> I've learned languages in my 30's and see no reason why I couldn't continue to do so in the coming decades. I think you're giving your age away. I picked up

> I've learned languages in my 30's and see no reason why I couldn't continue to do so in the coming decades. I think you're giving your age away. I picked up basic German in 3 days of very hard work at age 20. It worked, I still remember it and it's still useful. In my early 30s I picked up basic Norwegian in about 6 weeks of light effort. I can still recall some of it and still communicate in it, very poorly. I also picked up a smattering of Spanish, Swedish and tiny amounts of Japanese without much effort in my teens and 20s. In my mid 40s, I started to learn Czech. After 3 years of effort, I was getting nowhere, so I started paying professional teachers. After 5 years of that, I just about struggled past level A2 (advanced beginner). Learning your first Slavic language in adulthood is brutally difficult. (New phonemes, vowel length as marker of minimal pairs, 4 genders + 7 cases + 2 plurals for all nouns + complex tense system including gendered verbs.) Takeaways: 1. Language acquisition gets much harder with age. 2. Learning languages closely related to your own feels hard but it's much easier. Learn something distantly linked or unrelated for a long drawn out sharp shock.