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Daniel M. Tucker

Daniel Tucker is a student of Romance languages and linguistics who attends the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Though his primary academic interests lie in Romance languages and second language acquisition, his profound interest in polyglottery is clearly evident in his research and writings.

Academic Beginnings

Tucker began his career as an undergraduate at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois. Though his initial intention was to focus on a career involving pure mathematics and physics, Tucker abandoned his keen interest in mathematics to pursue language studies in 2007. His preliminary studies involved the Spanish language, though by the fall semester of 2007 he had diverged to the concurrent study of German, Chinese and Spanish. After completing a year of intensive foreign language study, Tucker relocated to the State University of New York at Binghamton where he spent on semester in intensive, secluded study involving linguistics, French, German, Spanish and Chinese. He would later abandon the study of Chinese to delve deeper into Indo-European language studies. Upon returning to the Midwest, Tucker returned to the study of Spanish and German while intensively studying Portuguese. The academic year of 2009 would see the addition of Latin and Italian to Tucker's dossier of language studies. During his final semester at Eastern Illinois University, Tucker completed his undergraduate thesis in Spanish while also conducting research in German.

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