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- Newsgroups: misc.kids
- Path: sparky!uunet!das.wang.com!wang!news
- From: AMY.UHRBACH@OFFICE.WANG.COM ("Amy Uhrbach")
- Subject: re: adding French
- Organization: Mail to News Gateway at Wang Labs
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 14:10:26 GMT
- Message-ID: <199212211409.AA24085@tuna.wang.com>
- Sender: news@wang.com
- Lines: 7
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- Yup, you're right Dena. It is NATIVE fluency most people can't attain after
- puberty.
-
- BTW, there are some people for whom this doesn't seem to hold - they do pick
- up languages easily, and develop true fluency. Interestingly, there seems to
- be a link between this skill and having learned MORE THAN ONE language as a
- child! I'm always mildly envious of them...:-)
-