He graduated magna cum laude from Yale Univ.īerlitz was a writer on anomalous phenomena. He left the company in the late 1960s, not long after he sold the company to publishing firm Crowell, Collier & Macmillan. He also played a key role in developing record & tape language courses. The publishing house, of which he was vice president, sold, among other things, tourist phrase books & pocket dictionaries, several of which he authored. He began working for the family's Berlitz School of Languages, during college breaks. His father spoke to him in German, his grandfather in Russian, his nanny in Spanish. In adulthood, he recalled having had the delusion that every human spoke a different language, & wondering why he didn't have his own like everyone else. He reached adolescence speaking eight languages fluently. As a child, Charles was raised in a household in which (by father's orders) every relative & servant spoke to Charles in a different language. Born in NYC, Berlitz was the grandson of Maximilien Berlitz, who founded the Berlitz Language Schools.
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