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Re:Babies and Young Children Learn to Understand Language by antihipocrat on Friday June 21, 2024 @07:17AM (#40748327)
The US state department has some estimates of time to become proficient in target languages for English speakers. Germanic and Latin based languages take the least amount of effort:

https://www.state.gov/foreign-language-training/

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Re:Babies and Young Children Learn to Understand Language by wvh on Friday June 21, 2024 @12:17PM (#40751029)
Interesting link. Some of those estimates are very, very optimistic though...
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Re:Babies and Young Children Learn to Understand Language by antihipocrat on Friday June 21, 2024 @04:51PM (#40753678)
It helps that staff are participating in these programs full-time, no other duties required.

A story I've heard first hand is that after the program, department staff can discuss diplomacy in the target language, but struggled to order a coffee!

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