expressing feelings in Japanese

[soryang]

3. Wow.

I tell myself I'm too old. I've heard some neuroscientists say that if one learns a foreign language as a child, then the facility to learn languages is enhanced. I didn't, so it's a handicap. I read about one person who was like that and one of the parents was professional linguist so that explained a lot I thought.

Even the people I knew as a student or early in my career who were competent interpreters in European languages were raised as children in Europe.