Let me give you another tiny sample group for the study. Indians! I started learning Hindi, English and Bengali when I was four. Most of my fellow citizens(mid

Let me give you another tiny sample group for the study. Indians! I started learning Hindi, English and Bengali when I was four. Most of my fellow citizens(middle class) were in the same boat because there are 22 official languages here in India. After college I moved to South India, where there is another myriad family of completely different languages. I can barely keep up with them. Does it improve or harms my ability to learn new programming languages? Personally, no. Generally, well the answer to that question lies in the high quality programming services provided by Indians well recorded by thousands of forums across the web :). So, no I don't think the comparison has any merit. Edit: The no. of official languages is now 22.