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Originally Posted by Osito
I agree with everything you've said. I agree that everyone should put forth the effort.
I taught ESL classes for two years and it was mostly hard working folks who wanted a better position at their job so they came to night classes 3 times a week for 3 hours at a time. A good amount of them picked it up fairly quickly but a lot of them struggled because English is an incredibly complicated language.
Anyways, I was just saying that its very hard to learn a new language when you're older. I know because I really tried to learn French and, while I can still get by, I would get completely lost if someone spoke it to me in a natural fluent manner. haha.
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Well I've tried to learn Spanish by listening to Pilmsler's courses in my car and such but I just know how to say a few sentences and sometimes get the gist of what someone is saying so it's not easy (I'm an old 37 ). I haven't taken any real classes on it (why did I take German in HS?) so I have no idea why objects are considered masculine or feminine and will probably never learn beyond ordering food and asking where the bathroom is.
On the other hand, my life doesn't depend on learning Spanish the way it would if I had just moved to Spain or Colombia and in that case I would drop everything and try to learn the language.