lin·guist
noun/ˈlɪŋɡwɪst/
/ˈlɪŋɡwɪst/
- a person who knows several foreign languages well
通晓数国语言的人 - She's an excellent linguist.
她精通数国语言。 - I'm afraid I'm no linguist (= I find foreign languages difficult).
对不起，我不懂外语。
- She's an excellent linguist.
- a person who studies languages or linguistics
语言学家 - a computational linguist
计算语言学家
- a computational linguist
Word Originlate 16th cent.: from Latin lingua ‘language’ + -ist.