Why do ppl keep saying it’s hard for adults 2 learn a new language?

I hear that everywhere i go and it kinda discourages me. It makes me feel like if i try to learn or tell ppl about it, i’m automatically considered retarded just fortrying to learn because i’m 20. I mean everyone wants to learn something and get it right away but of course it doesn’t happen like that and i’m a pretty dedicated and driven person. i don’t just give up when things get hard or frustrating….i may take a break and come back to it later lol but i don’t just quit whatever i’m doing.

I wanna learn Spanish, German, Japanese, and Sign Language but right know i’m taking the ones in order of practicallity. Like i WAS learning German because i plan on going back to Germany again one day (used to live on a military base there for 4 years when i was a kid) just to redo everything like tours and stuff since i don’t remember them (all i have are pictures) and because i’m in love with this german band Tokio Hotel, but then i was thinking maybe i should switch to Spanish since there are ALOT of spanish speakers here in America and it would be more beneficial. Then i was thinking about learning German or Sign Language next then Japanese.

Or maybe i was thinking about learning at least 2 of them together at the same time. I’ve been learning Spanish on and off since i was 5 (but i don’t know that much) and a month ago i was learning German but then ppl would look at me weird when i told them that and would say “what for?” I don’t know. What should i do? Anyone know any good learning techniques or websites or books?

Oh yeah, i know words in both German and Spanish and can put together basic sentences only using those words but i don’t know anything as far as grammar.

Also do spanish speakers really use the forms of nosotros and vosotros and stuff like that often cuz i was having trouble with that back in high school (had THE worst teacher ever).

Oh yeah and i know about how spanish has 2 diff. genders and is easy to spot but not so much with German, which has 3. I was told i just have to remeber them as i learn. I was wondering does German have ANY conjugations like that’s and it’s cuz i watch a German show with subtitles and anytime “we’re” or “I’m” is comes up in the subtitles the person speaking doesn’t say that, they ALWAYS say “Ich bin” but i also hear weisen and i think that’s we are but what is it technically?

SOO sorry this was long, lol, i was venting through the beginning and then started getting curious in the middle till now, lol
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“DRUG” performance & lyrics by Nyke [in ASL]


[NOTE: TURN ON CAPTIONS IF YOU WANT TO READ WHAT IS BEING SIGNED.] www.damname.com performance & lyrics by NYKE PRINCE director & director of photography JULES DAMERON gaffer & digital colorist ERIK CALL editor JESSICA CONTINENZA composer AARON DRAKE a special thanks to BRIDGETTE WRIGHT all rights reserved by damname productions, 2010..

LSC-CyFair one of five colleges chosen to participate in Family Signs Program

LSC-CyFair one of five colleges chosen to participate in Family Signs Program
American Sign Language students at Lone Star College-CyFair were also teachers this past semester, helping parents learn to communicate better with their Deaf children through the Family Signs Program.

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Sing Language….I want to learn it!!!?

I’m 22 years old and i’m not deaf but i will like to learn this beautiful language, i live in U.S.A. and i don’t know if i have to learn the american sign language or what? If you know a really good book, please tell me the name of the book, author or where can i find it, a web page that will be great, dvd, please help me, i wanted start learning………Thank you.
and i know that i can go to a college but the time is kinda late and don’t work for me because it start at 6pm until 9pm and my husband goes to work at 7pm and we only have one care plus i have a son of 2 years old……i’m kinda busy for those classes…. : (
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which book is about a girl who teaches a deaf boy sign language and the town thinks she’s a witch?

The book was possibly written in the nineteenth century? I am not sure if she actually teaches him sign language but it is something to that effect. The town or some people think that what she does is crazy and they burn her hand or something to see if she is a witch.
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Good American Sign Language Learning Assistance Sites?

Ok tomarrow I start an ASL class at my college and I was hoping to get some more sites to help my learning and retention of the language. I all ready know about
http://asl.ms/
http://www.lifeprint.com/asl101/fingerspelling/fingerspelling.htm
http://www.lifeprint.com/asl101/lessons/lesson01.htm
Do the good people of Yahoo Answers have any more good sites?
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