Alexander Arguelles

Infobox Celebrity
name =Alexander Arguelles


image_size =
caption =
birth_date =Birth year and age|1964
birth_place =
death_date =
death_place =
occupation =Professor of Linguistics, polyglot, and author
spouse =
children =
Web site =http://www.foreignlanguageexpertise.com/about.html
footnotes =

Biography and language learning

Professor Alexander Arguelles was born in 1964 into an exclusively English-speaking American household.Fact|date=August 2008 However, he lived in various parts of Europe during his earliest years, and throughout his childhood. Furthermore, his father is a scholarly polyglot whose shelves are filled with books in many different tongues.Fact|date=August 2008

Dr. Arguelles obtained his B.A. from Columbia University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He earned his B.A. in comparative literature in 1986 and his Ph.D. in the comparative history of religions in 1994. He was a post-doctoral research fellow at the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Scholarship.

A Professor of Linguistics, he spent nearly a decade in Korea following a monk-like life styleFact|date=August 2008, while he dedicated his time to studying Korean, Classical Chinese and Japanese in a comparative context, as he taught at the Handong University. Following his marriage and the completion of the Korean studies, Arguelles relocated to Lebanon, where he resided studying Arabic and teaching Linguistics at the American University of Science and Technology in Beirut, until in July of 2006 he and his family were forced to flee Lebanon due to the war.

Dr. Arguelles has co-written and published a number of books in his field. He teaches linguistics in California. In his spare time he moderates a language forum on the internet and continues to write. He is also working on a plan of creating a private academy for training polyglots.

Languages Dr. Arguelles speaks

Dr. Arguelles has knowledge of more than 34 languages, including Korean, Russian, and Arabic. Fact|date=August 2008

Language study materials and methodology

[I] Dr. Arguelles’ Review of Languages:
* [German: http://youtube.com/watch?v=xbcaCEFB0ZU&feature=related]
* [Old High German: http://youtube.com/watch?v=wC_BTrC_uNU]
* [Middle High German: http://youtube.com/watch?v=UcFBsR5kjeI]
* [Danish: http://youtube.com/watch?v=k8q7LVy8xHM]
* [Dutch: http://youtube.com/watch?v=zbGEWBzoSjA&feature=related]
* [Middle Dutch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-ehAeZRO7M]
* [Afrikaans: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Kv-CzFy8yxM&feature=related]
* [Frisian: http://youtube.com/watch?v=MwiFZwPwDzA]
* [Faroese: http://youtube.com/watch?v=nMgp400cnpU]
* [Icelandic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_b9V_gbUNw]
* [Old Norse: http://youtube.com/watch?v=1S7b1eDTnK8&feature=user]
* [Swedish: http://youtube.com/watch?v=w8gXxGAvsto&feature=user]
* [Norwegian Nynorsk: http://youtube.com/watch?v=syMfLIj2fl4]
* [Norwegian Bokmål: http://youtube.com/watch?v=9Lgmvd9NCwk]
* [Gothic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkKrS5yOPFI]
* [Old English: http://youtube.com/watch?v=RLJGTYkEKLI&feature=user]
* [Middle English: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrnXgVTTrCI&feature=email]

[II] Dr. Arguelles’ Review of Language Study Materials:
* [Assimil: http://youtube.com/watch?v=XLvTEqXqlsI&feature=related]
* [Linguaphone: http://youtube.com/watch?v=ujRgmG0uAqE&feature=related]
* [Teach Yourself Series: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Kv-CzFy8yxM&feature=related]
* [Colloquial Series: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Cqi842UTO0w]
* [Hugo’s Series: http://youtube.com/watch?v=6dBhWvC8zEU]
* [FSI (Barron's): http://youtube.com/watch?v=Spch3XAQhh8]
* [SLS Spoken Language Services: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TNQFrYmGHg]
* [Living Language: http://youtube.com/watch?v=vRWIheSDaw0&feature=user]
* [Berlitz http://youtube.com/watch?v=vpE-7j4htH4]
* [Dunwoody Press (African & Asiatic languages): http://youtube.com/watch?v=pDrUa3sw2vc]
* [Cortina Institute Method: http://youtube.com/watch?v=wP0S15g6K-Q]
* [CIIL – Central Institute for Indian Languages: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjgUvuuzcJs&feature=user]
* [Buske Publisher materials: http://youtube.com/watch?v=5NVcCERZ9NQ]
* [Passport: http://youtube.com/watch?v=cCWWiF9SIVA]
* [Made Simple: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVMa2iFW7-Q&feature=email]
* [Langenscheidt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCCgQgV2qeo]
* [Kauderwelsch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpXpAdv8Bkg&feature=user]

[III] Dr. Arguelles’ Demonstration of His Language Study Methodologies:
* [Shadowing: http://youtube.com/watch?v=VdheWK7u11w&feature=related]
* [Scriptorium / Read-Write: http://youtube.com/watch?v=z7FztiCcvl0&feature=related]

Books by Dr. Arguelles

*"North Korean Reader " (2008)
* Korean Newspaper Reader" (293 pages, Dunwoody Press, 2007) ISBN 978-1-931546-37-9
*" English French Spanish German Dictionary" (735 pages, Librairie du Liban, 2006) ISBN 9953-86-056-4
*"A Handbook of Korean Verbal Conjugation" (Co-author: Jonrok Kim, 311 pages, Dunwoody Press, 2004) ISBN 1-931546-03-7
*"A Historical Literary and Cultural Approach to the Korean Language" (Co-author: Jonrok Kim, 318 pages, Hollym, 2000) ISBN: 1-56591-151-2
*"프랑스어 동사변화안내 La Conjugaison des Verbes" (345 pages, 신아사, 1999) ISBN: 89-3896-066-3
*"Viking Dreams: Mythological and Religious Dream Symbolism in the Old Norse Sagas" (460 pages, University of Chicago Doctoral Dissertation, 1994. UMI Dissertation Services Order Number: 9425353 www.umi.com)

External links

* [http://www.foreignlanguageexpertise.com/about.html Dr. Alexander Arguelles’ web site]
* [http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_topics.asp?FID=20&PN=3 How-To-Learn-Any-Language forum]