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limey · 04-04-2009, 01:54 PM

[soapbox] To those of you who wish to play a(nother) musical instrument or learn a(nother) language: What's stopping you? If it's the time money thing, then I hope you manage to find the missing resource soon. If it's "oh, I wish I'd learnt as a kid but it's too late now" then allow me to say to you, humbly ... "BOLLOCKS! GET ON AND DO IT! IT'S NEVER TOO LATE".
I was gonna say this yesterday, but am even more inspired to do so today having listened in on my Best Beloved teaching his newest student the cornet today - a guy who started only a few months ago and had never played any musical instrument or read music before. I've not heard him for a couple of months and he's made such evident progress in that time, a fuller, more steady tone, good grasp of basic note lengths, better stamina, one of the tunes he played he played at sight faultlessly ... really impressive progress. He must be 55 years-old if he's a day. He's having a ball! It's so great to hear him.
I could say the same about languages as I've taught language classes with older persons in ...
Yes you learn more slowly as an adult, but you also have the wisdom to apply yourself more thoroughly and see the results. Get on and DO IT! [/soapbox]

04-04-2009, 01:54 PM	#23
limey Encroaching on your decrees Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: An island within the south-west coast of Scotland Posts: 7,016	[soapbox] To those of you who wish to play a(nother) musical instrument or learn a(nother) language: What's stopping you? If it's the time money thing, then I hope you manage to find the missing resource soon. If it's "oh, I wish I'd learnt as a kid but it's too late now" then allow me to say to you, humbly ... "BOLLOCKS! GET ON AND DO IT! IT'S NEVER TOO LATE". I was gonna say this yesterday, but am even more inspired to do so today having listened in on my Best Beloved teaching his newest student the cornet today - a guy who started only a few months ago and had never played any musical instrument or read music before. I've not heard him for a couple of months and he's made such evident progress in that time, a fuller, more steady tone, good grasp of basic note lengths, better stamina, one of the tunes he played he played at sight faultlessly ... really impressive progress. He must be 55 years-old if he's a day. He's having a ball! It's so great to hear him. I could say the same about languages as I've taught language classes with older persons in ... Yes you learn more slowly as an adult, but you also have the wisdom to apply yourself more thoroughly and see the results. Get on and DO IT! [/soapbox] __________________ Living it up on the edge ... of civilisation, within the southwest coast of