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On February 23 2012 11:32 babylon wrote:
It's so much more depressing when you sit down and realize that you'll never reach the fluency of a native speaker or understand the language as perfectly as a native speaker if you pick up a language past the age of 12.
At least for dead, ancient languages, you know that if you keep at it, you'll eventually know all there is to know about it (at least insofar as everyone else knows about it).
It's so much more depressing when you sit down and realize that you'll never reach the fluency of a native speaker or understand the language as perfectly as a native speaker if you pick up a language past the age of 12.
At least for dead, ancient languages, you know that if you keep at it, you'll eventually know all there is to know about it (at least insofar as everyone else knows about it).
A good friend of mine came to the states at 14 from Asia and has a grasp of the English language at least as firm as that of my own. So while it's difficult, it is by no means impossible.
