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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/20/2012 6:42 AM, Donovan Arnold
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new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><font size="2"><span
style="RIGHT: auto">PS. Learning another language is an
excellent idea, but has to be done at a very young age.
Otherwise it is just memorization and the words don't have
the <span id="misspell-1" class="mark">emotionial</span> <span
id="misspell-2" class="mark">conncetion</span> they are <span
id="misspell-3" class="mark">intented</span> to, they are
simply <span id="misspell-4" class="mark">functionial</span>.
I can learn Spanish written but not spoken because I cannot
hear certain sounds used in the Spanish language that are
not in the English language. After a certain age, your
brain <span id="misspell-5" class="mark">reassignes</span>
the portions of the brain that were <span id="misspell-6"
class="mark">dedeicated</span> to hearing and
speaking certain sounds for other functions if not used in
childhood.</span><span style="RIGHT: auto"></span></font>
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Language learning can be done at any age. It's true that younger
people may have more facile learning abilities because of
less-developed language centers in their brains and more energy to
do everything, language learning included. But that does not imply
that adults can not, especially via well-developed methods, learn
languages to as effective and as satisfactory levels of
communicative ability as are desired.<br>
<br>
Methods used may vary somewhat depending on personal preferences,
but generally a method that follows natural language acquisition
patterns will work best if followed consistently. The natural method
consists of listening to hear all of the sounds used within a
language, whether or not those sounds have been previously learned
for another or native tongue, and then reproducing those sounds
through speaking words, phrases, sentences, and conversations with
those sounds as a part of the speech. After a learner can reproduce
all of a language's sounds, and can converse at a elementary level
with a modest vocabulary, then vocabulary building can be emphasized
through readings and more advanced conversations. After some
reasonable level of oral and verbal fluency has been achieved, then
the student can start learning more about the language by beginning
and practicing writing in that language.<br>
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There is an active, and growing, natural language learning community
on the Internet, especially YouTube, comprised of individuals who
are actively pursuing multilingual capabilities for themselves. By
way of introduction, I will mention just a couple of web sites for
people interested in learning languages, multilingualism,
polyglottery, and polyliteracy:<br>
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The How to Learn Any Language site, including various language
forums:<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/e/index.html">http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/e/index.html</a> <br>
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The Foreign Language Expertise site, created and maintained by Dr.
Alexander Arguelles:<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.foreignlanguageexpertise.com/">http://www.foreignlanguageexpertise.com/</a> <br>
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<br>
Ken<br>
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