Re: Why can't daddy?

Lee Sau Dan wrote:

"Ruud" == Ruud Harmsen <realemailseesite13@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>> How much time a day does a child spend on learning a language?

Ruud> 14 hours a day?

>> How much time a day can an adult afford on learning a language?

Ruud> 20 hours a week, if an intensive course, otherwise 3.

Based on these guesstimations, a child learning a language over 3
years spends 50% more time than an adult taking an intensive course
for 10 years.

I believe any adult taking an intensive course of a second language X
for 10 years will be more fluent in a language than any 3 year-old
child who speaks language X natively. In addition, the adult should
be literate by that time, whereas the 3-year-old still needs to learn
to read.

So, aren't adults learning languages more efficiently than infants?

Your religious faith, however touching, has nothing whatsoever to do
with the facts.
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@xxxxxxx
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