(August 25, 2019 at 3:38 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: I know a person whose linguistic ability was such that from a basis of zero knowledge in Japanese, he was able to master it to the point of writing a scholarly paper and then chair a symposium in japanese, all in less than 6 weeks. During these weeks he neither slack in his day job nor shafted his family or normal leisure activities, such as reading a novel in his native Portuguese.
That's crazy.
A friend of mine (Well I say friend, but we only talk maybe a few times a year. Mostly because she's in another country) can speak over twenty languages fluently. But she definitely takes a bit longer than 6 weeks to master a language.
I'm always impressed at what some people can do with languages.
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