DIFFERENCES BETWEEN FIRST AND SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
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DIFFERENCES BETWEEN FIRST AND SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
To speak is an indispensable part of our lives. Any time we communicate with other people, we need to speak, that is, we need to use a language. Language is very essential for our daily lives. Yet, we are not aware of it that much. Speaking is like breathing; we are not aware that we breathe, but two or three minutes without any breathe is enough for us to understand the value of breathing. Though language is similarly so important for us, do we know or remember how we acquired a language? We acquired our first (native) language probably before we were five or six years old, and, at those ages, we could speak like adults. What's more, we may not be satisfied with our native language; thus, learned another one, that is, second (foreign) language, in childhood or later in adulthood. We might think that we acquire a second language in the same way we do with a first language. However, this is not the case...