ss20ts Wrote:She speaks fluent English without an accent even though she came to the US as an adult. That part I have never been able to figure out.Certainly unusual. Native ability plus intelligence and motivation, I guess. My hat's off to her. In a similar vein, I read an article about a Polish girl of 16, who came over here to Toronto Ont., with her folks. She knew NO English at all when she got here. 18 months later, she won the Senior High School English prize for the entire city - population 2.9 million+. I've tried to learn a little Polish, and I can tell you I won't be winning any prizes in Warsaw!
Language plasticity - the ease of learning new languages - has started to dry up, usually around age 12. That's right around the time most school systems start teaching languages. That's why - or partly why - people take languages in school and can't use them later. The rest of it is - as you said, horrible teaching.Your son did well to go "right to the source." Best decision possible.
As to how fluent ClepKing will be in 6 months - that depends on a lot of things ... but how fluent will he be if he doesn't work at it for 6 months?
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