Well, maybe so, although I don't think I am particularly gifted in languages. In fact, oddly enough, it may have something to do with my being slow at languages.
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I realized very early in life what my abilities and limitations were, and foreign languages was definitely one of my limitations. With strenuous effort, I just barely passed my French class at Harvard so I could graduate.
Also, I think having a musicality about me that helps in identifying different things in languages and getting them right.
It is much easier to learn another language when you are young, enthusiastic and unembarrassed.
I just know so many people who have six or seven foreign languages and have read everything and have musical training and they are still dorks.
Some languages expand not only your ability to speak to different people but what you're able to think.
I am a stupendously fast reader and always have been. I can read in at least three languages fluently and two languages with a little bit more difficulty.
I think it is an inborn talent - just luck. Some people can learn languages; some can throw a ball. Most people have something. My talent is drawing and painting.
I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine.
I was very adept at acquiring languages.
I'm pretty good with languages.