 gingembre says: That's it--I'm going to start using my Spanish and continue my French lessons! I wish I was bilingual or beyond. I took French for 3 years in high school, but never kept it up and can't remember much. Been picking up bits and pieces of Spanish living in New York but a long way to go before I can hold a conversation. Good luck with your lessons gingembre! Thanks, Adam. I studied Spanish for several years in school but have used it only occasionally since then. Recently I decided to brush up on it with the hope of being able to be conversant enough to tutor Hispanic students. I had a lot of fun practicing my rusty Spanish in a favorite Mexican restaurant, lubricated by the best margaritas I've ever had. Just as I felt that I was starting to become more fluent (or was that fluid?  ), I moved to an area where there are very few Hispanics but many, many French-speaking people. So I'm trying to learn French now. C'est la vie!I encourage you and everyone else reading this to learn a second language--not just because it will ward off dementia (... I speak several languages and my new, very difficult challenge, is Greek. They don't even use the same alphabet, so it's really giving my brain almost TOO much of a work out!! After that. I want to learn Arabic, but all in good time, all in good time...  Both my children were in private school and learned Spanish at a very early age. They swear it's easier to retain if learned at a young age. It's not the least bit crazy to know lots of languages. I was trilingual by the time i was a teenager, after that I've been picking up languages from friends of mine that spoke it... When you speak more than two,will you live up to 150? Thanks for the article When you speak more than two,will you live up to 150?No promise of longer life in terms of years, but it does appear that you may keep your mental faculties intact longer--which I think may be even more important. good news i feel better already! gingembre, I studied both Spanish and French. I used to speak Spanish in my French class because my brain couldn't keep them straight (they are so similar). debbyski, I think we lose the ability to discern certain sounds in a language if we aren't exposed to them when we are young. I think that really helps children learn a language more easily than adults. If only I had started earlier in life. There is still hope for my daughter though. She knows some Spanish already. Fabulous news! I'm going to sit back and relax and enjoy my multilinguicity even more now! Multilinguicity? Is that even a word? Well, it is now! A limerick inspired by thisnamecantbetaken: Enjoy your multilinguicity Expressed with the utmost felicity Your dendrites will sprout And frolic about Enhancing your brain’s perceptivity Ta da! gingembre *LMAO* |
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