Peep this. So I’m in Vancouver. And I’m hungry for something awesome to put into my mouth. So I go into this Persian bakery, because that’s a good place to find awesome things to put into my mouth. So I’m walking in and guess what I see? A Persian bakery, with Very good-looking Persian people in it Including a gorgeous young woman (typical college age?) manning the till…well, the entire store, really Persian music playing, and A guy at a table reading a newspaper — in Farsi! …And you still wonder how people can have accents (including the young person)? Let’s review. The people at this bakery were doing full spectrum Persian immersion — no cross-language multiplexing. They were: Hearing Persian, Reading Persian, Speaking Persian, and EATING Persian Now imagine this happening every day for 20 years… Where’s your critical period god now, skeptics?! Huh?! My point here is: children aren’t magical. They’re just bad at immersion; they’re bad at controlling their environment. Children don’t even get to choose what to eat and when to sleep. Adults are amazing. Adults can re-create one country inside another. Reminds me of the American parties with American food and American people playing American […]
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