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Re:The remarkable brain of a carpet cleaner who speaks 24 la... by dismantlethesun on Thursday April 07, 2022 @03:14AM (#30941582)
My natural aptitude for reading programming languages has never helped me out speaking languages. After 20 years, I still only speak 3 words of French. Inability to pronounce or hear certain phonemes is a real phenomenon.
Re:The remarkable brain of a carpet cleaner who speaks 24 la... by frodetb on Thursday April 07, 2022 @05:27AM (#30942388)
According to the input hypothesis of language acquisition, the ability to speak is a function of how much we've already heard/read/taken in, and understood. If you're someone who enjoys reading, and you find that parsing weird syntax comes easy to you, then you're all set for learning a language with something like the refold method[1]. You just gotta put in the possibly staggering amount of hours that it takes.

[1] https://www.refold.la