multiple languages and my passion for exploring other people’s way of living and travelling around the world, languages started to make more and more sense.

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

I often find it quite difficult to choose a new language to start because I really like to devote my time to new languages, and that gets more and more difficult with every new language I take on. Nowadays, I would say Italian and Polish, since I barely get to practice them.

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

I have no doubts about certain languages that are ‘on my list’, for example Serbo-Croatian, Turkish or Arabic. I’d love to learn Dutch, Euskera, Romanian, Greek, Persian and a Scandinavian language as well.

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

Russian, I will not elaborate much on this, but just the way it sounds is amazingly attractive to me.

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

Getting to live experiences I could never think of had I not started learning them. I truly enjoy experiencing the world in a different way thanks to my multilingual lifestyle.

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?

While the tendency is exactly towards reducing the total number of languages, I do not think such estimations will be met. Languages are tied to identities and striping the main sign of identity from many people in such a short lapse is nearly impossible as I see it.

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

There is no limitation other than your beliefs. Learning multiple languages is not a decision, but a lifestyle and it requires a certain amount of effort and time that you have to devote to it on a daily basis.