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I have a question for the older generation: how has aging affected your ability to learn? I'm 31 and haven’t noticed many changes yet, except that learning instinctive things seems a bit harder. I know, for example, that children learn accents more easily. However, I believe it's because of the lack of learned patterns and the inability to rely on them.
For those older than me, what is learning like at your age?
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I'm 47 and, yeah, I think learning is getting a little bit harder. I have to review new words a lot more to get them to stick. But, I'm still seeing progress so it's not like it's impossible.
Hi. I am 68 years old and throughout my life and on a daily basis I have always studied. My areas of interest have been History, Philosophy, Art and Computer Technology. I have the curiosity of a child and my mind is always eager to know and study. As an example I will tell you that every two days I write a post in Journaly about life in Pompeii in 77 AD. Each post needs to be documented to fit the reality of the time... It is true that with age your memory capacity is diminishing but it is compensated with experience. To finish I will tell you that I am learning to play the violin, I play in a string orchestra, etc. In this way, I keep my dementia and arthrosis at bay... Heh, heh, heh...
Great question - I'm nearly 60 and I find learning new topics easier than I did when I was younger. I think that's because I know 'how' to learn and that's made all the difference.
I'm 61 and I have the same memory for language that I had when I was younger — perhaps even better now because I've learned how to make better associations and not rely on things like flashcards and vocabulary lists, which actually deter learning. I speak five languages fluently and am able to switch from one to the other on a dime, which I thought would become more difficult as I got older. As I wrote about in my post on comprehensible input, I've recently started learning Korean using only input and it's going really well. I think the success or failure of "learning" depends on how you define it. I've learned that what I considered "learning" when I was younger, was more like a form of mindless rote compared to the methods I employ now, which are more assimilation and internalization of the materials I consume. In other words, I still consume the same things — vocabulary, grammar, syntax, etc., but I "cook" them differently now and my mind absorbs them more readily and effectively.
title: The Ability...