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My taxi driver in Mexico spoke perfect English. I figured he was either American or had lived here. He said he learned the language watching YouTube videos and
by codazoda 3y ago
My taxi driver in Mexico spoke perfect English. I figured he was either American or had lived here. He said he learned the language watching YouTube videos and had never been.
- tetris11 3y agoMy uncle learned Russian by just watching the news in the evenings when he was a student there during the USSR
- spacecadet 3y agohaha I had a friend in high school, his dad worked at a local store as a clerk, but spoke multiple languages in what appeared to be "fluency", but I was young... anyways, he found this book at a yard sale "Russian by pictures", a year later he is throwing around full Russian sentences...
- brianwawok 3y agoSome people are just magic at learning languages. 2 vs 10 isn’t that much more work. Always seemed wild to me as I struggled with Spanglish.
- rtkwe 3y agoThat's the main place he learned it but he was also interacting with people in Russian constantly which is what people upthread were saying makes the leap from being able to passably read to conversational and then on to fluency.