From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Sep 22 08:37:04 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:37:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Mq7QN-0003K2-P0 for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:37:04 -0700 Received: from imr-da03.mx.aol.com ([205.188.105.145]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Mq7QI-0003JO-OD for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:37:03 -0700 Received: from imo-da02.mx.aol.com (imo-da02.mx.aol.com [205.188.169.200]) by imr-da03.mx.aol.com (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id n8MFajSk018995 for ; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:36:45 -0400 Received: from MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com by imo-da02.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v42.5.) id d.cdf.5837e279 (65097) for ; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:36:43 -0400 (EDT) From: MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com Message-ID: Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:36:43 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_cdf.5837e279.37ea490b_boundary" X-Mailer: 6.0 for Windows XP sub 11501 X-Spam-Flag:NO X-AOL-SENDER: MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com X-archive-position: 16236 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_cdf.5837e279.37ea490b_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 9/22/2009 11:26:25 Eastern Daylight Time, adam@pubcrawler.org writes: > says everything I would want to, only better. Particularly the "Children > learn language easily" part (wish there were an internal anchor there). > Short > version: learning languages is really hard, and children don't tend to do > it > if they can at all avoid it. > If it were hard, then why is it that every kid in the world who is even approximately normal physically (able to hear and/or see, make utterances, think) learns the language of the people around him, without anyone teaching him. In some cultures (El Salvador hills) the kids' speech is ignored until they're able to speak more than baby talk. And the kids still learn it. mu'o mie stevon --part1_cdf.5837e279.37ea490b_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In a messag= e dated 9/22/2009 11:26:25 Eastern Daylight Time, adam@pubcrawler.org writ= es:


says everything I would= want to, only better.  Particularly the "Children
learn language easily" part (wish there were an internal anchor there)= .  Short
version: learning languages is really hard, and children don't tend to= do it
if they can at all avoid it.


If it were hard, then why is it that every kid in the world who is eve= n approximately normal physically (able to hear and/or see, make utterance= s, think) learns the language of the people around him, without anyone tea= ching him. In some cultures (El Salvador hills) the kids' speech is ignore= d until they're able to speak more than baby talk.  And the kids stil= l learn it.

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