[Ronin4hire]

I've been reading the debate between nyororin and chachava and I'll just say that they're both right AND wrong. I agree with chachava on the main point.

It is true in the way babies learn their FIRST language as the way Nyororin describes. Also they can pick up a second language quite easily in a similar way at a young age. However as you get older your brain develops a "way" of thinking in the language(s) you've acquired at a young age and it takes a conscious effort (i.e. lessons) AS WELL AS being immersed in the language to obtain near fluent proficiency in a second language as a teenager/adult.