Do you think learning a second foreign language is too much for a brain?

I dont think my brain can hande learning a second foreign language at that late age.

I started learning english at the age of 21. Before the age of 21, I didnt know any english. One foreign language is managable but a second foreign language? I dont think so.

Also I dont see much need in learning a second foreign language since english is the one international language and its everybody's first foreign language, whose native language isn't english except for colony countries.

 

some people know a whole bunch of languages. so it is possible. but it is easier to learn another language as a child. and everyone's brain is different, so just because one person can do it doesn't guarantee someone else can.

what language are you thinking about learning?

 

I think it truly depends on how many people you have to talk to in the language you're learning.

 

It is just, the thought has occured. Thats all.

I wouldnt be able to manage a second foreign language.

 

I dont see much need either. It would be more of a hobby than a need as english is the international language of the world.

It wouldnt go more than saying "hello, I can speak 2 foreign languages. I am clever" when you can use english all over the world.

After english language, no language has importance.

 

depends on which brain.

its called aptitude.
different folks have different ones.

 

A brain like mine couldnt hande a second foreign language, right?

Even 1 foreign language should have been too much for me, right?

 

It's said that Cato the Elder learned Greek while in his eighties. And ancient Greek is pretty tough, trust me.

 

It is not too difficult. It just requires the will to learn and the time to devote to that learning. I speak 3 languages fluently and 1 rather badly. I was in my 50's when I studied the last one. I do believe that it takes anything between 5 and 10 years to master a language if you want to be proficient in speaking, reading and writing to a relatively high level.

 

I speak 2 ish foreign languages. So it's not impossible. Especially if I can do it

 

My only experience with another language is Latin and having a partner who was a Spanish major. My view is that people all over the world can and do learn multiple languages except for many Americans who have way too much baggage..

 

Nope. If anything it's great for your brain. Imagine if you travelled to another country in europe. You would need to know their language

 

I've always heard it's easier to pick up a subsequent language once you've learned a second language

 

And then you discover the Polish language.

 

i wouldn't know. just that each person is different.

i have no aptitude for languages, at least the way they are taught. i've picked up a few odd words here and there that are about things that interest me, but not enough of a vocabulary to actually communicate, carry on an ordinary conversation with anyone.

when i was little i fantacized that i could and would. and i think most people don't speak or even imagine the indiginous languages of right where they are.
and i wish i did and that this is what we did speak, instead of the languages of genocidal bastards who invaded the paces we live before we were born.

but i certainly don't go along with the nonsense that everyone else should have to speak whatever it is you grew up speaking yourself.
that is inexcusably narcisstic. even if its a shared narcissism, its still narcissism. which is biggotry which is aggressiveness which is evil.

i think if a person is going to travel all over the place, then they have a responsibility to be able to communicate with the people who live there,
in THEIR languages, and if not, they certainly have no business telling someone else to speak theirs.

and yah, just as a by the way, there are five hundred and some odd american languages, and english is not any one of them.

 

So there's actually a limit on how much information the brain can store, and this is in the petabyte range.

The size of just a dictionary is at max around 1mb. So just using this would give you millions of possible languages.

There are complex rules and context around actually using languages I wouldn't be surprised if that took 10 times as much space as the actual language. But still at that rate you'd have tens of thousands of languages!

As far as what's possible in terms of human lifetimes, it looks like 58 is the record.

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the difference in intelligence is not how much data your brain can store, but the rate at which you can assimulate and intigrate it.
that combined with how long you live, and how interested you remain in learning over the course of it, are what determe how much you can understand and know.

but the other thing i wanted to emphasize and point out, if you live in america and speak english, or the american version of it, you're already speaking a "forign" language.
even if it is the one you grew up speaking and the only one you know. (or any place other then england for that matter, even scottland, ireland and cimri, have their own 'native' languages)

 

Nope. Americans' native language is English.

 

wrong. nor is "america" "native" to the western hemisphere. america itself is NOT NATIVE in any sense of the word.

 

English language is their native language regardless of what nation they are.