On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 22:25,
<MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com> 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?
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Children attain fluency in their first language in far less than six years. ÂMost of that time is spent acquiring vocabulary.
Not the children I know.