I don't think they're similar at all. It's an anecdote and all, but I am terrible at learning foreign languages. Something about the way my brain works. I live

I don't think they're similar at all. It's an anecdote and all, but I am terrible at learning foreign languages. Something about the way my brain works. I lived in France for two years and married a French woman and I still couldn't get by for more than a day or two in that country on my own. Yet I picked up programming pretty quickly and consider myself good at it. I think the best analogy is mathematics, in the sense that you're reasoning about abstract objects and solving puzzles. Unfortunately most people don't think about math that way so it probably doesn't help much.