I believe usually language learning gets harder with age
Mike Monkowski escreveu: > Henri Beauchamp wrote: >>>> Automatic translators are utterly useless and totally unable to >>>> translate >>>> properly from simple languages such as English into more complex >>>> and subtle >>>> languages such as French, German, Chinese, Japanese... > ... >> You can say and explain very complex things, even with "simple" >> languages, >> but I assure you that English is incredibly simpler than French or >> German >> (since I did learn all three, I know what I am speaking about). >> The grammar is incredibly much simpler in English, and the vocabulary is >> simpler too. For example, you can translate "to get" in at least 30 >> different verbs in French. or "power" into two different names (these >> are >> just two examples out of my head, but cases are countless). >> Fact is that at school (some 4 decades ago), I just needed a couple of >> months to learn the basis of English, while even after three years, I >> could never express myself as fluently in German (and since forgot >> pretty much everything I was taught in this language). That's also >> one of >> the reasons why English is so successful as an international "common" >> language: it's easier to learn and use than most (if not all) other >> languages. > > Perhaps it's just that speakers of English are more tolerant of > mistakes than are Francophones. Although your English is not bad, > "incredibly much simpler" is not good English. One translates "into" > not "in". You meant "nouns", not "names". "Out of my head" means > lost emotional control. I assume you meant "off the top of my head". > That's "basics", not "basis". It should be "have since forgotten", > not "since forgot". > > I have been trying to learn French for decades. The problem I have is > that the only places I can hear it spoken is on my XM radio and on > rented videos. > > From my experience, Chinese grammar is less complex than English > grammar; Spanish phonetics are more consistent than any of the > languages you list above; and three and four year old children are > amazingly adept at learning any language. > > :-) > > Mike > _______________________________________________ > Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: > http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SLDev > Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting > privileges > _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SLDev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
