>>41249558Learning a language is normally born out of necessity rather than intelligence. Unless someone has some kind of gift for languages, those speak more than one eitheir do because they live or do business in a place where it's necessary, or because they are otherwise forced to learn it. Your brain goes to the path of least resistance: learning a language by yourself without strong reasons is fighthing against yourself. It's no wonder that native English speakers have a hard time to learn anything else.
Self-studying a language is an incredibly difficult thing to do, especially if your objective is to become fluent in it, rather than just "speak it" like a tourist.
Just imagine someone telling you that they want to become a mathematician purely by self-studying because they like or are interested in maths. Not only that, they tell you that they want to achieve a "university level" of mastery in the field, just by doing 30 minutes reps per day. That would be insane. Yet, this would likely still be easier than achieving basic mastery in a foreign language by yourself that way, especially when that language is far removed from whatever native language you speak.
Could you imagine yourself reading a newspaper article you never read before or watch a news report you never heard before, understand it, convey its content to someone else, then discuss it with them while formulating new ideas about it, all in a foreign language? How many years would it take for you to do that? And more importantly, do people who pretend to speak multiple languages online actually manage such low level of mastery?
The difficulty of language learning (outside of necessity) is often forgotten because of obvious pseudo polyglots on youtube, or retarded redditors who pretend they learned the nihongo using duolingo.
People like Kiara are anomalies, not the norm, Anon.
