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[eusdaiki]

If you play online poker {perhaps at DBPN} you´ll be asked to submit scan images of your credit card, id and license, along with an agreement letter properlly signed.

All that information is going to be kept "securely" in a file to which all the office has access, there´s plenty of duplicates of your information... and nobody really keeps track of them... it could be months before they realize your documents are missing.

 

[version77]

Quote from eusdaiki:

If you play online poker {perhaps at DBPN} you´ll be asked to submit scan images of your credit card, id and license, along with an agreement letter properlly signed.

All that information is going to be kept "securely" in a file to which all the office has access, there´s plenty of duplicates of your information... and nobody really keeps track of them... it could be months before they realize your documents are missing.

Might be one reason they have outlawed online poker in the state I live in.

Either that, or it takes away from $$$ the state gets in gambling revenue...

I vote on the 2nd reason...

 

[traderdon56]

Quote from NihabaAshi:

Use Google and you can find all kinds of incredible memory feats involving numbers that makes my memorizing of three credit cards look like child play.

For example, look up the name Daniel Tammet and there are hundreds more like him...from kids to adults.

By the way, my almost 4 year old speaks three languages.

However, he's exposed to three different languages almost on a daily basis.

One parent recently told me its not intelligence...its due to his surroundings.



It was tough to walk away from someone that made a comment like that.



I don't see it like that...

Won't waste my time in explaining.

Bye.

Mark

This post made me laugh a bit. Every parent wants to believe that their child(children) are smart, even genius.

OF COURSE your almost 4 year old does well with the 3 languages, BECAUSE HE IS LIKE A SPONGE AND IS ABSORBING EXTREMELY WELL AT THIS TIME OF HIS LIFE WITH NO OTHER DISTRACTIONS LIKE SCHOOL, FRIENDS, ETC.

Now, if you had told us that your child is exposed daily to Spanish, English and Russian, but is learning French, German and Japanese, THAT would be impressive.

I have some friends who adopted twin 5 yo children from Russia. Their mother is a langauge teacher and speaks English, French and Spanish. They are 8 yo now, guess how many languages the children speak? Nope, not four, only three. Why? Because they have forgotten 99% of the Russian language they used to know now that they don't use it on a daily basis.

BTW, adults have this same capacity for learning, given the right environment. During the Southeast Asia conflict, Uncle Sam was teaching military personnel to speak and write Vietnamese in 16 weeks of full-on, no English allowed classrooms and barracks.

 

[NihabaAshi]

Quote from traderdon56:

...I have some friends who adopted twin 5 yo children from Russia. Their mother is a langauge teacher...

Because they have forgotten 99% of the Russian language they used to know...

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Mark

 

[zdreg]

Quote from traderdon56:

This post made me laugh a bit. Every parent wants to believe that their child(children) are smart, even genius.

OF COURSE your almost 4 year old does well with the 3 languages, BECAUSE HE IS LIKE A SPONGE AND IS ABSORBING EXTREMELY WELL AT THIS TIME OF HIS LIFE WITH NO OTHER DISTRACTIONS LIKE SCHOOL, FRIENDS, ETC.

Now, if you had told us that your child is exposed daily to Spanish, English and Russian, but is learning French, German and Japanese, THAT would be impressive.

I have some friends who adopted twin 5 yo children from Russia. Their mother is a langauge teacher and speaks English, French and Spanish. They are 8 yo now, guess how many languages the children speak? Nope, not four, only three. Why? Because they have forgotten 99% of the Russian language they used to know now that they don't use it on a daily basis.

BTW, adults have this same capacity for learning, given the right environment. During the Southeast Asia conflict, Uncle Sam was teaching military personnel to speak and write Vietnamese in 16 weeks of full-on, no English allowed classrooms and barracks.

i recall reading years ago that language
immersion courses for executives usually last for 1 month under similar conditions listed above. it seems it would be longer if a new alphabet is required.

 

[NihabaAshi]

Quote from traderdon56:

...I have some friends who adopted twin 5 yo children from Russia. Their mother is a langauge teacher and speaks English, French and Spanish. They are 8 yo now, guess how many languages the children speak? Nope, not four, only three. Why? Because they have forgotten 99% of the Russian language they used to know now that they don't use it on a daily basis.

BTW, adults have this same capacity for learning, given the right environment. During the Southeast Asia conflict, Uncle Sam was teaching military personnel to speak and write Vietnamese in 16 weeks of full-on, no English allowed classrooms and barracks.

Quote from zdreg:

i recall reading years ago that language
immersion courses for executives usually last for 1 month under similar conditions listed above. it seems it would be longer if a new alphabet is required.

I wonder how long it takes for someone to forget their native language if they only speak a new learned lanaguage for many years?

99% forgotten of the native language seems a bit high.

Mark

 

[zdreg]

not if you are a child.
easy come easy go.

there are experts who supposedly can help
an adult recall childhood incidents.
I am not talking about abuses cases but in general. i would try it i i could find such an expert.
it would be a great trip down memory lane.

 

[NihabaAshi]

Quote from zdreg:

not if you are a child.
easy come easy go.

there are experts who supposedly can help
an adult recall childhood incidents.
I am not talking about abuses cases but in general. i would try it i i could find such an expert.
it would be a great trip down memory lane.

A believe age has something to do with it and how long the native language was spoken.

However, I think childhood incidents are much different than native language unless the childhood incident occurred every single day.

Our children speak, hear and see their native language every day...much different than experiencing an incident.

Regardless, lets say there is a 6 years old child...taken away and put into an environment where they never see, hear nor speak their native language while seeing, speaking and hearing a completely different language.

How long does it take for them to forget most or all of their native language?

Also, do they really forget (expose the child to the language at a later date).



How much of a factor is familiar surroundings involved in the remembering process...as if a closed door had been reopen.



Now, if we are talking about a new language that's not our own native language...

I'm sure the numbers is very high of how much is forgotten when not used for many years.

By the way, there are actual case studies about this.



Mark

 

[asap]

what about giving up credit cards? pay cash.

 

[eusdaiki]

Quote from NihabaAshi:

A believe age has something to do with it and how long the native language was spoken.

However, I think childhood incidents are much different than native language unless the childhood incident occurred every single day.

Our children speak, hear and see their native language every day...much different than experiencing an incident.

Regardless, lets say there is a 6 years old child...taken away and put into an environment where they never see, hear nor speak their native language while seeing, speaking and hearing a completely different language.

How long does it take for them to forget most or all of their native language?

Also, do they really forget (expose the child to the language at a later date).



How much of a factor is familiar surroundings involved in the remembering process...as if a closed door had been reopen.



Now, if we are talking about a new language that's not our own native language...

I'm sure the numbers is very high of how much is forgotten when not used for many years.

By the way, there are actual case studies about this.



Mark

Remembering a languaje previously learned is much easier than learning a new one from scratch. You already have the structure of the languaje in your head, and your brain has already learned at least two languajes, so you basically understand the structure of languaje itself much better than people that have only spoken one languaje all of their lives [even if you only understand it at subconcious level].