Why Take Years To Acquire a First Language?
• For the verbal part of the first language: • A baby’s brain is not fully matured. • As the baby’s brain is a blank sheet, there is no memory anchor to help him or her to memorize. Every new data must be anchored via self-anchoring, a repeated drilling. • The mother tongue is always learned as a living habit (as a chaotic data set) even for a Type B language. • For the written part of the first language: • Although the verbal part of the language can now be an anchor for learning the written part, most of the written part data (especially words, vocabulary, etc.) are still taught as chaotic data: • For alphabetic phonetic language — the verbal does become a great anchor even while the written part data is presented as a chaotic data set. • For non-alphabetic phonetic language (such as Chinese language) — the verbal does not become a good anchor. • For type A or type C language, there is an inherent difficulty in learning that language. • Although Chinese written language is a type B
