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Subject: Re: English Language in Paris Posted on: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 10:02:57 MST

On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 10:07:50 -0500, erilar
wrote:

>In article ,
> Hatunen wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 03:35:40 +0200, Mxsmanic
>> wrote:
>>
>> >Dave Smith writes:
>> >
>> >> Schools in Canada and the US seem not to have great success teaching
>> >> languages, but they tend to start too late for the students to pick them up
>> >> easily.
>> >
>> >Age is not a barrier to language acquisition.
>>
>> Are you familiar with the work of people like Noam Chomsky and
>> Stephen Pinker?
>
>People who make statements like the one from from Mxsmanic have
>obviously read nothing related to language acquisition.

He claims to know about it, but he doesn't beleive it.

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