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Letters sets out the challenges confronting anyone wishing to properly learn a foreign language. He disputes the claims made for Cardinal Giuseppe Mezzofanti (1774 - 1849), who was reputed to speak thirty-eight languages perfectly, including fifty dialects of these languages, as well as speaking another thirty imperfectly.
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