Re: History of French

From: Ruud Harmsen (realemailseesite01_at_rudhar.com)
Date: 09/19/04 

Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 11:31:34 +0200

Sat, 18 Sep 2004 23:26:24 GMT: "Peter T. Daniels"
<grammatim@worldnet.att.net>: in sci.lang:

>> Perhaps L2 learning works better if instruction is avoided, the time
>> for it instead being devoted to more immersion? Has this been tried?
>
>Of course. Most immigrants can't afford to attend L2 classes; they're
>surrounded by the host language [...]

Are they? Aren't surrounded with their family and friends most of the
time?

>and make little advance in learning it. 

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