I've taught myself around 8 languages, albeit with varying degrees of proficiency. Only "good" in 5 or so. Through all this, I've become quite fascinated with foreign language acquisition, and how to improve on it.
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Any suggestions for Hebrew? I'm struggling on my own and would love to learn
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Its a very interesting language, and easier for me since I've long known Arabic. But generally speaking, its hard. Not nearly as much as Arabic though! Lemme write up / link to some tips. There's lots of good things one can do..
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Thanks man I appreciate it! What are the other languages you know?
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Sup man, any updates?
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Here's an old (and kind of embarassing) video of my 4 years ago speaking 6 or 7 languages (some better than others) to my laptop camera. My Russian was quite lapsed back thenhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ayHI6aoFp8 …
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That's not embarrassing at all! Or maybe it is and I didn't understand a word you said.
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Just minor errors I see in hindsight. But stuff thats obvious to me now..I was self-taught mostly in Russian in my youth and became lapsed in the details for a good while..
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The abstract cites 17.4 years as "the crux of adulthood." I am curious why legal adulthood is equated with cognitive adulthood, and if the two are even the same.
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A valid question that needs to be asked is: does competence in a second language open later opportunities for third and fourth languages? That is, I think second languages reside in a place in the brain where other languages will "live" as they are added.
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So at what point does it become nearly impossible for most people?
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The article only focuses on syntactic acquisition yes?
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Would be interesting to see research on phonological acquisition. I suspect the ability to acquire native competence declines at a much earlier age.
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A potential analogous study with available data and interesting language acquisition overlap: can compare when chess players started learning chess seriously and their FIDE ranking. I found it odd that ebonics was in your dataset.
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And of course, there is a glaring inference validity question that arises from the homogeneity of participants' learning style who eat the digital bait, and cultural complexity of acquisition that goes beyond immersion and non-immersion.
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Critical? Haha as in important or a finite type of make or break? What if we ask about the point a second language is affluent as a first? Could it be an equavlence duration of drug independency to balance out time frame of dependency, to then start operating at bar so to speak?
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