{"id":65400,"date":"2023-08-13T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-13T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/?p=65400"},"modified":"2023-08-13T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T14:00:00","slug":"commentary-fascinated-by-polyglots-who-speak-many-languages-that-could-be-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/?p=65400","title":{"rendered":"Commentary: Fascinated by polyglots who speak many languages? That could be you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If we struggle with our mother tongue despite years in school, do we lack innate talent for languages? Most of us won\u2019t end up speaking 11 languages like Oxford student Jonas Fine Tan, but his story should inspire us to try, says NUS Centre for Language Studies\u2019 Daniel Chan.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/commentary\/learn-multiple-foreign-language-jonas-fine-tan-singaporean-oxford-polyglot-viral-tiktok-3694141\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we struggle with our mother tongue despite years in school, do we lack innate talent for languages? Most of us won\u2019t end up speaking 11 languages like Oxford student Jonas Fine Tan, but his story should inspire us to try, says NUS Centre for Language Studies\u2019 Daniel Chan.Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":65401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-65400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sgnews","tag-cna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/65401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}