From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Sep 15 12:30:05 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:30:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Mndj2-0002K7-KV for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:30:05 -0700 Received: from mail-yx0-f197.google.com ([209.85.210.197]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Mndiy-0002Gc-KT for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:30:04 -0700 Received: by yxe35 with SMTP id 35so14775424yxe.2 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:29:54 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=V5y7iMEdlrcTTt9swNZLn4AfIvO10SK5sPGkkVZpT2c=; b=eClDCsSfYUgjLpCl2MBE650R3DwBk2ca0xfszjIiyij/nvLjnxw+u1RQrRXO1w5pDj b27SEPvW8bGYcfJ+Eo4SHYig1U58BZGz0FqWYXwjmEXqhhd9KxcuXuZhKpdcCYANfmO8 3vY+2MGfT38AXvEflwIcvTUe/0nXNDfb2D5jc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=kon988Zb+rf4xFvrVA2B6cyqQ/5Rbi89U2VSrv9lQQUYZArz/BpSWt1vY5Lv0vWtQb i9sE01lcCallpgH9ro4QN0WNgwbJVM5Ccp90qrcbY3oSO2c0Tfeqt0bZKEvZlWz8tEwz EURWmcFU6XmI8z45TQRkVwqjm0eQAuBJc4xpA= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.90.173.8 with SMTP id v8mr4792138age.98.1253042993860; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:29:53 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:29:53 +0300 Message-ID: Subject: [lojban] Re: Fwd: lojban and raising a child bi-lingual From: Adam Raizen To: lojban-list@lojban.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=0016362846ba8996f50473a2ce32 X-archive-position: 16190 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: adam.raizen@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list --0016362846ba8996f50473a2ce32 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 22:25, wrote: > 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. > I don't see how you could question that. Do you really think you could spend six years in a monolingual environment and not learn the language? > Children attain fluency in their first language in far less than six years. > Most of that time is spent acquiring vocabulary. > Not the children I know. -- Adam Raizen Timendi causa est nescire. --0016362846ba8996f50473a2ce32 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 22:25, = <Morp= hemeAddict@wmconnect.com> wrote:
If you were immersed in a fo= reign-language culture for all your waking hours with no other possible lan= guage 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 ap= proximately 6 years that children take to attain fluency.


Maybe.=20

I don't see how you could quest= ion that. Do you really think you could spend six years in a monolingual en= vironment and not learn the language?
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Children a= ttain fluency in their first language in far less than six years. =C2=A0Mos= t of that time is spent acquiring vocabulary.

Not the children I know.

--
Adam Raizen <adam.r= aizen@gmail.com>
Timendi causa est nescire.
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