Many native speakers of Spanish and other languages are also confined to their homes right now. This means there are a lot of multilingual professionals eager to help native English speakers learn. There are a number of sites that facilitate remote, 1-on-1 lessons for many languages. You can get 1:1 teaching for under $10/hour (a bit more if you want somebody with teaching experience - imho not that necessary if you're motivated). Plus it's a great way to socialize. I'm currently using Verbling but there are others. Highly recommended if you're into learning languages but have hit a plateau.
You mean natural languages, not programming ones, right?
ha, I just revealed my status as a non-engineer. Yes, languages. I am trying to improve my Spanish during quarantine downtime.
i think both would be usefull espescially when its time to rebuild.
if you know old programing language and are able to port ancient applications and data structures to a recent language and platform you will be valuable for the rebuilding.
As a grandchild of a holocaust survivor, this was told to me repeatedly.
Greg Fenves, the president of UT Austin tells the story of his dad who sneaked out of Buchenwald and was recognized at a factory using prisoners for slave labor by an SS guard who knew him from the camp. Upon being asked what he was doing there (being too young for normal labor selection) he on the fly responded that that Buchenwald had thought the factory would need an interpreter
Like by learning Spanish in addition to English, you can flee to Mexico if the UK isn't taking immigrants?