Do you want to quickly learn a new programming language while still having a fairly good knowledge of another, such as Ruby?
After reading the official documentation and the book recommended by the community, I would advise you look at comparison lists of how something can be done in a language that you know and how it is done in another language that you are trying to learn.

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Carney busts out Japanese in 1st visit with PM Takaichi

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Ioannis Ikonomou is a Greek translator who has been working for the European Commission
He knows 32 living languages including Greek, English, German, Italian, Spanish, French, Finnish, Danish, Russian, Swahili, Hebrew, Arabic, Mandarin and Bengali, and reportedly as many as 47 languages including dead languages !
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Did you know?

Korean and Japanese share a huge amount of grammatical structure β€” both are SOV (Subject-Object-Verb) languages with agglutinative grammar and similar honorific systems.

That's why Korean speakers often find Japanese grammar intuitive, even though the vocabularies are completely different.

Genetics of language is fascinating.

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Untranslatable word of the day:

πŸ‡΅πŸ‡Ή Saudade
A Portuguese word describing a deep emotional longing for something or someone you may never experience again β€” tinged with the knowledge that it might be gone forever.

It's sadness, nostalgia, and love all braided together.

No English word comes close.

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Language learning tip:

Consistency beats intensity. Every time.

15 minutes a day for a year will get you further than 8-hour cramming sessions once a week.

Your brain needs repetition spaced over time to move vocabulary from short-term to long-term memory. Volume doesn't replace spacing.

Small daily habits compound into fluency. [PL]

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The #1 mistake language learners make? Memorizing words instead of practicing conversations. You can know 1000 words and still freeze.

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Untranslatable word of the day:

πŸ‡¬πŸ‡ͺ Shemomedjamo (შემომეჭამა) β€” Georgian
"I accidentally ate the whole thing."

It's not "I overate." It's specifically the experience of eating something while not paying attention and suddenly realising it's all gone.

Georgian is a linguistic treasure chest.

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Untranslatable word of the day:

πŸ‡―πŸ‡΅ 積んθͺ­ (tsundoku)
The act of buying books and letting them pile up, unread β€” fully intending to read them someday.

Every language nerd I know lives in a state of permanent tsundoku.

No shame. Just a beautiful word for a universal habit.

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Language learning tip:

The fastest way to stop mentally translating:

Immerse before you feel ready. Watch a show in your target language β€” no subtitles β€” for 10 minutes a day.

Your brain will start pattern-matching from audio alone, faster than any textbook exercise. It's uncomfortable at first. That discomfort is the learning.

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