[lojban-beginners] Re: Starting to learn... but how?

[m.kornig@sondal.net]

That's a good point, James. But...

kids learn a lot of
other things in the first few years, too. And they
learn to speak without any specific help (no language
teacher around, no special recordings to listen to, no
textbooks around, no systematic method etc.). I guess,
adults who concentrate on learning a lanuage and with
access to specific help can learn faster.

Learning a foreign language does take time. If you really
want to learn it well you want to go to a country where
the target language is spoken and work/live/study there
for about 2 years... If in addition, you take regular
lessons in that country you can probably accelerate this
a bit.

Just one hour per week (even with a good support/help)
and no pratice/exposure during the rest of the week is
not sufficient. Even if you are motivated and do that
for 10 years or so...

Of course learning skills, attitudes, etc. vary greatly
from person to person.

Martin

Selon james riley <jimr1603@gmail.com>:
> Remember how much time it took to learn your first language using that
> method? If you can expose yourself to a new language completely for 2 or 3
> years then you might be able to speak it fluently, but until I can afford
> that break I'll stick to my current methods.
>
> mu'o mi'e cmacis