Get to know Carolina junior Luke Elliott, an 'octolingual' who speaks eight languages. The rising junior from Hickory, North Carolina, speaks eight languages, and he is continuing to learn new ones as a Tar Heel.

His first language is English but he is also fluent in Spanish, Portuguese and Italian. Elliott says he is an intermediate speaker of German and Russian and is conversational in Norwegian and Dutch. He has started to learn Swahili and Irish.