Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedVaughn Smith: belief
7 Sept 2022 Conversations with Tyler Vaughn Smith on Life as a Hyperpolyglot
“I agree with that second possibility. There are people that have the capacity, but they just don’t live in a place where they’re exposed to other languages, and they might not participate in active language learning to the degree that I have or that other hyperpolyglots have.”
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- Vaughn Smith
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- belief
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- 7 Sept 2022
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- Conversations with Tyler
Transcript context
…Is it your intuition that everyone who has that skill learns it and does it? Or is there some expanse of people out there who could do it, but somehow have never been attuned to it? I agree with that second possibility. There are people that have the capacity, but they just don’t live in a place where they’re exposed to other languages, and they might not participate in active language learning to the degree that I have or that other hyperpolyglots have. They might use superior memory capabilities for other things. How does language retention differ from language acquisition, or is it just the same? Do you have to maintain languages, or they just stick with you?…
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