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Re: Independent study of foreign languages
Posted By: Travholt, on host 195.139.102.57
Date: Sunday, December 17, 2000, at 08:43:06
In Reply To: Re: Independent study of foreign languages posted by Howard on Sunday, December 17, 2000, at 06:49:22:

> The best time to learn a foreign language is when
you are a small child. The younger, the better.

I was in a church group who went to Kenya two and a
half years ago, where we stayed with a Kenyan family.
The little four year old daughter in the house was fluent
in English, Swahili and Luo (the native language) and
would switch between them instantly and naturally
whenever appropriate. She'd talk to us in english, talk
to her family in Luo and talk to non-Luo's in Swahili.
Mighty impressive.

-Trav"I wish I had a multi-language childhood"holt

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