http://marketingbeginsathome.disqus.com/Social Media and Public Relations Ideas and Insights From David ParmetenMon, 18 Dec 2006 04:35:52 -0000http://www.parmet.net/pr/2006/12/17/on-learning-and-unlearning/#comment-4679939<p>Always handy though Stephen to know both how to operate a radio and morse code for when all the computers stop working :)</p><p>David you've raised an interesting point about kids' learning ability. I see this every day with my daughter, who flips between English and French mid-sentence without even blinking - and seems to recall German words I taught her over a year ago without even straining. This scares me after trying to learn french for over a decade and struggling with even the basics now...</p><p>Now is definitely the age for letting kids pick up new languages, and French is as good as choice as any (it gets you started with the other romantic languages) even if it is not as widely spoken as say Spanish, or Chinese - We do have some schools over though here teaching Mandarin Chinese instead of French.</p>RossMon, 18 Dec 2006 04:35:52 -0000http://www.parmet.net/pr/2006/12/17/on-learning-and-unlearning/#comment-4679938<p>And you of course know that Morse Code is no longer a requirement for an amateur radio license....?</p><p><a href="http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2006/12/15/104/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2006/12/15/104/">http://www.arrl.org/news/st...</a></p>Stephen PierzchalaSun, 17 Dec 2006 14:08:41 -0000