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From: eric@washu.UUCP (Eric Kiebler)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Quack, quack, I'm an American
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Date: Sun, 9-Oct-83 16:13:33 EDT
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Posted: Sun Oct  9 16:13:33 1983
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And what incentive is there for an American to learn another
language? The best time to learn a another language is during
childhood.  It seems that this is also the hardest period to
get excited about such an activity.  I feel that if there was
an apparent need to learn a language *which could be effectively
conveyed* to children and their parents then we would see more
people learning and enjoying foreign languge (and English!)
studies.  This also applies to music lessons.  The vast majority
of my musician-type friends *hated* to practice when they were
young, but did so to escape the "Wrath of Mom".  They are happy now
that they spent the time then.  

So, my point is:  the culprit is not laziness, but rather
lack of incentive.

eric
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