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Learning a Foreign Language

Stuff You Should Know

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The Importance of Vocabulary in Language Acquisition

The only way to settle this is for us to get in a Skinner box and debate. That's between electric jolts. We'll take a break in a sec. But before we do, like you were talking about, that sort of process for kids, their vocabulary grows very quickly from the time they start learning up until about the age of eight. And their vocabulary still grows for sure. Like it never stops. I still learn new words all the time.

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