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

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Tuesday 15 September 2009 15:00:54 Adam Raizen 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.

But if you did this as an adult, and had not previously learnt the accent of 
the language or enough phones to cover it, you would sound like a foreigner, 
however fluent you may be.

Some aspects of learning a language are effortless; others take great effort. 
In phonetics, I picked up that, in Spanish, /n/ at the end of a word is often 
pronounced [ŋ] (Salvadoran accent), but I spent lots of time practicing "Ere 
con ere cigarro" and "Didon dîna, dit-on" and other tongue twisters.

Pierre


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