The remarkable brain of a carpet cleaner who speaks 24 languages

Re:The remarkable brain of a carpet cleaner who speaks 24 la... by NineStarPoint on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @06:50PM (#30938434)

The skills that make you good at picking up your third+ natural language should be similar to the skills that make you good at picking up your third+ programming language. (With extra programming languages being much easier to pick up than extra natural languages, in my experience)

The guy might struggle with picking up programming to begin with though, it is indeed a completely different thing from human language.

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Re:The remarkable brain of a carpet cleaner who speaks 24 la... by thaumasiotes on Thursday April 07, 2022 @02:52AM (#30941427)

> The skills that make you good at picking up your third+ natural language should be similar to the skills that make you good at picking up your third+ programming language.

The skills involved in picking up a natural language are going out and schmoozing with people who speak that language.

This is not actually a skill set that people who are good at picking up programming languages are known for.

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Re:The remarkable brain of a carpet cleaner who speaks 24 la... by dx034 on Thursday April 07, 2022 @03:02AM (#30941503)

I'm really bad at languages and struggle to learn new languages. Picking up new programming languages is not problem for me though.

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Re:The remarkable brain of a carpet cleaner who speaks 24 la... by elemos on Thursday April 07, 2022 @04:04AM (#30941907)

I also am like this. I have a co-disabilities that makes it near impossible for me to pick up a second language, yet I’m fairly talented at programming and have been paid to write in at least 8 programming languages.

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