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Does that suggest that you could arrange a kind of course that all children got, which taught the union of all phonemes of all common languages, without teachin
by Smaug123 3y ago
Does that suggest that you could arrange a kind of course that all children got, which taught the union of all phonemes of all common languages, without teaching much of the languages themselves? And thereby future-proof the child with the bits you can't learn as an adult, in case they wanted to learn any particular language later?
- TechBro8615 3y agoProbably yes, and I think this is what a lot of rich people do with their kids, at least in terms of exposing them to vastly differing languages like Mandarin and English. I do wonder if there's some limit on the number of phonemes you can learn, and how many hours are required to "solidify" a phoneme. But I definitely think the idea of a "unity course" is a good one. Personally I had a French "class" in elementary school, where I barely learned anything - I certainly can't speak French - but I can pronounce French words better than I can pronounce any Spanish words (despite three years of Spanish class in college). Those French classes were basically just learning to count to 100 and singing songs like "alouette."