Re: Is there an optimal sequence for language acquisition?


Joachim Pense wrote:
> Am 3 Dec 2005 01:52:38 -0800 schrieb leuwarden@xxxxxxxxx:
>
> >

> I think this also holds for listening. Formal language like news is of
> course

!!! of course! practically nobody knows or understands this. they
all think that the easiest thing would be to learn some kind of
everyday language. why are you interested in this question? it is an
endless subject, because...

..... young people do not learn the same as older ones

..... people who are used to books do not learn the same as those who
never read a thing

..... and the motivation! the inclination! if your new girl friend
speaks Chinese, you'll speak Chinese by Christmas

> " much easier than e.g. movie dialogue.
>
> So what would be a good order? Read, listen to news, write, speak?

I only know about English, and English is non-typical as a language in
many regards. Still,
I found that women learn more easily than men and that the best
learners, those that learn almost as if in a dream, do not get very
far; they seem to pick a language up as if they had an empty tape in
their brains and then they do not have any use for it.

there is yet another problem: what is the aim? at what point do you
really *know* a language?

For most adult people it would be necessary to read and write; spoken
exercises are too strenuous for them. But most people hate writing and
reading. They try to memorize instead. They fail.



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> Joachim

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