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> Could they understand a complex news story about economics and finance in all those languages? Read a novel? Write an essay on a complex topic? Those skills
by bunderbunder 8y ago
> Could they understand a complex news story about economics and finance in all those languages? Read a novel? Write an essay on a complex topic?
Those skills can't even be assumed in native speakers.
For example: https://nces.ed.gov/naal/ https://nces.ed.gov/naal/
- kazinator 8y agoThey can be assumed in high IQ native speakers, though. These hyperpolyglots are supposed to be high IQ. If you have a high IQ, but look like a low IQ illiterate in a dozen additional languages, then I'm afraid you're a phonyglot. This is because there are ideas that you can think but cannot say in those non-native languages; and if someone else were to say those things for you, you wouldn't understand what they are saying.
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