Musings (inspired by the book Babel No More: The Search for the World’s Most Extraordinary Language Learners) about how we learn foreign languages and why some people seem to be able to learn so many more than others, like up to about 50!: http://www.economist.com/node/21542170
P.S., The comments following the article are just as interesting, IMHO. ... Hmmm ... do texting abbreviations count as a separate language?
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