Richard Simcott

Richard Simcott (born ) is a British polyglot who lives in Skopje, North Macedonia. Described by HarperCollins as "One of the most multilingual people from the United Kingdom", he speaks at least 30 languages.

Simcott was a production manager for E-moderation and the languages director for Polpeo, a tool that simulates on-line communication crises. He is the current head of the international Polyglot Conference.

Early life and background Originally from Chester, which he established in 2013, after meeting another polyglot and YouTuber, Luca Lampariello, in Poznań, Poland.

Simcott was interviewed by 16×9 for a short television programme about polyglots. He runs his own blog "Speaking Fluently" and has published a book on French Short Stories. In 2015, the Goethe Institut named him Ambassador for Multilingualism. though regularly speaks around 30 languages in total. He speaks English, Macedonian, French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Welsh, Italian, Portuguese, Catalan, Swedish, Romanian, Czech, Russian, Serbian, Serbo-Croatian, Bulgarian, Albanian, Bosnian, Esperanto, Greek, Turkish, Polish, Hebrew, Chinese, Thai, Icelandic, Arabic, Maltese, and Estonian. He is often mistaken for a native speaker in Macedonian, French, German, Dutch and Spanish.

Simcott continues to study languages in a university environment, which differs from other polyglots. In the 2020s he has been learning Korean, Northern Sámi, Scots, Irish, and Cornish.