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?
Children attain fluency in their first language in far less than six years. Most of that time is spent acquiring vocabulary.
Not the children I know.