The Myth of Learning Language “Like a Two-Year Old”
January 11th, 2008
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You often hear the quip, “Learning languages is easy. If a two-year old can do it, why can’t you?”
Of course this misses the point. Actually, the perprtrator of this myth glosses over several truths with the attempt at humor. Too bad that this humor turns out to have a mean underbelly, a less-than-nice (subtle) set of implications.
Here are the problems with learning language as a two-year old does.
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