polyglot

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Byatt once described him as “the ironic German par excellence” and an “ideal European — polyglot, polymath, skeptical and humane, with a strong sense of history both good and evil.”

From New York Times

She is a polyglot and a chameleon, precise, erudite, forthright.

From Los Angeles Times

A budding polyglot with a passion for international business, two months into a semester abroad he had been looking forward to for years.

From New York Times

She’s a polyglot with a paralyzing voice, and she produces her music with big vitality and tremendous care — something she proved through sweat and tears Monday, positing her curiosity as tenacity, her meticulousness as virtuosity.

From Washington Post

In the 19th century, this was the Russian Eldorado, a raucous, polyglot city on the make, populated by Greeks, Italians, Tatars, Russians, Turks and Poles.

From New York Times