On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 17:48:04 +0200, Mxsmanic
wrote:
>Hatunen writes:
>
>> How hard did you try when you were about two?
>
>Scarcely at all, according to my mom.
>
>Children put a huge amount of effort into learning a language because it's the
>only effective way to communicate, and because they will have difficulty
>socializing and being accepted if they cannot communicate. They spend a lot
>of their waking hours practicing, albeit not consciously and deliberately
>(usually). Still, it takes them a decade or so to get things right.
Pay attention here.
I said:
"They [children] do it without even trying."
You said:
"On the contrary, they try enormously hard, which is why they are
successful."
But now you say you scarcely tried at all. So are you retracting
your last claim above, or are you telling us you were
unsuccessful?
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