On the Teaching of Modern Languages in Theory and Practice

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University Press, 1887 - Languages, Modern - 87 pages

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Page 13 - ... that while the powers of the mind usually strengthen as years advance, at least until the end of middle life, the faculty of learning a new language decays almost in an inverse ratio. The short period of six months is said to be enough to perfect a clever child in a new language ; and a child very rarely confuses different languages : if the weight becomes too great for his memory one language drives out the other. They are learned as a whole and forgotten as a whole. Modern languages, then,...

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