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or maybe if you are "smart" enough to speak several languages you are already ahead of the game.. thus you have more to loose before dementia becomes apparent.
by basicplus2 10y ago
or maybe if you are "smart" enough to speak several languages you are already ahead of the game.. thus you have more to loose before dementia becomes apparent.
- Ambroos 10y agoI doubt you need to be that smart to learn a second language. Growing up in Belgium we all started learning our second language at age 10 (some earlier), and a third at age 13. Most people (in Flanders) end up leaving high school speaking Dutch, French and English. Some get German too. It's not always very fluent, but everyone should have basic conversation skills in three languages. It's a cultural thing more than anything else. Besides children's movies we don't dub anything, we just subtitle. That gives you a lot of exposure to other languages. In theatres movies are even simultaneously subtitled in Dutch and French all over the country, by default. So considering the amount of people that learn a second language with relative ease, I don't think it has anything to do with being smart or not. You just have to be willing and start young enough.