Re: Spanish and Portuguese

From: Marc Verhaegen
Message: 822
Date: 2000-01-09

>To Marc and Alexander: Why do you think that native kids have little
problem learning the syntax of their native language whereas schoolkids have
more difficulty learning another language? Gerry

There's a "sensitive" period, as often in biological learning. After 10
years or so, new languages are much more difficult to learn.

--Marc