It's equally mind boggling that tweens and teens can understand and speak a made up language but cannot understand or speak a language like Spanish or French taught in school, amirite?

+119 It's equally mind boggling that tweens and teens can understand and speak a made up language but cannot understand or speak a language like Spanish or French taught in school, amirite?

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Replacing the words of their mother tongue is quite different from studying the grammatical structure, vocabulary and pronunciations of a foreign language, nevertheless it is still remarkable how fast they can think up and learn of such constructs in comparison to adults

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Are you implying that other languages weren't made up? 😏

by Anonymous 2 years ago

The goal is not to be understood by adults / in academic settings.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I'm sorry what??

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Are you talking about slang that is still based on and structured around English?

by Anonymous 2 years ago