[PRCo] Re: Kennywood being sold:

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Fred Schneider wrote:

> The problem with taking foreign languages is that we fail to
> comprehend just how much time it took us to learn the first or native
> language.   It isn't going to be any easier to learn the second one.
> List to two, three, four, and five year old kids around you ....
> Then ten-year olds.   And fifteen year olds.  And twenty-year olds.
> It takes a whole lot of effort to learn to speak properly.   But you
> didn't know how much effort you were putting it to it as you grew
> up.   You just did it.
>
> It is going to take just as much effort to learn that second
> langage.   Just as much practice.   Just as much interaction with
> other people.   Then eventually you get it.


Interacting with a teacher for 40 minutes 5 days a week wasn't going to do 
it.