Review:
Eye-opening and thoroughly entertaining. [Dorren] is wonderful company: chatty, informative, enthusiastic. (Laura Freeman The Times 2018-11-17);

Hugely readable. Dorren is both an intimidatingly gifted linguist and a wonderfully eloquent writer. You couldn't wish for a better guide to the wonders of the world's bewildering array of tongues. (Simon Griffith Mail on Sunday 2018-10-14);

Gaston Dorren's punchy book gives us a fascinating insight into what we're missing out on in the linguistic jungle. I loved this book (Irish Independent);


Praise for Lingo:

The depth and breadth of Dorren's understanding and knowledge are awesome.

(The Times)

Dorren's tour of the continent is a richly diverting exercise. He has something interesting to point out about nearly every topic. brilliant. (Guardian);

A new approach to understanding the world. ideal for any cunning linguist (Wanderlust);

Full of odd linguistic facts. fascinating (Times Literary Supplement) /
Book Description:
A quirky language-lovers tour of the twenty most-spoken languages in the world - what puts them a cut above the other six thousand? /

About the Author:
Gaston Dorren is the author of Lingo, a book on European languages that, as the Telegraph put it, is 'both genuinely interesting and enormous fun [with his] impressive ability to flip with ease from jokes and surprising facts to the discussion of complex linguistic ideas'. He is a regular contributor to the popular linguistics magazine Onze Taal, and edits the Language Writer blog. A true polyglot, Gaston speaks Dutch, Limburgish, English, German and Spanish, and reads French, Afrikaans, Frisian, Portuguese, Italian, Catalan, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Luxembourgish and Esperanto. While writing Babel, he also tried to learn Vietnamese. - from Amzon