One thing that programmers and other technical people have in their favour when learning languages is the ability to defer deeper understanding of concepts. Whi

One thing that programmers and other technical people have in their favour when learning languages is the ability to defer deeper understanding of concepts. While taking in the overview of new languages we need to accept that we won't understand all the inner workings immediately. We do this everytime we learn new technologies on the job, developing deeper knowledge once we have some rough working knowledge. This can be really productive for languages since you can get a rough working knowledge going earlier and begin the positive feedback loop of listening, speaking and improving. I've seen a lot of really smart people struggle in languages classes because they want to fully grok a concept and really focus on it before moving on, which holds them back.