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Re:Relating natural language aptitude to differences in lear... by throwawaybbb on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @06:21AM (#22482822)
I had a great-grandmother from rural Moldova. She spoke Vlach, Bulgarian and Russian.

Speaking three languages is not a big deal when you live in a village where everyone else speaks them.

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Re:Relating natural language aptitude to differences in lear... by throwaway468883 on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @08:13AM (#22483435)
Apologies, I'll amend my previous comment.

>You haven't met many Europeans have you. Not all of them are Dutch, Scandinavian, urban youth, immigrants or throwawaybbb's great-grand-mother.

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Re:Relating natural language aptitude to differences in lear... by throwawaybbb on Friday March 06, 2020 @06:45PM (#22508466)
My grandmother knew 6 languages.
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