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That seems to be how it is with me as well! I remember being at the top of my simple high school French classes, and now that I'm in upper level college classes, I feel like I'm at the bottom!

I think you are right, and that is what I would need in order to really be able to speak fluently.

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A language becomes extinct in this world every two weeks.

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Short-term language learning aids mental agility, study suggests

Mental agility can be boosted by even a short period of learning a language, a study suggests. Tests carried out on students of all ages suggest that acquiring a new language improves a person's attention, after only a week of study. Researchers also found that these benefits could be maintained with regular practice. Ref. Source 3k.

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Success in second language learning linked to genetic and brain measures


A new study shows that the final grades that college students received in a second-language class were predicted by a combination of genetic and brain factors. Ref. Source 7q.

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What does that sentence say?

Imagine coming across a sentence in English that reads like this: 'Mary apple eats her delicious.' For most native-English speakers, the sentence would likely strike you as odd because it doesn't seem to be structured in an order that immediately gets the message across. It has always been thought that, when adults learn a second language, they face this problem because the grammar of other languages doesn’t necessarily match their native language. But, a new study reveals that adults are capable of learning and processing a new language in a way that resembles native speaker language use. Ref. Source 7t.

Learning Another Language

Trying to learn a new language or even work on one you know somewhat as you get older is not always easy. I do know some of a few languages and can even make coherent conversations at times. But I am not always very good.

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Repetition a key factor in language learning

A new study has focused on language acquisition in the brain. Even short repetitive exposure to novel words induced a rapid neural response increase that is suggested to manifest memory-trace formation. Ref. Source 8g.

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Yes I have found the more you practice with saying a word or phrase the more easy it is to remember it.