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A person who knows many foreign languages

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A person who knows many foreign languages

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Correct Answer: Option A
One word substitution is Linguist.

Linguist: a person skilled in foreign languages.
Grammarian: a person who studies and writes about grammar.
Polyglot: knowing or using several languages.
Bilingual: speaking two languages fluently.
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Kishan Gopal
Kishan Gopal 7 years ago
Linguist is one who is skilled in foreign languages. Polyglot is one knowing several languages. There may be chances of of a polyglot knowing several native language but no foreign language. Hence correct answer is Linguist.
Dhaval Purohit
Dhaval Purohit 7 years ago
right answer is polyglot. Linguist means someone who teaches or studies linguistics
Arpu Kat
Arpu Kat 7 years ago
A person who studies language of different kinds is a linguist
But a person who knows to speak various language is a polygot
So what does know mean? Knowing to speak i persume so the answere is polygot

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Abhishek Nahar
Abhishek Nahar 8 years ago
Person who knows many languages is polyglot..but if he also knows foreign language then he is linguist.
Ayas Hazra
Ayas Hazra 9 years ago
wrong answer..
Rohit Verma
Rohit Verma 9 years ago
what is the diffrence between polyglot and linguist?
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