From: thanks-to@Taf.com   
      
   Jeroen Belleman wrote:   
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   |"On 1/30/26 21:00, Nioclás Pól Caileán de Ghloucester wrote   
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   |> Bill Sloman  wrote:                                 |   
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   |> |"Languages aren't learned any faster if you learn them young"           ||   
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   N.B. Bill Sloman misused "learned" instead of "learnt". N.B. he   
   misused "it's" instead of "its" (in   
   "Russia has spent the last four years inching it's way   
   into the Ukraine from the borders with Russia,and it has made some progress,   
   but it has been very slow and very expensive"   
   in   
   Message-ID: <10ldbf7$jvt3$1@dont-email.me>   
   ).   
      
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   |"> It is much easier for a child to learn a language than it is for an      |   
   |> old person.                                                               |   
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   |An often repeated myth, entirely untrue."                                   |   
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   Sorry.   
      
   This is not an entirely untrue myth. I simultaneously used to study   
   many more languages as a child than as an adult.   
      
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   |"Adults can learn a new language in much less time than a                   |   
   |child, provided they are motivated and immersed. Those are                  |   
   |the keys, motivation and immersion."                                        |   
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   Motivations and immersion are not sufficient. I used to be an immersed   
   adult with much more meaningful motivations to learn languages as an   
   adult than I used to have as a child. Children do not want to learn   
   languages but they do learn them.   
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