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I ended up doing four or five plays in college and being an English major with my thesis in language acquisition, which I was planning to study in graduate school. -- Carrie Coon
Das mine!' protested Ava, Bennie's daughter, affirming Alex's recent theory that language acquisition involved a phase of speaking German. She snatched a plastic skillet away from his own daughter, Cara-Ann, who lurched after it, roaring, 'Mine pot! Mine pot! -- Jennifer Egan
UG [universal grammar] may be regarded as a characterization of the genetically determined language faculty. One may think of thisfaculty as a 'language acquisition device,' an innate component of the human mind that yields a particular language through interaction with present experience, a device that converts experience into a system of knowledge attained: knowledge of one or another language. -- Noam Chomsky
What is a nation without a mother tongue? -- Jack Edwards
As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue. -- Roger Ascham
Learn Languages the Right Way. Language acquisition games and abstract communicative method are bullshit. The second-best way to learn a foreign language is alone in a room doing skull-numbing rote memorization of vocabulary, grammar, key phrases, and colloquialisms. The best way is in bed. -- Chuck Thompson
To use two languages familiarly and without contaminating one by the other, is very difficult; and to use more than two is hardly to be hoped. The prizes which some have received for their multiplicity of languages may be sufficient to excite industry, but can hardly generate confidence. -- Samuel Johnson
A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen. -- Anna Seward
Literacy, written language is a very late acquisition in terms of human evolution. -- Jean Berko Gleason

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