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2 posted on
12/02/2018 1:29:48 PM PST by
BipolarBob
(Natl. Veggie Growers Assn. "All we are saying . . is give peas a chance.")
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As a music teacher, I see people learn several instruments at once. Same part of the brain as for language learning, I am told.
3 posted on
12/02/2018 1:37:27 PM PST by
ArtDodger
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If the two languages are similar, absolutely. There are a lot of parallels between Spanish and French.
4 posted on
12/02/2018 1:39:00 PM PST by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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No reason why not.
Many in Europe grow up learning and speaking multiple languages.
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6 posted on
12/02/2018 1:41:32 PM PST by
King Moonracer
(Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.)
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Children do it all the time. The pathways are slightly different so while their dendritic trees branch in multiple directions, speech itself comes slower and improves slower, but in the end they are fully bilingual. Worth it if the situation is right.
7 posted on
12/02/2018 1:41:40 PM PST by
Yaelle
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Yes, of course. What a stupid question.
9 posted on
12/02/2018 1:44:03 PM PST by
dinodino
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I read a piece years ago (1970s IIRC) in Scientific American Magazine on language acquisition.The among the basic claims was that healthy human brains are language sponges (my term) when a person is young but changes occur in the brain at about the time of puberty that change that dramatically.
10 posted on
12/02/2018 1:44:09 PM PST by
Gay State Conservative
(I've Never Owned Slaves...You've Never Picked Cotton.End Of "Discussion".)
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Why can’t everybody just learn to speak English? This would make things much more convenient for me.
11 posted on
12/02/2018 1:44:28 PM PST by
SamAdams76
( If you are offended by what I have to say here then you can blame your parents for raising a wuss)
To: CondoleezzaProtege
Actually on Duolingo, I’m up to my fourth language.
I started with Spanish, French, then Polish and now learning German.
I hope to do Russian next, and my background in Polish will help there.
My goal is to be fluent in all of those languages in five years. I try to spend an hour every day on it.
Learning new skills is good for keeping your brain active, and some studies indicate it helps against acquiring dementia or Alzheimer’s.
12 posted on
12/02/2018 1:47:29 PM PST by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Does Body Language count?
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Christian ministerial candidates often work vigorously, in a formidable effort to simultaneously learn biblical Hebrew and biblical Greek.
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16 posted on
12/02/2018 1:57:57 PM PST by
bigbob
(Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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19 posted on
12/02/2018 2:01:34 PM PST by
GingisK
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Obviously. Toddlers do it all the time.
23 posted on
12/02/2018 2:18:41 PM PST by
Still Thinking
(Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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I can’t. My brain works more on calculation (algebra) than on rote memory (geometry). Things can be figured out, but foreign words are not usually ‘linkable.’
24 posted on
12/02/2018 2:21:06 PM PST by
sparklite2
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To me, learning languages is not as difficult as switching between them. In addition to my native English, I studied Spanish all through school -- and was pretty good at it.
Then we spent three years in Japan, studied Japanese and used it frequently (including avoiding hotels and staying in traditional Japanese inns out in the boondocks, where no one spoke English).
But, when we returned to the States, switching back to Spanish -- even tasks as simple as offering an old, tottering Señora a seat on the bus -- was embarrassingly difficult, without starting in Japanese ...and translating myself into Spanish...
Weird brain, I guess...
TXnMA
25 posted on
12/02/2018 2:23:52 PM PST by
TXnMA
("Allah": Satan's current Alias | "Barack": Satan's minion | "Muslims": Satan's useful idiots...)
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Great way for an adult to learn language is to teach it to 3-6 year old children. They’ll remind you what you forget.
27 posted on
12/02/2018 2:30:20 PM PST by
aspasia
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In my experience with learning three romance languages, they need to be dissimilar. Otherwise, the stronger of the most similar ones will tend to “erase” the weaker one.
29 posted on
12/02/2018 2:41:09 PM PST by
Albion Wilde
("The word 'racist' is used to describe 'every Republican that's winning'" --Donald Trump)
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I learned PHP and Perl at the same time
31 posted on
12/02/2018 2:46:08 PM PST by
AppyPappy
(How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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