From: bill.sloman@ieee.org
On 31/01/2026 9:52 am, Nioclás Pól Caileán de Ghloucester wrote:
> Jeroen Belleman 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".
It's not a misuse, merely a regional variant.
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"
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I didn't actually misuse "it's" - I just made a typo. I actually re-read
the text I post here to catch that sort of typo, but I read too fast to
be a particularly good proof-reader. I edit the local quarterly IEEE
new-letter, but there a Greek national on the local IEEE committee who
does a much better job as a proof-reader than I can manage
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> |"> It is much easier for a child to learn a language than it is for an
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> |An often repeated myth, entirely untrue."
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> Sorry.
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> This is not an entirely untrue myth. I simultaneously used to study
> many more languages as a child than as an adult.
Many Dutch kids learn French, German and English from an early age.
Lots of Belgians are raised as French/Dutch bilinguals.
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> |"Adults can learn a new language in much less time than a
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> |child, provided they are motivated and immersed. Those are
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> |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.
They don't want to learn any language as such, but they do want to
communicate with their playmates. One of my wife's (American) colleagues
spent six months in Britainy, and and his kids learned Breton.
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