NPR - Lana Shlafer interview 4/5 - children, biggest misperception (NPR pt 9, NASK 2000 pt 17)

[petitalastair]

About her fear of overloading her children, children are knowledge sponges and can manage learning multiple languages.

Pri ŝia timo de troŝargi ŝiajn infanojn, infanoj estas lernspongoj kaj povas lerni multajn lingvojn.

[GwynnShadow]

The bit about the people who *want* to learn it, I'd never heard that before. I was always sceptical about Esperanto. I'm a native Dutch and Limburgish dialect speaker, started ESL classes at eight, learned French and German as part of the secondary school curriculum, and am now a Scandinavian Studies major in university (bringing the amount of understandable languages at eight). For me, Esperanto just doesn't seem very necessary. But I think I get the point a little bit better now.