My ability with languages is just something I have. It's some idiosyncratic property of my brain, and it has nothing to do with intelligence. And, there's no real collaboration between that and the study of linguistics. A linguist is interested in how grammar works and you don't have to be bilingual to do that. I'm interested in how the mind works.
Language is a human's most salient quality.
It's like a little black box in the mind somewhere. Learning language is not like memorizing facts. It's this other independent region of your mind. For now, de Lorenzo sees his graduate studies leading to a thesis on refugee elections in Africa. He also may pursue a second bachelor's degree in philosophy and theology at Oxford.