When Sebastian was three months old, a dear friend came to visit along with her almost three-year-old. The two ages seemed (and were) worlds apart. I was astonished, for example, at the completely understandable sentences my friend’s daughter could say. It was hard to imagine my little proto-human ever being like this walking, talking, little…
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>Count it out
> When I was getting my endorsement to teach English as a Second Language, one of my professors told us that people learn languages to do things they want to do with people who speak that language. She was trying to show us not only why students learn the practical parts of a language before the academic…
