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[lojban-beginners] Re: Starting to learn... but how?
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- Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Starting to learn... but how?
- From: Dominic van Berkel <nazgjunk@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 20:21:53 +0200
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On Tuesday 15 May 2007 19:16, m.kornig@sondal.net wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I believe most people start learning a language by
> listening. Listening to others, recognizing and
> repeating certain sounds: names, other isolated words,
> maybe short phrases. Then, at the same time or
> sometime later (it doesn't really matter), they find
> out about the meaning: which object or person the
> sound refers to, in which situation it may be employed,
> etc.
>
> This seems to be the way kids learn their mother
> tongue. According to my experience this method
> works equally well for adults.
Not quite as well. If I remember correctly kids are able to do this without
pointers from another language until the age of 11. Adults really need
guidance in a language they already know.
Dominic van Berkel / pocev
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