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Referring to the beginning of his acquisition of French adventures, David Sedaris writes,

I'd hoped the language might come on its own, the way it comes to babies, but people don't talk to foreigners the way they talk to babies. They don't hypnotize you with bright objects and repeat the same words over and over, handing out little treats when

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It's also nigh-on impossible for an adult to learn a new language fluently if they weren't exposed to (or didn't study) a foreign language before their mid-teens.