It’s a real thing, as she says; but the issue is, that I honestly can’t think of a solution, can you?… even I’ve fallen behind in my studies in Finnish, I can’t compare to a person whose native language is Finnish, but it isn’t exactly the fault of the system, and no matter what you do, you will never outperform a native or true second language speaker or reach the same level in any subject, you will never reach your full potential; and the level that is required can only be achieved by children and early teens who have the only hope to get to the required fluency.
And what can you do about that?… you can’t hack the brain, these kids are trying, I met them, I play sports with them, they speak amazingly well Finnish but they still can handle more abstract and complex concepts in their native tongue; and more effort doesn’t mean they learn more of a language, language acquisition is very complex.
This is a sort of unavoidable inequality whose only solution is generational time, infants will not fall behind as they are basically natives, the gap only grows as adulthood is reached due to how language works, the older you are when Finnish is introduced the harder it is to perform well academically in that language; that’s just how it is, some “inequalities” are not exactly mean in nature, intended, nor can be fixed; forcing an equality here could be disastrous.
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It’s a real thing, as she says; but the issue is, that I honestly can’t think of a solution, can you?… even I’ve fallen behind in my studies in Finnish, I can’t compare to a person whose native language is Finnish, but it isn’t exactly the fault of the system, and no matter what you do, you will never outperform a native or true second language speaker or reach the same level in any subject, you will never reach your full potential; and the level that is required can only be achieved by children and early teens who have the only hope to get to the required fluency.
And what can you do about that?… you can’t hack the brain, these kids are trying, I met them, I play sports with them, they speak amazingly well Finnish but they still can handle more abstract and complex concepts in their native tongue; and more effort doesn’t mean they learn more of a language, language acquisition is very complex.
This is a sort of unavoidable inequality whose only solution is generational time, infants will not fall behind as they are basically natives, the gap only grows as adulthood is reached due to how language works, the older you are when Finnish is introduced the harder it is to perform well academically in that language; that’s just how it is, some “inequalities” are not exactly mean in nature, intended, nor can be fixed; forcing an equality here could be disastrous.