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[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 week ago

this is like saying you can't run after 30, yeah sure it generally becomes less trivial but if you actually try to do it and don't do it in the worst way possible it's absolutely doable without much struggle.

kids absorb language like a sponge, adults are like silica gel, just expose yourself to the target language often and you'll learn it. The problem is that many people are horrendously impatient and try to brute force language learning in like 2 months by memorizing individual sentences and shit, which isn't how our brains work..

[-] prole 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm not sure that analogy holds since running is an almost entirely physical task, and the brain's plasticity is relatively unique and different than how the muscles in your legs degrade.

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