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

["Adam D. Lopresto" <adam@pubcrawler.org>]

On Mon, 14 Sep 2009, MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com wrote:

> In a message dated 9/14/2009 16:42:46 Eastern Daylight Time,
> selckiku@gmail.com writes:
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>       Learning a language is difficult for anyone, even a child.  
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> Hardly.  Children learn a language with no effort at all.

I'm tempted to chime in on the other side, but I think

http://zompist.com/whylang.html

says everything I would want to, only better.  Particularly the "Children
learn language easily" part (wish there were an internal anchor there).  Short
version: learning languages is really hard, and children don't tend to do it
if they can at all avoid it.
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Adam Lopresto
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