Agreed. My father began studying Russian when he was in his early 50s, and got conversational (to the point his Russian friends and tutors kept insisting he was fluent, despite him not being confident enough in it to feel like he was) in just a few years. It’s ludicrous to suggest there comes an age where your brain just shuts off language acquisition forever.

I love abe books, but I found out not too long ago that they’ve been an Amazon affiliate since 2012… so people trying to avoid amazon might not want to use them.