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I don't know where. Where do you get some of foreign language knowledge? I don't have such place ready for you, yet here I am writing to you in a language that
by guard-of-terra 12y ago
I don't know where. Where do you get some of foreign language knowledge? I don't have such place ready for you, yet here I am writing to you in a language that is foreign to me.
"Why do the people who have it look at the people who don't with amusement?"
Because people who don't have it consistently praise the wrong thing.
- imgabe 12y agoYou get foreign language learning by looking at examples of the patterns used in a language and learning how to apply them. By your logic there should be a general "language skill" that anyone could use to immediately apprehend any language. No such thing exists.
- vegedor 12y agoThat's an open question, actually. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_grammar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_grammar
- guard-of-terra 12y agoYou also learn how to infer new patterns. When I started to learn English any non-normal form like 'ye olde' or 'lotsa' threw me into stupor. Now I can derive meaning from context while gaining better understanding.