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In today's show, I chat with the man, the legend, the one and only, Italian polyglot Luca Lampariello. Over the past 20 years, Luca has reached a very high level in 9 foreign languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Swedish, Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, and Mandarin Chinese. Luca is full useful tips and strategies, which he shares in depth at his excellent blog, The Polyglot Dream. In the interview, we discuss:

• How Luca got interested in languages.
• Procedural vs declarative memory.
• The weakness of rote memorization.
• How to train your brain to learn better.
• The myth that you have to be a genius to learn lots of languages.
• The myth that you have to learn a lot of words to become fluent.
• The myth that just reading or listening a lot will make you a better speaker.
• The ability to translate and communicate are very different things.
• Whether there is a proper order of acquisition for foreign language skills.
• The myth that polyglots can speak all their languages perfectly.
• The importance of maintaining previously learned languages as you take on another.
• Luca's daily language learning and maintenance routine.
• The myth that intensity always equals speed.
• Luca's favorite tools for different stages of learning.

For show notes, visit LanguageMastery.com/blog/Luca-Lampariello.

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