atashi no…

So… I’ve been wondering…. how much of intelligence is genes and how much is environment… or does it effect how one absorbs information…

I know this family and they have four children, ALL of them are mathematical geniuses. That said, they’re not necessarily the best students, just in math and English (reading anysways) (well, minus one of them, but he’s the only boy) So I thought, ‘maybe it’s genes’

But then I look at my sister and I, and may it’s because we were exposed to foreign language really early on in life (so it would be environment) , we’re geniuses when it comes to foreign language. My father was fluent in French and English, so he’d speak a little French to us here and there when we were little, not a lot though. (BTW my sister and I aren’t related, she’s from Korea and I’m from Chile.) My sister grasped the French language easily when she entered Middle School (because that’s where they start the language program at my school) she went into Honors French in High School (they didn’t have honors in middle school). Of course, she’s full Korean, there’s no chance of her genes holding the ability to speak French. You could refer back to the “the younger you are the easier it is to learn a language” but then… I couldn’t grasp French very well. I struggled with it. After getting to French III I just dropped it completely, however learning Spanish was easy to me, like, really easy. I actually started Spanish I this school year, and I’m sure you’re thinking, Spanish I… of COURSE it’s going to be easy… I mean, it’s Spanish I for crying out loud. But then again… I learned the first four chapters completely in 1 week… (while my class was still working on “Hola!” and remembering what it means…dear god… >.< | and it took half a year for our class to go over the first 4 chapters) Also, on top of that I was learning other things. My Spanish teacher actually said, “God this must be boring for you…” and he’s recommending me for Spanish III next year instead of Spanish II. But maybe Spanish was in my blood, even though I wasn’t exposed to it like how my sister was exposed to French. So it’s like Genes worked with me and environment worked with my sister… of course, my sister was really good at math (a stereotypical thing of asian kids).

So I’m still wondering if it’s genes or environment… but maybe it’s a little bit of both and depending on the kid environment may or may not have more of an effect than genes… like how some people are more easily influenced than others… my sister does go with trends and I don’t…any way that’s all for now…