I now know I know two people who are able to speak languages they can't speak...

[conuly]

That's a savant skill, right? Picking up a language within a very short amount of time, even if later you can't remember how you spoke it, that sort of thing?

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[prezzey.livejournal.com]

Do formal languages count? Did that with Turbo Pascal in high school. :D I didn't attend CS classes since they told me at the beginning they'd be about Word, Excel, that sort of thing. And when I went in for the exam, I was faced with writing a database program in Turbo Pascal. I was the first one to finish it in the whole class, I couldn't say how my code worked, the teacher looked at my source and concluded this wouldn't work, but he tried it out and... well, it did.

But I'd rather not do it again! I thought my heart would literally stop when I heard what the exam would be about. I knew about as much as "writeln" about Pascal, and all my programming "expertise" consisted of was BASIC.

[prezzey.livejournal.com]

Do formal languages count? Did that with Turbo Pascal in high school. :D I didn't attend CS classes since they told me at the beginning they'd be about Word, Excel, that sort of thing. And when I went in for the exam, I was faced with writing a database program in Turbo Pascal. I was the first one to finish it in the whole class, I couldn't say how my code worked, the teacher looked at my source and concluded this wouldn't work, but he tried it out and... well, it did.

But I'd rather not do it again! I thought my heart would literally stop when I heard what the exam would be about. I knew about as much as "writeln" about Pascal, and all my programming "expertise" consisted of was BASIC.