[geeks] New Tech Schools: Digital Harbor in Baltimore

[Sandwich Maker]

" From: der Mouse <mouse at Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
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" > brain scans have shown that people who grew up polyglot use the same
" > language center for all their languages, but people who learn
" > languages when older use a different part of the brain for the new
" > tongue.  i wonder if this takes learning method into account...
" 
" I suspect there's also a healthy dose of individual variation involved.

wouldn't surprise me a bit.

" I have one friend who is fluent in something like eight western
" European tongues and can get by in all but one of the rest.  (The
" exception is, IIRC, Hungarian.)  I believe at least some of those were
" learnt as an adult.

i'm not sure hungarian counts as a western language; it's related to
finnish, turkish, and mongolian.  otoh that doesn't stop the
hungarians from proudly celebrating their red-haired celtic roots...
[late 2nd mill bc]
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