How do children learn their mother tongue

If you want to learn a foreign language, you need to have good command of your mother tongue. There is no doubt that babies and toddlers learn a language in a different way than do adults. Until the late 1950's, behavioral researchers were of the opinion that babies are born without any linguistic disposition. As a result of further examinations, it became clear that acquiring a language as well as acquiring human behavior is based on stimulus-response mechanisms. If the child frequently gets in touch with these stimuli and is encouraged, he will learn to repeat the sounds that have triggered a positive reaction in a similar situation. Does this mean,through the eyes of the behavioral researchers, that second language acquisition concentrates on learning certain language patterns by heart?
One of the most convincing arguments against this theory of children's language acquisition is: If children could only learn a language by imitating sounds, they were only able to use words and sentences that they have heard before. However, babies and toddlers use real words and structures to create new words. As a result of this, researchers came to the conclusion that babies have the ability to acquire language from birth on. The researcher Chomsky has shown that each human being has a disposition to develop language. By seeing how language is used, children finally learn to use it themselves

Winston Churchill's MasterPiece Quotes

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won

Eating words has never given me indigestion

Great and good are seldom the same man

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter

I never worry about action, but only inaction

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another

If you are going through hell, keep going

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice

India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop

Never, never, never give up

No comment" is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business

Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see

The first quality that is needed is audacity

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself
The price of greatness is responsibility

There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life