I still Can’t Speak English

I Still Can’t Speak English
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Why Do We Talk?
2 Why Do We Talk?
Well, we already know why, don’t we? But just to make sure, an MIT professor called Deb Roy made 
his baby son a study of first language acquisition in the 
Human Speechome Project
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and it is amazing to 
watch him acquire language in huge detail, but for me the most important conclusion of the programme 
comes towards the end.
The final conclusion is that language is a social, real world inspired phenomenon in humans and this 
is just what we at English Out There have believed all along and it is what our courses are based upon.
Below is the professor’s TED talk: 
Deb Roy: The Birth Of A Word
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Watch a Youtube trailer for a programme about the MIT professor’s study here:
http://youtu.be/TgrQlhVPBjc
You might be able to find the entire BBC programme on an international network’s video on demand 
service, just search on ‘
Why Do We Talk, Horizon BBC 
’.

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