<p>My wife is from Singapore and worked in a job with wide exposure to different languages that was probably a natural for her. I was teaching the kids spanish one evening and realized that she was picking it up by just listening. The kids went through 8 years of chinese language schools. I’ve tried several times to learn Chinese to no avail.</p>
<p>I’m just quite happy playing around with machine language and assembler these days. Mostly just raw power and brute force.</p>