Comment on Building bombings and 14-year-old hitmen: Organized crime overwhelms Sweden

• Croquette@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If you need to use a language for ten years in a fully immersed setting and have not learned conversational level skills, the issue is that you didn’t really try, no matter your age.

  I can understand if someone has a learning disability, but that is a small fraction of people.

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  • rottingleaf@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Wrong. Try and make your grandparents learn a new language in 10 years with them being 50-60 years old.

    I can understand if someone has a learning disability, but that is a small fraction of people.

    Judging by this thread you do.

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    • Croquette@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Right, I forgot that we stop learning at 50.

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