Re: Spanish and Portuguese

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From: Gerry Reinhart-Waller <waluk@...>
To: <cybalist@egroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2000 7:45 PM
Subject: [cybalist] Re: Spanish and Portuguese


> 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

Maybe because little babies don't "learn" native language at all? They just
learn speaking a human language and its syntax is as natural as air composition
or gravitation. It seems to be the only possible way of speaking. Later any
other language will look like something not natural. Maybe so?

Alexander