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I once visited some friends in Brussels who worked for the EU parliament. Not in a political capacity. While there I found out about children as young as 9 or 1
by INTPenis 7y ago
I once visited some friends in Brussels who worked for the EU parliament. Not in a political capacity. While there I found out about children as young as 9 or 10 who already speak several european languages.
It's really interesting to see what growing up in the political capitol of europe among children to diplomats can do to a kid.
- hybrids 7y agoIt has been well-documented that kids generally pick up languages much faster than adults.
- lordnacho 7y agoI suspect this is orders of magnitude more common than kids graduating university at 9. For instance everyone in my extended family speaks 3 languages at least, some 4, due to historical circumstances. It's simply a question of exposure. If you go to Fribourg in Switzerland there's a whole area where people speak both French, Swiss German, and High German. And these days English as well. The rest of the Swiss at least learn several languages in school, though perhaps not using them constantly.