• mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca
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      you have missed the point. you don’t need to know any other languages to use this approach.

      • A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl
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        what??

        how would that work???, living alone in the jungle until adulthood and only then learning?

        or is a shit americans say kind of thing?

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          not sure what OP meant, but it reminded me of the forced assimilation of peoples in a colonial setting, where a potential scenario is that

          • the grandparents speak their native language fluently, and the dominating language almost not at all
          • the parents speak both the native and the dominating language, but badly
          • the kids speak the dominating language fluently, and the native language almost not at all

          So in that case the parents can be seen as not having a proper native language, because they have two languages they can sorta make work, but can’t fully express nuance and complex thought in either.

          • A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl
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            Then said language is not their native language.

            The nativa language is the first one you learnt as a kid, the one your parents taught you.

            So it is a “Shit americans say” after all.