From: Alejandro Dubrovsky (s328940@student.uq.edu.au)
Date: Thu May 16 2002 - 00:05:25 MDT
On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 15:20, Olga Bourlin wrote:
> From: "Dossy" <dossy@panoptic.com>
> To: <extropians@extropy.org>
>
>
> > On 2002.05.15, Olga Bourlin <fauxever@sprynet.com> wrote:
> > >mj From: "Dossy" <dossy@panoptic.com>
> > > To: <extropians@extropy.org>
> > > Cc: "J. W. Harris" <index@cox.net>
> >
> > > > > What age should I start teaching my son a second language?
> > > >
> > > > Birth. Totally serious. The sooner you start, the sooner they'll
> > > > learn it. There is no such thing as too early.
> > >
> > > Buy why?
> >
> > Because it's easier to learn languages at a young age than it is
> > as an adult.
>
> No argument there - of course it is. But that still doesn't answer my
> question - "But why?" So a child learns a new language. Then what? The
> language doesn't "stay" without a lot of high maintenance (and a language
> will be forgotten faster than it took to learn it in the first place).
because it's much easier to relearn once it's forgotten, not to mention
that pronounciation is much better by people who have heard the sounds
while very young (that is, if they hear it from native speakers. from
non-native i suppose it might even hurt pronounciation, but that is pure
speculation).
Alejandro
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