Accelerated Spanish Episode 5.

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Sometimes children are the best teachers when it comes to language learning.

When my niece was four, she got into a really funny habit.

She would often use perfectly phrased sentences in very illogical contexts.

For example, if I spent an afternoon visiting her, I might start gathering my things so that I could leave.

She liked to play with my phone, so sometimes I would

have to ask her to hand it to me. Instead of just ordering her to give it back, I would try to

persuade her by asking a question, like, do you know why I need my phone back? This question

made her realize that I was leaving, and she would blurt out the first response she could think of,

because I don't want you to go away.

Now, as you can see, this why-because reasoning doesn't really line up logically,

but there's one thing that does line up perfectly, the way that she phrased that sentence, because I don't want

you to go away. Nobody taught this four-year-old how to put together the sentence, I don't want

you to go away. Nobody had to tell her that don't is a contraction of do not, and nobody had to

explain to her that she has to use the

infinitive form of to go after the word you when expressing an intention for a second person's

actions. All of that sounds really advanced, and yet a four-year-old is doing it all naturally.

That's because she's a native English speaker. She learned everything through

phrases. Sure, words are the building blocks of phrases, but words are only valuable if you put

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