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Originally Posted by Botnst
With children it's a developmental window that opens and closes in the first few years. The lucky little bastards learn languages organically.
For the rest of us, it's a long, hard slog to learn a 2nd language. I understand that it is easier to learn a third language (even if unrelated to the first two) if one has a command of the first two.
I expect it's related to the different ways that children and adults learn language, I dunno.
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To what end? If their job is "Would you like fries with that?", who cares? You can dispute that it is harder to learn later on. However, that is assuming a willing student in both cases. This is like grad school. People are willing to learn. Freshman year in college, I'm still looking for my next buzz and classes are somewhere when I am getting over my hangover.