How can an adult learn like a small child?

You don’t have to proceed exactly like a child. (Although in many cases that would actually be the most effective technique.) Where the child would run after a ball, the adult is permitted to walk. But you will have to get up from your easy chair, otherwise you will not catch the ball. If you want to communicate fluently and naturally, you must, in some way, recreate the steps of speaking that are part of your genetic heritage as a human being. The essence of these partly forgotten behaviours within you will resemble what infants do.

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