I always took a fairly opposite view of foreign languages relative to programming languages that you. In my experience, when you learn a programming language, y

I always took a fairly opposite view of foreign languages relative to programming languages that you. In my experience, when you learn a programming language, you want to understand it in as few and as simple terms as possible. So when you see two features, you should look for ways to ask, is their any way these features are really the same thing. With foreign language (and even native English for me) trying to do that will not work. Instead you need to constantly ask, is this an exception to the rules.