How Children Learn
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- From late August 2007 to mid-August 2008 I and my family visited
Palo Alto, California (near San Francisco; the location of Stanford
University).
- We have made very little effort to educate my daughter in English.
- From an early age, she could hear and produce all English sounds
(e.g., no "L" vs. "R" confusion).
- Japanese is more important, because English speakers are much more
tolerant of non-native variants of English than Japanese speakers
are of non-native Japanese.
- "Papa, Papa, how do you say 'ice cream' in English?"
- Yet in one year, she became fluent enough in English that she could
read and enjoy "randomized messages" in English. How? Why?
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