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Subject: Re: Another armchair "expert" (was Re: The Earth is at the Center of   the Universe)
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Am 01.11.2022 um 09:05 schrieb Athel Cornish-Bowden:
> On 2022-10-31 18:36:27 +0000, Volney said:
>
>>>
>>> [ … ]
>
>>> Nope. It's known that the older one is, the harder it is to learn a
>>> language. Think of it: a baby learns to speak by being exposed to his
>>> parents. Multiple languages if multiple languages are spoken in the
>>> household. That's what happened with my sister's kids, they learned
>>> two languages natively, one from each parent, they are now fluent at
>>> both.
>
> That's basically the case of my youngest daughter, with the difference
> that since she was 3 we have lived in a country that is not that of
> either parent. She could speak English and Spanish when we arrived, and
> picked up French very quickly. She is now (at the age of 39)
> effortlessly fluent in all three.
>
>
Friendst of me were from England and Chile, while the doughter only 
spoke German in Germany.

It is actually the environment mainly, what dictates how kids speak.

This is quite astonishing for parents from other countries. But other 
kids and media are also a source of language and that influence is 
mainly in the local language spoken in that area.


TH