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slickback9001 t1_j4hktfo wrote

Reply to comment by 5slipsandagully in What it means to “know” a language by thenousman

Sounds like you’re confusing your own personal experience with fact. It’s not that hard to keep learning a language as an adult. People do it all the time every day

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purplestgiraffe t1_j4icrw4 wrote

Agreed. My father began studying Russian when he was in his early 50s, and got conversational (to the point his Russian friends and tutors kept insisting he was fluent, despite him not being confident enough in it to feel like he was) in just a few years. It’s ludicrous to suggest there comes an age where your brain just shuts off language acquisition forever.

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