Interesting Links for 13-05-2019

[andrewducker]

Adults learn language to fluency nearly as well as children

(tags:language age learning psychology )

DO NOT GET YOUR LEGAL ADVICE FROM REDDIT!

(tags:law unions employment OhForFucksSake )

Millennials are having less sex - but only because they've raised their standards

(tags:sex demographics )

Comments

[skington]

I read the twitter thread on the awful manager and it featured enough highlights from the comments that I went looking for them. The original query about firing people got few responses, but it looks like there's proper schadenfreude in all my ex-staff are suing me, the Police tell him to fuck off, whoops, I'm facing prison time and I'm fucked.

[skington]

Some of the best comments are buried in negative karma, so be sure to click to expand them.

[amberite]

It sounds like they very much *should* have taken the legal advice from reddit, and didn't.

[channelpenguin]

I started learning German at the age of 44, having done none beforehand. I did one year of fitting learning in (mainly from a Deutsch Welle radio course and the Babbel app) round a full-time job and a full-on life. I did one year of living in Germany with 3 hours a day, 4 days a week language classes.

So I will absolutely agree with the "going to school" advantage. That was necessary to egt where I got to.

After this my German was of a standard easily good enough to get offers from all 3 jobs that I interviewed for (in German) and then to do my professional job entirely in German thereafter. Which requires a reasonable amount of both written and verbal communication (analyst/programmer).

I do need to get better if I am to match my English fluency, but that would mean time I am not willing to devote right now (plus 12-20 years to build the vocabulary across many technical subjects, as it did in English!)

[andrewducker]

I'm impressed you got to that level of fluency.

And yeah, it takes aaaages to get a good technical vocabulary down. I'm hoping not to have to start over to do it in another language!