> We seem to just pick up our native language so easily as we're growing up, but it seems difficult to pick up a new language with the same ease later on. Easi

> We seem to just pick up our native language so easily as we're growing up, but it seems difficult to pick up a new language with the same ease later on. Easily? It takes many thousands of hours to learn our native language in the first few years of life. > I started with learning the sounds of the language first (and how to pronounce the written language) which set up the framework for learning words and phrases later on. That’s not how language acquisition works. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiTsduRreug https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiTsduRreug https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FRKBxLvKmw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FRKBxLvKmw