[lojban] Re: Fwd: lojban and raising a child bi-lingual

[MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com]

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