While it is great that the stimulous of learning a second language, if you can and using your mind in any way has long been shown ot have benefits in old age, dont forget that there are some for whom this is not possible. People who have had a stroke or a head injury may have lost that neurological centre. Dyslexia is another barrier and knowing others who have university degrees who have real problems to the point of virtual inability to aquire a second language there are obviously other factors which must be taken into account.
What does concern me living over here is that in dementia one looses aquired languages first, indeed it may be one of the first signs of dementia. I ponder on this when I think about what might take me back to the UK. Just imagine how isolated one would feel, dependent on carers whom through no fault of your own, you cannot communicate with
Ginny
Val says we all feel for people who for health reasons cannot learn French, as we would feel for them in lots of ways.
I am of course encouraging the majority of us out here who are fit and healthy to try to learn French to participate fully in life here and who knows when some of us start to slip our knowledge of French might keep us afloat longer.
On the going back to be with English speakers for someone with dementia I can see that could be a problem in the future but let us look on the bright side Ginny, it may never happen. " Always look on the bright side of life, drum, der rum der rum, derum" you know the Monty Python song, really makes you smile.
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