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

Peter T. Daniels skreiv:

On Oct 2, 10:16 am, phogl...@xxxxxx wrote:

On 2 loka, 16:01, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Oct 2, 6:21 am, phogl...@xxxxxx wrote:

On 2 loka, 07:17, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Oct 1, 8:37 pm, pkeb...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

We're looking for methodologies and materials to prime child from 3 month of age for multiple language acquisition. [...]

[...] There's no such thing as "priming."

Of course there is. However, it does not turn out the way parents expect. My home was quite full of Mom's old textbooks in many languages. I used to read her French textbooks, and I acquired a
passive vocabulary that does help me significantly when I encounter French text. So, I guess I was kind of primed. However, to this day I don't speak, write, read or understand French - i.e., I do have the elementary idea of French that I have of many languages (including Persian, Arabic, and Hebrew), but I have no proficiency in it. In fact, if anything, that "priming" has bereft me of any curiosity regarding French. Of course, it was one of the reasons why I started to learn languages at all, but that's all.-

Which is neither what OP was asking about, nor a reasonable use of the English word "priming."

Well, what does it mean then?-

It means doing some preliminary work needed or helpful in getting the
main work done. The most common usage is "priming the pump," an archaic task involving pouring a little water into the pumphead to get the vacuum going that actually lifts the water.

Since in the case you describe, no subsequent main task was
accomplished, no priming had taken place.

That's odd. "Preliminary work needed or helpful in getting the main work done" is fine, but I can't see why the accomplishment of the whole project is relevant to the description of the intentions in the initial phase.

In my field of less limited knowledge, steel structural members may even in some circumstances intentionally be primed but never painted. There's some mention of it in an American context here:

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