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[email protected] · January 11th 17, 03:11 PM posted to uk.transport.london

On Wed, 11 Jan 2017 15:50:46 +0000
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 15:24:11 on Wed, 11 Jan
2017, d remarked:

Some people are just no good at learning foreign languages

after 200 hours (and that is a lot) of lessons I was still finding spoken
German incomprehensible

To be fair I found german hard too. French was a lot easier and I managed to
get myself up to a basic conversational level just by teaching myself on the
tube ride in the mornings. Perhaps you should have picked a different country
to live in?

Difficulty in picking up foreign languages (or even English when an
infant) is one of the classic symptoms of even high-functioning autism
sufferers.

I think thats a bit unfair. Some people are just bad at languages in the way
that others just don't get maths no matter how much effort they put in.

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Spud