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Questions for a Polyglot - Steven Kaufmann (20 Languages?) (Patreon)

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2020-04-14 23:28:09
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Hey everyone,

I'm interviewing Steve Kaufmann tomorrow. Actually featured him on my video about learning languages from 2018 He speaks 16 - 20 languages so,

Any of you have any questions you'd like me to ask about languages, language learning or language psychology et cetera?

-Joseph

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Anonymous

3) Can “old dogs learn new tricks” as far as languages are concerned, or is it the case that once you’ve moved beyond toddler years language-learning is much harder due to closure of nascent neural pathways?

Eugene Pakhomov

I have moved from my birthplace in Russia to an English-speaking country, and I use English for almost everything. There's very little Russian left in my life. Because of that, English slips in now and then in my Russian speech - sometimes just words but more often even grammar and idioms. The question is: how can one prevent that from happening? Especially when knowing as many languages as Steven does - I can't imagine one using every one of them to the required extent to preserve the language knowledge and habits automatically.