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Re: Another armchair "expert" (was Re: The Earth is at the Center of the Universe)

From Athel Cornish-Bowden <acornish@imm.cnrs.fr>
Newsgroups sci.physics.relativity
Subject Re: Another armchair "expert" (was Re: The Earth is at the Center of the Universe)
Date 2022-11-01 09:00 +0100
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On 2022-11-01 06:27:16 +0000, Thomas Heger said:

> Am 31.10.2022 um 19:36 schrieb Volney:
>   ...
>>> Einstein started to speak late in life and even his German was poor.
>>> But his English after many years at Princton was just terrible.
>>> 
>>> From this I had drawn the conclusion, that language in general was
>>> not his thing.
>> 
>> Once again, he learned English at 54.
>>> 
>>> Now, any new language takes a couple of years to learn, which is
>>> independent of age.
>> 
>> 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.
> 
> 
> a baby learns also inside the body of his mother.
> 
> Until a baby finally speaks, the neurons in the brain had almost three 
> years to develop in the appropriate order.
> 
> Now three years is much longer than Einstein had to learn Italian and French.
> 
> But I know elederly people, who had learned a new language in less than a year.

Not impossible, but unusual.

-- 
Athel -- French and British, living mainly in England until 1987.

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