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

[MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com]

In a message dated 9/22/2009 11:26:25 Eastern Daylight Time, adam@pubcrawler.org writes:


> 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.


If it were hard, then why is it that every kid in the world who is even approximately normal physically (able to hear and/or see, make utterances, think) learns the language of the people around him, without anyone teaching him. In some cultures (El Salvador hills) the kids' speech is ignored until they're able to speak more than baby talk.  And the kids still learn it.

mu'o mie stevon