[lojban] Re: Fwd: lojban and raising a child bi-lingual

[MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com]

In a message dated 9/15/2009 15:02:51 Eastern Daylight Time, adam.raizen@gmail.com writes:


> 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. 
Children attain fluency in their first language in far less than six years.  Most of that time is spent acquiring vocabulary.

stevo