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Re:How to Learn Any Language in 3 Months by jbellis on Monday October 19, 2009 @08:53AM (#889966)
> German, for instance, turns out to be a lot harder than Spanish, which I'd learned when I was younger

I'd guess it's the "learned when I was younger" part that made the difference.

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Re:How to Learn Any Language in 3 Months by davidw on Monday October 19, 2009 @09:03AM (#889982)
I studied German when I was younger (middle school/high school), and Italian a bit later (college), and Italian is definitely easier (though no language is easy).
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Re:How to Learn Any Language in 3 Months by wheels on Monday October 19, 2009 @10:03AM (#890063)
The difference was Spanish at 14, German at 21. From a language learning perspective 14 is already past the age where there's much innate.
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