Thread:Arima no megane/@comment-25787298-20160513113337/@comment-27247962-20160603191854

I think it's purely the access you have to other languages in your own country and ofcourse if there's more then one spoken language in your country. That should be the 2 things that have the biggest effect on learning 5 languages in practically your childhood alone. We have french, dutch, little german and english in ours. That already makes 4 languages that you are likely to encounter here. I can add Latin to that, which might not be considered as a language anymore, but knowing Latin helps you learn or recognize words in other languages more easily add to the mix that you learned 4 other languages in school, that makes you at least a bit capable with languages and learning them efficiently if you need to learn a new one.

A country where there's only one spoken language and you need to learn English purely from the internet and conversing with people online, then I presume it's gonna take you awhile. But even then some people learn it impressively fast.

So my conclusion is that it's partially in your genetic make-up and because of inheritence some people have a better aptitude for languages.