"I started to realize, a lot of times if you go into your memory, your sense memory, you know more than you think you do, from having watched and listened."

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Hyperpolyglots are not born, and they are not made, but they are born to be made. There is a finite subset of the human population which has the right neurological equipment for learning and using lots of languages. That equipment may serve only a sub-component of language learning, such as mimicry, pattern recognition, or memory, or it serves those sub-components in a global fashion.

— Michael Erard