I don't know that it's beneficial to think in terms of languages (at least in terms of programming languages). It's probably better to think in terms of paradi

I don't know that it's beneficial to think in terms of languages (at least in terms of programming languages). It's probably better to think in terms of paradigms. For instance, once I've learned an object-oriented language, I can pretty much learn any of them easily. The same is mostly true for functional programming languages (although some are admittedly more difficult than others). I could imagine natural languages are roughly the same way. For instance, I'd believe that learning another Romance Language would be easier after you've already learned one. Same for different variations of Chinese and Hindi.