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Stfu , how may weeks before you remove it...


If a discipline can be ruined, it did be ruined.


So there are no studies that show the elder lose their mental abilities?


You'll be there one day, and may you receive the same level of empathy.


While empathy is nice, companies are not retirement homes. Empathy does not pay bills.

If employees don't add enough value to justify their cost then eventually the company fails, costing everyone, not just the old or unproductive.


Again the issue is how we learn. Short sessions show some effects but homeworks are very tedious and put a lot of pressure on everyone.


Most mass builds are built like this


Pardon my ignorance but what are "mass builds?"


Could easily be pr work.


the only ghibli ive seen in a cinema and it was perfect in every way.


I'm still not convinced learning a 2 language is harder, even as an adult. I now know 3 and if you put some effort and time (or even better get immersed) you will learn it. Children have YEARS of amazing immersion, adult patience and care. Who wouldn't learn a language in such fertiile conditions.

As for the accent which i have, i don't know yet. I will try to correct it and see how it goes.


The step from one language to two is much, much larger than the step from two to three or beyond. I did this seriously for the first time when I was 21/22, and it was initially difficult to get used to the concept of thinking not in terms of the temporal order in which words are introduced (i.e. the syntax of the language in which you are speaking) or at least shifting your process to generate sentences on the fly in a new order. In my experience (native English, learned German) I had a relatively smooth transition but even so it was difficult not to construct sentences as I spoke in the typical English construction. Once you get comfortable with shutting off that reflex to formulate thoughts according to the syntax and vocabulary of your own language, learning language becomes a lot smoother. This reflex is of course more strongly burned-in the older one gets due to the decrease in neuroplasticity as we age.


I would swap 'laziness' to rest. We think we need to do a lot of things purely because we tell ourselves that, or we put ourselves in expensive environments.


Have you tried doing nothing?


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