On 8/5/13 4:45 AM, John F Sowa wrote:
> No! Children at the age of 3 or 4 are learning dozens of words per day.
> They don't look up words in the dictionary. They may occasionally ask
> somebody about a "hard" word, but they learn words from context without
> even thinking about them. (01)
I learned an entire language without a dictionary. The Edo language from
Nigeria is part of my heritage. I was born in the UK and my parents took
me to Nigeria at age 7. I learned to speak the language fluently (within
2-3 years) without reading a single book or looking at a single
dictionary. To this very day, I can understand and speak it fluently,
but I can't actually write in this language without the aid of an Edo
dictionary and thesaurus. (02)
BTW -- during the same period (and beyond) I failed woefully at trying
to learn French and German (from afar) using dictionaries :-) (03)
-- (04)
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