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| luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7205 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 9 of 78 26 January 2007 at 5:58pm | IP Logged | |||||
Tony Buzan, the Mind Map man mentions in one of his books that learning a new language each decade is one form of mental exercise. Although he's talking about a very modest level of proficiency, I think a language a decade would be doable by most people who were willing to devote their "hidden moments" and commute time to the task. Edited by luke on 26 January 2007 at 5:59pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Gamma Octoglot Groupie Brazil Joined 6943 days ago 82 posts - 85 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, French, English, GermanC2, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Finnish Studies: Icelandic, Dutch | Message 10 of 78 26 January 2007 at 7:52pm | IP Logged | |||||
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jtmc, the power of the human brain is unlimited. If you WANT to learn more than seven languages to a high level, it is perfectly possbible. Now, if you place obstacles in front of your goals because of somebody's theory, and decide not to WANT to learn more than seven languages because it is theorically impossible, then achieving such goal will indeed be impossible to you. Think about the most brilliant and succesful polyglots ever known by the human race. Do you think they gave importance to any taboos created by other people? Of course they didn't, otherwise they would not become unique among the others, showing them something that weren't imagined, something that until then were "impossible".
I think you should just follow what flows from inside, what flows from your soul. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Marc Frisch Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6665 days ago 1001 posts - 1169 votes Speaks: German*, French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Persian, Tamil | Message 11 of 78 26 January 2007 at 8:52pm | IP Logged | |||||
No, not at all. Factorize 374859664536281939984775892017166155343419101234156277489599 900513 to prove me wrong. Edited by Marc Frisch on 26 January 2007 at 8:53pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Captain Haddock Diglot Senior Member Japan kanjicabinet.tumblr. Joined 6768 days ago 2282 posts - 2814 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, Korean, Ancient Greek | Message 12 of 78 27 January 2007 at 2:54am | IP Logged | |||||
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There are people who have trained themselves to do more difficult math than that in their heads.
To say the human brain is unlimited in ability might be an exagerration, but putting one's finger on any such limit is very difficult. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| tujiko Senior Member United States Joined 6533 days ago 140 posts - 144 votes Speaks: English* | Message 13 of 78 27 January 2007 at 6:32am | IP Logged | |||||
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Agree with the Captain. There are people who regularly extract 13th roots from 100 digit numbers - mentally. Within minutes. Such feats can be learned. To arbitrarily declare "x" is impossible greatly underestimates a great many people on this Earth who do a great many things we know little about. There is a saying along these lines that this reminds me of: Today we do what others won't; tomorrow we do what others can't. Time and time again we see that the people who say so many things can't be done (like learning languages after childhood) are often blissfully unaware of the many people who have done those very things. I try to keep an open mind, and search out people doing the things I strive to do before gleefully declaring the impossibilities of doing them.
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| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7015 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 14 of 78 27 January 2007 at 6:05pm | IP Logged | |||||
I agree with the Captain and tujiko.
He might not be able to do it mentally, but he could always program a computer to do it for him, which still counts as intelligence in my book. Edited by patuco on 27 January 2007 at 6:06pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| slucido Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Spain https://goo.gl/126Yv Joined 6675 days ago 1296 posts - 1781 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Spanish*, Catalan* Studies: English | Message 15 of 78 28 January 2007 at 4:18am | IP Logged | |||||
-Human being is limited. -Human brain is part of human being. -ergo human brain is limited. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Sir Nigel Senior Member United States Joined 7104 days ago 1126 posts - 1102 votes 2 sounds | Message 16 of 78 28 January 2007 at 10:46pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Of course we realise that the brain has its obvious limitations. But what's so fascinating is that no-one can really say where the limits of mental function are.
Think of these autistic people with amazing abilities that can do maths in a split second that would take an average person a really long time. The list goes on... 1 person has voted this message useful |
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