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Re:Can Duolingo actually teach you Spanish? by duckmysick on Saturday December 10, 2022 @06:11AM (#33931643)
> 99.99% of the population picked up their mother tongue just like everybody else.

They have - over the course of many years, completely submerged in the environment of their mother tongue, when they had an abundance of leisure time.

Re:Can Duolingo actually teach you Spanish? by aaron_m04 on Saturday December 10, 2022 @12:27PM (#33934498)
Not to mention their brains had more plasticity than an adult's.