Re: Lesser genes than expected

From: Kenneth Van Oost (Kenneth.Van.Oost@village.uunet.be)
Date: Tue Feb 20 2001 - 21:01:21 GMT

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From: "Kenneth Van Oost" <Kenneth.Van.Oost@village.uunet.be>
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    Hi Joe,
    You wrote,

    > We are also born with the capacity to learn any language, and do
    > so easily during our critical period (preadolescence); afterwards, it
    > is much more difficult for most of us to master additional tongues.

    << I don 't wanna be misunderstood, but we...the Flemish, can easily
    learn additional tongues without any trouble...from English, Hindi to
    Chinese. Some do it better than others...
    Anyway, 41 % speak our native language + two more and only 26 % in
    the EU.
    We are with 83 % against 72 % for the EU interested in more languages.
    How would you explain this....
    Flemish people speak Dutch, not French....

    Best,

    Kenneth

    ( I am, because we are)

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