It is generally accepted that language exposure in the first year of a baby’s life is important. To what certainly must be the dismay of couch potatoes everywhere, researchers at the University of Washington determined that it’s particularly important that it come from a live human being. Watching DVDs doesn’t have any effect. What was particularly notable to the researchers was that even just five hours of exposure made a significant impact.
September 8th, 2006
Turns out you can't learn Mandarin Chinese by watching television
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Raymond has been involved in the evolution of Windows for more than 30 years. In 2003, he began a Web site known as The Old New Thing which has grown in popularity far beyond his wildest imagination, a development which still gives him the heebie-jeebies. The Web site spawned a book, coincidentally also titled The Old New Thing (Addison Wesley 2007). He occasionally appears on the Windows Dev Docs Twitter account to tell stories which convey no useful information.
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