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Learning a Foreign Language

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The Importance of Phonemes in Language Acquisition

Noam Chomsky was a great critic of Noam Chomsky as well, but he was very interesting. A kid can learn many languages. There really is not like a limit. You know, there are outliers where kids like these little phenoms learn to learn six, seven, eight languages. But your average just sort of bilingual kid raised in a bilingual household is very common these days. And it's not the case where if you're teaching your child Spanish, you know, when they're growing up as well as English, you're not going to fall behind.

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