Re: Is there an optimal sequence for language acquisition?

In message <1133771513.690924.140560@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, leuwarden@xxxxxxxxx writes

Lee Sau Dan wrote: 
>>>>> "leuwarden" == leuwarden  <leuwarden@xxxxxxxxx> writes:



    leuwarden> partly, maybe, this is because until recently China was
    leuwarden> simply so far away.

But you've been  importing Chinese products for more  than 1000 years:
silk, tea.   And you've imported many  Chinese technologies: gunpowder
(and firework), magnetic compass, ...


I would have thought that tea was from India, and I did not know about
gunpowder. I had heard about Marco Polo,


Spaghetti?

but still, I simply do not
know anything about China. The Panda bear? the way they build roofs?
and a very beautiful one page story by  Franz Kafka and a fairy tale by
Hans Christian Andersen about a nightingale....but of these two I am
not completely sure that they are on a Chinese background.


You might do better to read Ernest Bramah's "Kai Lung" stories ;-)


And the
Great Wall that is also pictured in some  those famous Heinecken
landscape ads.


--
Richard Herring
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