> Its similar to how high verbal IQ people can easily master multiple languages, but normal people are only good at their main language.
Let me guess: You are American?
That is very much not true. Go to the Netherlands, for example. Pretty much everybody under 50 speaks very good English. You don’t have to have a high verbal IQ, or be somehow abnormal to become good at a non-native language.
I guess the fact that Dutch and English are pretty closely related helps a lot here. There are definitely people who have trouble learning a language that is from a completely different family (it doesn't even have to be Chinese, try Finnish or Hungarian).
Let me guess: You are American?
That is very much not true. Go to the Netherlands, for example. Pretty much everybody under 50 speaks very good English. You don’t have to have a high verbal IQ, or be somehow abnormal to become good at a non-native language.