From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Sep 15 21:10:17 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:10:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MnlqT-00089X-1C for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:10:17 -0700 Received: from imr-ma06.mx.aol.com ([64.12.78.142]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MnlqO-00088U-MA for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:10:16 -0700 Received: from imo-ma01.mx.aol.com (imo-ma01.mx.aol.com [64.12.78.136]) by imr-ma06.mx.aol.com (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id n8G4A5vx021484 for ; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:10:05 -0400 Received: from MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com by imo-ma01.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v42.5.) id d.ca6.4d94ab72 (41812) for ; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:10:00 -0400 (EDT) From: MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com Message-ID: Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:10:00 EDT Subject: [lojban] Re: Fwd: lojban and raising a child bi-lingual To: lojban-list@lojban.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_ca6.4d94ab72.37e1bf18_boundary" X-Mailer: 6.0 for Windows XP sub 11501 X-Spam-Flag:NO X-AOL-SENDER: MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com X-archive-position: 16200 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list --part1_ca6.4d94ab72.37e1bf18_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 9/15/2009 23:53:41 Eastern Daylight Time, ivo.doko@gmail.com writes: > I couldn't find exactly what I was looking for, but here: > http://www-writing.berkeley.edu/tesl-ej/ej14/r14.html > There it mentions the change that happens in the brain at the age of > 12-13 (I was off by a couple of years...), but notes that the > explanation which would feature only that would be too simplistic and > that most probably there are certain aspects of learning a second > language that are affected by that change and some that aren't. > >From an email to a friend dated 7/15/2009. "Something I read recently said that learning a new language late in life (it was in a Discover magazine, or something like that, that a friend at work lent me a couple of weeks ago) improves your memory. The article was about the brain being plastic, and that turning off/on the nucleus basicus/basilis turned the brain's learning ability off/on." Maybe not too closely related, but still about learning and especially learning languages late in life. stevo --part1_ca6.4d94ab72.37e1bf18_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In a messag= e dated 9/15/2009 23:53:41 Eastern Daylight Time, ivo.doko@gmail.com write= s:


I couldn't find exactly= what I was looking for, but here:
http://www-writing.berkeley.edu/tesl-ej/ej14/r14.html
There it mentions the change that happens in the brain at the age of
12-13 (I was off by a couple of years...), but notes that the
explanation which would feature only that would be too simplistic and
that most probably there are certain aspects of learning a second
language that are affected by that change and some that aren't.



From an email to a friend dated 7/15/2009. "Something I read recently= said that learning a new language late in life (it was in a Discover maga= zine, or something like that, that a friend at work lent me a couple of we= eks ago) improves your memory.  The article was about the brain being= plastic, and that turning off/on the nucleus basicus/basilis turned the= brain's learning ability off/on."

Maybe not too closely related, but still about learning and especially= learning languages late in life.

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