Why can't daddy?



Why can't an adult pick up a language simply by listening to the sounds
of it - just like a child

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  • Re: Do children learn language more easily?
    ... Even if true (it's not --- my high school and college foreign language ... child can’t handle adult conversations, ... of the context of adult situations like bars and hotels, ... relative clauses, island constraints, pied piping, subject-aux inversion, ...
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  • Re: Five month old has stopped "cooing" and "blabbering"
    ... This can affect language development. ... of steps more advanced than what the child uses. ... understand a lot of rare words that the adult wouldn't ...
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  • Re: Why cant daddy?
    ... >> How much time a day can an adult afford on learning a language? ... a child learning a language over 3 ... years spends 50% more time than an adult taking an intensive course ...
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  • Re: Why cant daddy?
    ... >> How much time a day can an adult afford on learning a language? ... a child learning a language over 3 ... years spends 50% more time than an adult taking an intensive course ...
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  • Re: Attention RADP Friends:
    ... While it's *possible* that the child will be fine, it could also contribute to psychological damage causing him to have relationship problems in the future. ... that is why we as a society have decided that it is a serious offense for an adult to have sex with a minor. ... Even if the boy was in a fit of raging hormones and was very aggressive in pursuing the woman, as an adult, she has a duty to be the reasonable one and take control of such a situation. ... And if it was a mistake, to certainly not let it happen again. ...
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