> If you're trying to learn a language, you should learn the way children learn their first language: by speaking. this is a sufficiently awful way to learn a

> If you're trying to learn a language, you should learn the way children learn their first language: by speaking. this is a sufficiently awful way to learn a language that kids only do it because they've got to. (see the language acquisition literature.) > If you don't know anyone who speaks the language, what are you learning it for? argument by lack of imagination?