When Adrian Black met his Italian partner 10 years ago, he was determined to learn her home language. Having successively picked up French a decade earlier when he lived in France, he felt the challenge was attainable.
"I
was blown away by how hard it was to learn French, but I came back
speaking it pretty well," says Black, who is now 50. But getting to
grips with Italian has been a much tougher process, he explains: "I feel
like French is deep down in my head somewhere, but with Italian it will
take a lot more effort for me to get to that level. "I've noticed that
my brain isn't as good as it was, and I'm pretty sure I don't retain
stuff as well as I used to. It just doesn't all click as easily as it
used to."
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