My grandparents decided to learn Welsh when they were 65. After two years of lessons in it (and talking Welsh with me at home, I was going to a Welsh school and was already fluent), they were fluent. My grandmother, around the same time, decided to overcome her phobia of water and had me teach her how to swim. She'd swim laps with me in the pool up into her 80s.
You're not too old and it's not too late to try something new.
@Katharsisdrill In some cases maybe lazy, but yeah definitely the psychological border. That's why I shared it though - might be a helpful little reminder :D
@WelshPixie - And that was why I reshared :)
In other words: there is always something new and exciting and worth learning out there?
@kemonine if you wnat to interpret it that way, sure! It was more about something you might already wish you knew but you keep putting off learning because you think it's too late.
After watching my grandparents (born in the 1930's) react and adapt to the world around them...
I think I'll be OK on that count. They never stopped and never suggested 'it was too late'. If anything they usually argued what you put forth :)
@WelshPixie you're only old when you stop learning, otherwise it's never too late!
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Dad started learning Italian in his mid-70s and got good enough that he spent weeks at a time running around Italy with no problem, and this was probably less than a decade before Alzheimers.
This is a thing I'm still working to convince myself of regularly -- it's a bit more uphill for me regarding some things, but I'm currently leveraging my mostly-text-oriented brain and learning Japanese to be a translator (and maybe someday write for native Japanese audiences) as well as Spanish, German, and Brazilian Portuguese conversationally. (and I'm trying to get a smidgen of Russian in there too!)
@sydneyfalk gosh! So many! :D
yeah, it's a little weird for me to think about, so I usually just don't think about it ^_^
@WelshPixie - It never is, but there's a psychological border that most people succumb to... or maybe they are just lazy :)