Make credence recognised that on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 15:46:21 -0700,
Hatunen has scripted:
>On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 17:48:04 +0200, Mxsmanic
>wrote:
>
>>Hatunen writes:
>>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?
Or perhaps his mom was wrong.
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