From: jeroen@nospam.please   
      
   On 1/31/26 16:34, john larkin wrote:   
   > On Sat, 31 Jan 2026 11:21:44 +0100, Jeroen Belleman   
   >  wrote:   
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   >> On 1/31/26 00:53, john larkin wrote:   
   >>> On Fri, 30 Jan 2026 22:49:12 +0100, Jeroen Belleman   
   >>>  wrote:   
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   >>>> On 1/30/26 21:00, Nioclás Pól Caileán de Ghloucester wrote:   
   >>>>> Bill Sloman  wrote:   
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   >>>>> |"Languages aren't learned any faster if you learn them young"             
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   >>>>>   
   >>>>> It is much easier for a child to learn a language than it is for an   
   >>>>> old person.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> An often repeated myth, entirely untrue.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> 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.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Jeroen Belleman   
   >>>   
   >>> Adults rarely acquire a new accent at native level.   
   >>>   
   >>> https://news.mit.edu/2018/cognitive-scientists-define-critic   
   l-period-learning-language-0501   
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   >>> John Larkin   
   >>> Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center   
   >>> Lunatic Fringe Electronics   
   >>   
   >> True, but those natives probably don't have the linguistic   
   >> abilities of the foreign speaker. Your thinking is shaped   
   >> by language, and speaking more languages is enriching.   
   >>   
   >> I'm native Dutch, but I've been told I have a French   
   >> accent now.   
   >>   
   >> Jeroen Belleman   
   >   
   > Which language is best for thinking about electronics?   
   >   
   > I think circuits in pictures, not words, but people are very   
   > different.   
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   >   
   > John Larkin   
   > Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center   
   > Lunatic Fringe Electronics   
      
      
   That has to be English, I think. Anyway, for quite some time now,   
   English has been the common language of science and technology,   
   electronics included. It has been French for a while, and Latin   
   for a long period before that. And ancient Greek before that, and   
   and ,,,   
      
   Jeroen Belleman   
      
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