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I'm also multilingual and can confirm that at least some aspects of the languages mentioned that I know, are accurate.

For a few years I was also a language teacher and this article explains one of the things students have problems understanding.

Indeed, but it’s not because they “experience time” differently, it’s because they express time differently.

Is it possible to know how another person experiences time? Or anything, for that matter?

By inference, I'd say yes.

I think that's what the entire article is about. Like, the whole point of it.

Which languages do you speak, are they closely related?

It seems that the effect is heightened when the languages are in different families, or at least have different grammatical structures.

In some other articles on the subject, I've read on effects based on whether a language uses grammatical gender or not. For example children assigning voices to the Sun and Moon in English vs Spanish - in Spanish the voice given would almost always follow the grammatical gender, in English it would be randomly selected.

Not exactly mind blowing, but measurable.

I am multilingual too, and I am quite amused about all the magical superpowers monolingual people ascribe to us. Heh.