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Your statement that "it is easier to learn a language when you are younger" is laughable in this case. That's true when comparing learning a new language at age 3 to learning a new language at age 17 because toddlers are little sponges, but twenty years is a LONG time to live in a country and not be able to speak the language. My great-grandparents moved to America from Greece when they were in their late thirties, and they managed to speak fluent English within a few years. [/quote]

Different poster here, but you sound like a jerk.

Sometimes there are cultural reasons adults fail to learn the language of their new country, like when they have a lot of guilt about leaving their homeland and don't want to become "too" American (or English or French or whatever). Sometimes they desperately want to but don't have any built-in opportunities to practice (such as when they live and work with people who speak their native tongue and/or work with young children who don't speak at all) and are shy, intimidated, or too busy to create opportunities to practice outside of their regular daily routine. And other people try and simply cannot do it. I'm very pleased that your great-grandparents were able to learn English when they moved here, and I'm sure you'd also tell us how bright they were, right? Well, not everyone can do that. Please recognize that people are different, people's brains are different, and people's priorities are different.[/quote]

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