Submitted by Ann-Marie Friesen on August 8, 2025, at 11:48
i agree that knowing many languages has it's ups and downs - being born in canada to parents who knew 3-4 languages had an interesting home dynamic - my parents grew up in british ruled hong kong with ties to portugese ruled macau so they had english, cantonese, portugese and the lesser known macanese in their head - ensuring their children fit in we were only taught english but grew up around cantonese, portugese and macanese phrases in an informal way - we did attend a cantonese class in chinese town once but didn't like it so stayed with english and school french
technology has allowed the learning of a language to be more accessible and even gamified in various apps - it's never to late to start and it's always good to know some basics which you can build on at your own pace as you see fit
technology has allowed the learning of a language to be more accessible and even gamified in various apps - it's never to late to start and it's always good to know some basics which you can build on at your own pace as you see fit