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If I'm over 25, is it still too late for me to "learn" French or can I just watch French sitcoms for like a year and be up-to-speed? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by cheese_greater@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] adam_y@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Yeah, no.

This is bullshit.

(Especially the stuff about brain plasticity and learning capacity)

https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publishing/review/30/neural-plasticity-dont-fall-for-hype/

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you please just edit and rephrase so its obvious as to what direction you are indicatingn in terms of BS?

[–] adam_y@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure, but just to be clear, it's about the brain plasticity and diminishing returns. That stuff just isn't true.

Here's what the British academy has to say on the subject:

https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publishing/review/30/neural-plasticity-dont-fall-for-hype/

[–] notfromhere@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

Sounds like you’re agreeing with GP that “it’s all babble”.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That example about London cabbies is actually one of my favorite studies...

But changes to certain structures in the brain isn't what I was talking about. And I've never heard of that being categorized as neuroplasticity.

Which makes it even weirder that the article is about how we should differentiate more.

So let's stay specific?

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnagi.2021.666851/full

[–] ArcticDagger@feddit.dk 4 points 1 year ago

But that study was done on people aged 65+ for 11 weeks? I mean, sure, they didn't measure any significant changes to the brain, but that doesn't preclude changes forever. 11 weeks is not long to practice a language