The Remarkable Library of a 62 Language Polyglot (Vaughn Smith)

📦 Bonus Resources: https://timothykenny.com/lp/vaughn-sm... 📚 Polyglot Course: https://timothykenny.com/lp/polyglot-... 🐦‍🔥 Renaissance Program: https://timothykenny.com/lp/renaissan... 🎓 Self-Directed Learner Course: https://timothykenny.com/lp/self-dire... 🚞 Course Catalog: https://timothykenny.com/lp/education... 1. Enter the 🎁 book giveaway 2. Download all the high resolution photos 🖼️ of Vaughn's library 3. Get the 📗 Google Spreadsheet of Additional Resources about Vaughn 4. Download the 📕 Book of Collected Advice from 55 hours of bookshelf tours 5. Get the Google Spreadsheet of Classical Works 📚️ resources ⭐ Watch More of my Bookshelf Tours (Playlist):    • Bookshelf Tour of The Largest Home Library...   📚 Playlist of Bookshelf Tours Featuring the Loeb Classical Library:    • Video   📗 Watch my 3h In-person Tour of Harvard University Press:    • Tour of Harvard University Press (Loeb Cla...   🟥 Watch The Bookshelf Tour with Greg of Reddit, who has the complete Loeb Classical Library:    • Bookshelf Tour of The Largest Home Library...   📺 Vaughn on Youtube:    / @themultiglot   📸 Vaughn on Instagram:   / themultiglot   📧 Vaughn's Email Address: [email protected] Please email 📩 [email protected] if you'd like to give me a tour of your library for a future video. #bookshelftour 🔖 Priority Timestamps: For Dream Job and Documentary details, see: 9:13:05 - Dream Job 9:21:12 - Documentary 🔖 Timestamps: 12:01 High-level overview of Vaughn’s shelves 12:38 Bookshelf 1: Vaughn’s primary language-learning shelf 13:18 Bookshelf 2: travel, maps, sketchbooks, and other interests 13:48 Bookshelves 3 and 4: overflow books and older dictionaries 15:08 Bookshelf 5: Olly Richards short stories and overflow books 15:29 ⭐ Section on rare language-learning treasures ⭐ 15:46 Classic Nahuatl cartoon course, 15-volume set 16:33 SAS Survival Guide - John “Lofty” Wiseman 17:05 Language, travel, camping, and nature 17:46 Berlitz, Langenscheidt, Croatian, and Czech gift books 19:08 Barron’s Russian Idioms and the Barron’s language series 19:51 Vaughn’s car-books habit and portable study routine 21:12 Olly Richards short stories and 50 Swedish Coffee Breaks 22:29 The backpack full of books from the Washington Post photo 23:17 How Vaughn organizes books by chronology, size, and series 24:37 Phrasebooks, dictionaries, and books kept in the car 25:06 Reading phrasebooks page by page 25:19 Japanese phrasebook kept in a 1995 Subaru Legacy 26:08 Order and grouping on the phrasebook shelf 27:11 Chronology of Vaughn’s early language books 27:37 Teach Yourself black-spine books from the early 1990s 28:25 Colloquial Estonian, Vietnamese, and Latvian 28:36 Vaughn’s school chronology: Alice Deal, Wilson, Gaithersburg 30:12 Early German, Russian, Finnish, and Bulgarian-Turkish books 31:00 Victor Kamkin Bookstore in Rockville 31:20 Kamkin Bookstore, Soviet books, and Cold War-era publishing 32:53 Foreign-language bookstores in Washington, D.C. 33:41 Washington Post language list and pronunciation corrections 35:14 Foreign newspapers, Crocodile, and Soviet/Yugoslav periodicals 36:39 Vaughn’s car-book categories: short stories and phrasebooks 37:22 Duolingo, Welsh, and Vaughn’s 600-day streak 38:36 Losing a 700-day Duolingo streak in the Finnish wilderness 39:18 Vaughn’s guitar and musical instruments 41:59 Accordion, Russian music, and keyboard accordion traditions 42:38 Vaughn as a “polyglot of music” 43:58 Upbringing, bilingualism, and freedom to explore 47:22 Parents, academic pressure, and self-directed learning 49:34 Vaughn’s mother, French, Mexico, and Serge Gainsbourg 51:17 Vaughn’s parents’ backgrounds and the family carpet business 53:23 Vaughn’s father, chemistry, electrical engineering, and practical skills 55:16 Vaughn’s father’s German phrases and early German influence 56:32 📕First Nations and Indigenous Languages Shelf📕 56:32 Cherokee ancestry and Vaughn’s indigenous-language interests 58:04 Cherokee books, apps, and the Cherokee language 59:40 Vaughn’s Nahuatl journey begins in 1995 Timestamps continued under pinned comment