Frontmatter -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Multilingualism: Emic and etic perspectives -- Chapter 2 A long, adventurous road to (im)perfection -- Chapter 3 Multilingualism as a kaleidoscopic experience: The mini universes within -- Chapter 4 My ways to Rome: Routes to multilingualism -- Chapter 5 Incomplete journeys: A quest for multilingualism -- Chapter 6 The joys and pitfalls of multiple language acquisition: The workings of the mind of a simultaneous multilingual -- Chapter 7 A life of learning languages -- Chapter 8 Linguistic cunning: From Burton to babelfish -- Chapter 9 A "new breed" of American? -- Chapter 10 Where art and nature meet -- Chapter 11 A multilingual journey from East to West -- Chapter 12 Roots, branches and seeds -- Chapter 13 Expanding languages, expanding worlds -- Chapter 14 The well and the bucket: The emic and etic perspectives combined -- Backmatter