Isn it harder for older retirees to learn Spanish than younger people?
I know a couple of gringos who got here after 60 and I would call them fluent after more than ten years here, though they’ll still say they aren’t. But one had a Mexican partner and he really, really worked at it with that incentive. The other had some exposure to Spanish when she worked at a hospital in a heavily Mexican area in the states so she at least had the sounds right. Another guy around 65 I met here once had just gone through all four levels of Warren Hardy and now was off to a remote village in Guatemala for total immersion. He sounded fluent already to me, but what would I know? He also concentrated on getting all his news from Mexican TV and papers, doing his own immersion. Learning another language over 60 is really, really hard for most of us, though. Seems to me that those gringos with the most money tend to be the most isolated and the least likely to become fluent. If you can pay for all your services from the priciest Mexican companies, they’re most likely to be the
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