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@laskern
I have heard that story
I was exempt from taking a foreign language in college because of my scores on both the Hebrew and Latin Achievement tests.
My father Z”L was a linguist by hobby. He read, wrote and spoke 18 languages. My mother A”L was a Classics major who only had fluency in 12 languages (very unusual for 4th generation Americans.
The children in my family were not permitted to take modern languages in school, we had to take classics: Hebrew, Latin, Ancient Greek. Parents felt with that background we could pick up modern languages by ear. I’m quite good at most Romance languages and Germanic tongues. Right now I’m struggling to learn Mandarin Chinese