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

Discussion in 'Random Thoughts' started by Grandeur, Nov 24, 2019.

  1. Onyourmarks

    Onyourmarks Senior Member

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    If you travel through Europe you will find that the northern and northeastern European countries will speak English fluently; Scandinavia (Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark (Greenland) and Finland), the Netherlands, Ireland and the UK, the Baltic region, Croatia, Slovakia etc. But when you go to Germany, France, Poland, Ukraine, Italy, Spain and Portugal, Austria, Switzerland, Albania, Greece, Turkey, Rusia...they will not. So, when you say that by learning just English you can travel around the world you will find that that is not the case. Unless you travel to five-star hotels only.
    If you would like to learn another language you need to like learning it. If you like it...you'll learn it. As someone here said: it takes time...years to perfect a language. You need to keep studying all the time: if you don't use it, you'll lose it.
    But indeed it is possible to learn several languages...more than one or two, or even more! If you speak several languages and want to add another...it still is hard work and many years of study. You will find that speaking more languages helps to learn another...if the languages have something in common and have the same alphabet.
    It is also possible to study several languages at the same time if you have the time. It does need some dedication though.
    Do we have people here who think in several languages every day?
     
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  2. themnax

    themnax Senior Member

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    sorry, no. amerenglish is only the language of euro-americans.
    there are more then 657 or so, i forget the exact number, of languages native to the western hemisphere, english, or amerenglish, is not any one of them.
    everything euro-american is imigrant, to a thouroughly and long prepopulated western hemisphere.
    and many of those cultures were as or more civilized then the european cultures which invaded them at the time they did, and eventually gave rise to the american nation here now.

    as to learning languages, diferent brains have different focus.
    mine is more on the intersection of infrastructure and environment.

    i'm so totally non-focused on human inter-relationships, other then how the degree of consideration, affects statistically how each of us individually experiences life,
    that learning any languge i did not learn naturally as a child, from my parents,
    which living in today's u.s., is of course that 'amer'engnish,
    that i find difficult anything but a few words in each of several languages, dealing to verying degrees directly, to my as mentioned focus of interest.
     
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