8 Mar
2000
8 Mar
'00
5:14 a.m.
Well, like when I asked a friend of mine to help me with my German
(20-year native speaker)...every specific question was met with, "I don't
*know* vy, ve just say it zat vay..."
On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, John Wilson wrote:
Kids have it easy since their brains are a lot more
receptive to just picking
up patterns w/o basing them on rules. So when they learn a language, they
just get a feel for what "sounds right" and that's it, the rules of
grammar
can come as a total shock to them years later but they were obeying most
of them all along anyway.