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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ExploderWizard" data-source="post: 5148061" data-attributes="member: 66434">Not at all. You learned a new language over time. You actually got more proficient at speaking it. If you were living in 4E Japan you would start out struggling with the language and after ten years you would still be struggling because somehow after all that time and learning, you would routinely encounter all new words, and concepts every day. You wouldn't feel as if you had really mastered anything unless you visited a primary school class so that you could have a conversation with 7 year olds without struggling.  People's capabilities do indeed change. A world on a moving track that keeps the successful use of these capabilities more or less at the beginner level simply makes those advances an illusion.</blockquote>