Re: reality?

On Sat, 2 Jan 1999 19:02:07 +0200 vardi <vardi@...> writes:
>> Would you care to expound on that?
>Always glad to expound:) Just as people often have the feeling that
>they've been in a particular place or situation before (deja vu), so I
>feel sometimes that there's some inherent or innate aspect of
>language.
>That's why I mentioned about my little son: it often seems to me that
>he
>already knows vastly more language than he's producing (not a
>revolutionary idea - the passive command of all learners is greater
>than
>their active command). The way he deals with the language he's given
>seems more than repetition or the simple substition of items in
>sentences. And as for myself: I grew up in England, basically as a
>monolingual child, but with an awareness and some knowledge of Hebrew
>from a very early age. Again, I always felt there was more Hebrew
>"inside me," and the first time I came here (to Israel) when I was 16
>I
>was talking fairly fluently within a few weeks. I'm not talking here
>about liking languages or being good at them, though I guess that's
>part
>of it, but about a deeper connection to languages. That's what I meant
>by linguistic deja vu.
>
>Hope I made some sense.
>
>        Shaul Vardi

You definitely did....that's sorta the way i felt when i was studying for
my Yiddish final - as if the language was somewhere there in the back of
my head and i was just "remembering" it or something....very scary, but
cool.  It's the vocab that's the problem, though :)

-Stephen (Steg)

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