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children do pick up languages extreemly easly under the age of 8, which is something that i learnt on my child care course, chomsky and skinner were the two ideologist that paint very good pictures on how children learn.

Diamond Mum.....I'm reader of Chomsky, I think he has very interesting things to say about languages, even when some of his ideas can't be replicated. Lately he did came outand said "he's wrong on many levels on his take about children and language acquisition".

you are good to be doing spanish as well... i was doing potugues, but the similarities had me very confused, as some of the words just seem like variations... so im sticking to french at the mo...

Yep, I work with two spanish speakers and they have been helping me.And so far so good, it's an easy language to learn.

do you not get the french and spanish mixed ??

Yes.For me,I also know some Italian(both my parents/grand-parents speak italian-In somalia wheremy parents arefrom it was a part of national language before we took ind. from Italy), and if one knows Spanish.......he or she understands Italian very well. So, learningspanish, your also learning some Tuscan dialect.