Chapter 8

What I learned from this chapter was that language isn't just the spoken words but also the written dialect and the meanings of different symbols and gestures put together. If you wanted to teach someone more than one language the best age to get that done by is the age of seven because after that it is more complicated for the brain to grasp the concepts of the symbols and meanings of words for those different languages. Also, I learned that hueristics are not the most promising forms of making things more simple to learn, they just make them faster. Babies can understand there mother's native language more than they will pick up on another language because they are used to their mother's voice and so they will tune into the sound of it more and put together their actions or gestures and tones used.