The Gordian Principle of Language Learning

Les Apple: I understood very early on that the key sort of, again, call it the Gordian, not for measuring where we are in a language is how many words we know. With words, you get the rest of it,. You get the grammar, everything flows from having words. And yet, and so there are many books on learning vocabulary in another language. And yet it all boils down here again, vocabulary, description, acquisition, and pedagogy. It goes vocabulary and language teaching. We just book here, Les Apple friend on this broke, how languages are learned; he'll be back next week to talk about English as a second language.