From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Sep 15 12:26:08 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:26:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MndfC-00024g-M0 for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:26:06 -0700 Received: from imr-ma04.mx.aol.com ([64.12.206.42]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Mndf9-00024E-8Q for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:26:06 -0700 Received: from imo-ma02.mx.aol.com (imo-ma02.mx.aol.com [64.12.78.137]) by imr-ma04.mx.aol.com (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id n8FJPo3e001955 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:25:50 -0400 Received: from MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com by imo-ma02.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v42.5.) id d.c0d.5dff8821 (41812) for ; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:25:46 -0400 (EDT) From: MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com Message-ID: Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:25:46 EDT Subject: [lojban] Re: Fwd: lojban and raising a child bi-lingual To: lojban-list@lojban.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_c0d.5dff8821.37e1443a_boundary" X-Mailer: 6.0 for Windows XP sub 11501 X-Spam-Flag:NO X-AOL-SENDER: MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com X-archive-position: 16189 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list --part1_c0d.5dff8821.37e1443a_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 9/15/2009 15:02:51 Eastern Daylight Time, adam.raizen@gmail.com writes: > If you were immersed in a foreign-language culture for all your waking > hours with no other possible language to communicate with, and in a culture > that you saw yourself as a part of, you too would learn the language > fluently, and in far less than the approximately 6 years that children take to > attain fluency. > Maybe. Children attain fluency in their first language in far less than six years. Most of that time is spent acquiring vocabulary. stevo --part1_c0d.5dff8821.37e1443a_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In a messag= e dated 9/15/2009 15:02:51 Eastern Daylight Time, adam.raizen@gmail.com wr= ites:


If you were immersed in= a foreign-language culture for all your waking hours with no other possib= le language to communicate with, and in a culture that you saw yourself as= a part of, you too would learn the language fluently, and in far less tha= n the approximately 6 years that children take to attain fluency.


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Children attain fluency in their first language in far less than six= years.  Most of that time is spent acquiring vocabulary.

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