What a great line:
“You’re learning like a child, only—I hate to tell you—you’re not as cute.”
Babies have a language advantage: Cuteness!
No language-learning program knows what it’s talking about when they say they can show you how to learn a language like a baby. There’s no other way.
My kids revealed the secrets of language-learning to me. I was teaching them Russian with they were between 4 and 7 years old. I spoke with them and they went to a Russian class for an hour per week.
I knew the difficulties of learning Russian, but I was fluent by that point, even having worked as an interpreter and translator. I had figured out the tricky parts of the grammar, but my kids’ grammar was hopeless. I didn’t know what to do.
I told their teacher that the kids always messed up verb conjugations and noun declensions, so that all verbs were second person and all feminine nouns were in the accusative. He smiled and said…
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