command line vs gui 7001

I was paying attention to a bilingual families mailing list for a while, and I learned that there were several cases where the immigrant parent after several years hadn't learned the local language to any useful level.

I'm also believing that there are very few people that have learned a language at adult age to such a perfection that a native speaker could believe the person to be a fellow native speaker. I know quite some people that learned my native language-dialect at adult age, and none of them speaks it perfect.

I think that for immersion to work, it has to be more or less full-time - that is, one really should stay in the country where the language is spoken while learning it. I don't believe "only" immersion would work out for the average adult, one would most probably have to do some studying of glossary and rules using dictionaries, books and-or teachers.

I also believe the reason is that the adult brain is more hard-wired, but another plausible reason may be that it is immensily annoying for an average adult to be unable to communicate properly. A baby have to go through it, an adult usually have options.

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