Let's work on initial consonants. 'Say bah.look at my lips!'Again, no response.There was a theory going around then, that a a lot of people still believe that children don't really want to acquire language , you have to kind of force it out of them.So I tried that: I won't give you the ball until you say ball.That didn't work either. No matter what i said , Itomi wouldn't speak.She didn't say anything the first week, she didn't say anything the second week, the first month, the second month, five months until she started to speak.Actually, that's not entirely true.
>> comprehensible input - One way only one way to acquire a language

On the other hand, we were in a German class and we could hang together for a couple of weeks. say an hour a day of German, and I could keep the input light and lively. as in the second example.you'd start to acquire German.It would come on its own. And eventually you'd start to talk, your speaking ability would emerge gradually.
>> comprehensible input - One way only one way to acquire a language

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