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Would it also mean they learn some German too as well as your niece?0
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Ooh i have a new housemate :eek:
Hes Spanish, seems ok so far(and by ok i mean not some weed smoking !!!!!! with anger issues like the last one)
Hope everyone is ok
Beau has gone home nowbut i;ve had a nice few days with him
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oldestgnome wrote: »Would it also mean they learn some German too as well as your niece?
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I have some fabric with a Very Hungry Caterpillar motif, I'm going to make it into a little bag for my friend who has a baby
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I only ever heard of The Very Hungary Caterpillar through comping & when I won a book. I didn't realize it was so old, where have I been all my life!
WaS have you thought about tinted windows for the car? Rather than lying in the back with a blanket.0 -
Have you heard about https://www.gov.uk/government/news/blogging-project-to-capture-everyday-experiences-of-people-living-with-mental-health-difficulties?
I thought WaS and some of the people here might be valuable contributors to the project.
Probably another way to get people off their benefits, I wouldn't trust government :eek: Plus I think these days I believe that MH issues applies to more people than not. It's just that we're so used to doing what we do that most people don't know any different, until someone points it out. I once told a councellor that I loved chemists & could spend ages looking, she said it wasn't normal & it needed to be dealt with
My great nieces live in Wales so Welsh is their first language at school, they often got confused between English & Welsh when they first went to school.0 -
A relative was Welsh and didn't learn English till she went to school. Later in life she moved to England - it always worried me that if she developed dementia she'd lose her English and revert back to Welsh so no-one would understand her. Didn't happen, but I've always wondered if that's a real possibility or if language is more hard wired and harder to lose. Any of the founts of all knowledge on here have any idea?All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well.
Pedant alert - it's could have, not could of.0 -
I once told a councellor that I loved chemists & could spend ages looking, she said it wasn't normal & it needed to be dealt with
What the actual f? I mean, really? Looking in chemists is brilliant. I love it. Most people do. I think your councillor needs help.Eu não sou uma tartaruga. Eu sou um codigopombo.0 -
A relative was Welsh and didn't learn English till she went to school. Later in life she moved to England - it always worried me that if she developed dementia she'd lose her English and revert back to Welsh so no-one would understand her. Didn't happen, but I've always wondered if that's a real possibility or if language is more hard wired and harder to lose. Any of the founts of all knowledge on here have any idea?
Can't enlighten you but its something I've wondered about. A relative was from a different country and developed Alzheimer and eventually he stopped talking. I always wondered if if was because he'd reverted back to his home language and no longer understood English.Eu não sou uma tartaruga. Eu sou um codigopombo.0 -
. It's just that we're so used to doing what we do that most people don't know any different, until someone points it out. I once told a councellor that I loved chemists & could spend ages looking, she said it wasn't normal & it needed to be dealt with
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Ok, if you were spending all day, every day in them, to the detriment of doing anything else, then that might be a problem, but otherwise I don't understand why your counsellor thought you needed help!A relative was Welsh and didn't learn English till she went to school. Later in life she moved to England - it always worried me that if she developed dementia she'd lose her English and revert back to Welsh so no-one would understand her. Didn't happen, but I've always wondered if that's a real possibility or if language is more hard wired and harder to lose. Any of the founts of all knowledge on here have any idea?
Based on my own experience only, I found that dementia patients whose first language is not English, became more animated when speaking their native language, and sounded much more normal, and seemed to remember more.
Now, that effect may be relatively short-lived, and may only apply to people who didn't speak their native language in England on a daily basis, eg at home with family., so that speaking their native language after a gap of time, might have opened up different pathways in the brain.
As I said, this is only my own experience and isn't based on anything researched. Language does have interesting effects on the brain, though, as does music.
The power of music is soooo underrated.(I just lurve spiders!)
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