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Penguins Are wrote:
> Concentration is required to memorize-focus. Then how does the baby
> learn words and basic grammer by age three when they are too young to
> focus narrowly?
There are two different forms of concentration: the one consists in
actively keeping all other things out of your attention so as to be
able to see only one thing. This is "to focus" and an adult has to be
able to "focus" on the list of foreign words he is traying to learn,
because the thoughts of job and girl friend and new car and next year's
holiday would make it impossible to memorize the words.
The other form of concentration is when you don't need to actively keep
other things out of your attention, because there are no other things
competing for it, that is when the one thing you are doing is the only
one that counts for you, if you are an adult, or is the only one that
actually exists for you, if you are a baby.
So it is a wrong assumption that a baby not to be able of
concentration. In fact a baby is nothing else than concentration. It
does not need to "focus" because it has nothing else to distract it. A
baby has no other thoughts or interests than this one: to observe what
happens, to recognize patterns, and to memorize them. Memorizing
happens automatically if you are interested in what you are seeing or
listening. A baby is deeply and uniquely interested in what it is
seeing or listening.
An adult trying to learn a list of words is normally in a very
different situation: thousand things are competing for his attention,
and in most of the cases to learn these bloody words will have a rather
low priority.
> How do they get all the words when adults studying a foreign language
> must go over and over vocabulary lists to remember anything?
As I said, the problem is not to remember, but to keep your mind free
of other things, and a baby has no problem at all in this respect. When
an adult is in the same situation: no distracting thoughts, together
with a deep interest to the subject, he will learn anything almost so
quickly as any baby.
I say "almost" because beside concentration there are some more factors
playing a (positive or negative) role, but this form of concentration
makes some eighty percent of the trick, in my experience, so it could
be a satisfactory answer to your question.
Greetings
Marco P
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