How can Everett start speaking a new language from scratch, without teachers or translations or even knowing what language he’s learning, in half an hour, when most of us struggle to do the same after years of high school Spanish classes? What enables Everett to pick up vocabulary, decode grammar, and pronunciation so much faster than you or I, even with all those additional constraints? Is he a linguistic genius, or is there something else going on?
1: To say he's learnt Hmong is questionable. He's begun to analyse it, that's a different skill
2: He's quite obviously a linguist, idiot. This is not an unusual method for linguistic study
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