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Originally Posted by Polyglot27
I already read English, French, Japanese and Chinese. My latest ambition is to learn Turkish properly. The grammar is similar to Japanese (agglutinative) and not overly difficult. Any suggestions for websites and software on Ubuntu or Android are welcome. By the way, Takikura-san, I am 69 and time is running out even faster for me.
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I did not know that Turkish is an agglutinative language. I knew Hungarian and Finnish languages are in the same category. Watching those F1 Finnish drivers on TV it is not easy to imagine that we Japanese have the same root with these people.
I started to learn German at the age of 60, as I saw a Japanese TV program showing a guy who is now 103 years old and is a school master of a special school of retarded children. This program was made when he was 98. He started to lean Korean at the age of 65 and speak it now fluently. He started to lean Chinese at the age of 95. He was invited to Chine to set up a similar school there, as his unique method of helping these children was highly appreciated there. The program showed him making a speech in Chinese at the opening ceremony of the Chinese school when he was 98 years old. Doctors examined his brain to find his hippocampus size to be that of 70 years old people. They believe his effort of learning the Korean language helped to slow his hippocampal atrophy (shrinkage). I am hoping leaning this even more complicated German will reverse my hippocampal atrophy. Poliglo27: Good luck with the Turkish language and let's enjoy language learning till 120 years old, when our body cannot really support our growing hippocampus.