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How do those tiny little language prodigies learn languages?

Asked by quarkquarkquark (1695points) May 11th, 2009

I see 8-year-olds on TV who speak ten languages, thirty-year-olds who speak fifty, etc… These younger ones have never taken classes or listened to tapes, the older ones don’t have the time to be fully immersed in fifty cultures. How are language savants exposed to these languages that they become so fluent?

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