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

From Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de>
Newsgroups sci.physics.relativity
Subject Re: Another armchair "expert" (was Re: The Earth is at the Center of the Universe)
Date 2022-11-02 08:40 +0100
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Am 02.11.2022 um 03:51 schrieb Volney:
> On 11/1/2022 2:27 AM, Thomas Heger wrote:
>> 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.
>
> We don't know when and how Einstein learned Italian and French. Just
> that he did. Since he was described as fluent in French, he must have
> learned rather young.
>>
>> But I know elederly people, who had learned a new language in less
>> than a year.
>
> That's unusual.
> How well could they speak it? Were they as clumsy with their new
> languages as Einstein was with English? But some people are wired for
> languages, most aren't.
>>
>> So: these people apparently had neurons availible, which are able and
>> willing to learn something new.
>>
>> This is a 'learn how to learn' thing and also a skill, which some
>> people have (but definitely not all).
>
> You have to have a knack for languages as well.
>>
>>>> It is actually easier to learn a new language late in life, if you
>>>> have practise in learning.
>>>
>>> Nope, not languages. Not well enough to avoid something like what you
>>> say is "terrible" English. (As I understand it his English was ok but he
>>> had a really thick German accent that many had trouble understanding)
>>
>>
>> Einstein had a LOT of opportunity and incentive to learn English at
>> Princton.
>
> And he did learn English.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc1tzwP8GHo

Sure, he could speak English. But it seems, as if he would read his 
speech from a manuscript.

The pronounciation is also very bad and he had a very heavy German accent.

This was a video from after a decade in the USA. It is actually unsual, 
to speak English with such a heavy accent after such a long time, 
because it's the environment, which dictates how we speak and how that 
sounds like.

If you live in a foreign country long enough, you will inevetably speak 
the local language, because the human brain is made to communicate and 
you can only communicate with peeople which are actually there.

Since Einstein spoke quite poor English, we are forced to assume, that 
his brain was not really prepared to learn the local language, which 
was, of course, English at Princton.

But if so, how did he manage to learn French and Italian at a relatively 
young age?


...


TH

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                Re: The Earth is at the Center of the Universe whodat <whodaat@void.nowgre.com> - 2022-10-28 16:03 -0500
                Re: The Earth is at the Center of the Universe Volney <volney@invalid.invalid> - 2022-10-29 00:10 -0400
                Re: The Earth is at the Center of the Universe whodat <whodaat@void.nowgre.com> - 2022-10-29 00:36 -0500
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