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To: LindyBill who wrote (146135)	11/7/2005 6:50:47 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793729

I don't think there is any argument that the younger a child starts to learn a language, the easier it is. We didn't use to think that learning languages was important and language training has actually decreased over the years. I majored in languages. Lots of my fellows planned to go into teaching but for a couple of decades there was little demand for language teachers. I agree that if we're going to teach languages we should start young. If I had had kids, they would have had a nannies speaking to them in some language other than English. I can personally testify to how much harder it gets as you get older. Even in college it's noticeably harder. I have an aptitude for languages and I don't think I could learn another now at my age. I tried Japanese about fifteen years ago and I could tell the difference in my absorption. That bit I just posted about English requirements for citizens reflects the difficulty of learning a language when you're getting long in the tooth and exempts older people.