Re: How to prime kids to learn 3+ languages?

"Peter" == Peter T Daniels <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Peter> If they'd had no use for English or French, they'd have
Peter> "forgotten" their English or French just as readily.

Can such "forgotten" languages (or any skills) be recovered easily?
Any formal studies on this?

You know, one can usually pick up again a long unpractised skill in a
pretty short amount of time. The knowledge is still there dormant in
the brain. You just need to "wake" it "up". Does this apply to
languages?



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