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Originally Posted by ploesj
it really seems to depend on where you are born: people living in a country that speaks a language known in the whole world won't easily learn a second one.
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absolutely. If I had actively learned all the languages I was given opportunity to learn throughout my childhood/adolesence, I could
theoretically be speaking fluently in english, indonesian, arabic, japanese, chinese-mandarin, spanish, and french. Instead, because I've never HAD to learn, it's all just tid bits.