Aspie and Foreign Language Learning?

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It's funny - every few weeks a thread asking this same question comes up, only sometimes it asks if Aspies find it easier to learn a foreign language and other times it asks if Aspies find it harder to learn foreign languages. So I don't know what one is right.

There are a lot of foreign people in my country now, and half of them are good at learning English and half of them aren't, even if they've been over here for a few years. It depends on age, younger people can learn foreign languages much faster than older people, generally.

Personally I am no good at learning foreign languages. I struggled with French and Spanish at school - and Spanish was my special interest for a little while but I was still behind on it!

I used to have French and Spanish lessons whilst at school. Learning both at the same time (we'd have 1 lesson of French, then 2 of Spanish and vice versa in a week) was too confusing.

I started learning sign language and was up to 300 or so signs in a matter of a month and a half. I quickly lost interest due the lack of someone to sign with.

Learning languages is one of the things I am best at. In English class, I was always a straight-A student.

This talent developed into a job - currently I work as a translator and everyone tells me I'm very good at it. I don't even have to think - I just look at the text and it speaks to me, guiding my hand