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Yes, but it seems to me that many people have a tough time raising the level of their language to a high academic level. Surely it would harm you if your input was much less because you had many different kind of input.

Dear Mr and Mrs Language Persons:

In 'I'm going to the park and then I'm going to the store' we use future words twice, but in 'I'm going to the store after I go to the park' usually only once. Why?

Thanks Juan, you're the man.

Hey everyone!

I want to know the main differences between Shakespeare's grammar and our own.

The trouble is, when I search for that information all I find is discussions about whether Shakey had "bad grammar" or "didn't bother with grammar".

Can you help?

I wonder if anyone has any views on how many languages a child can learn before their progress in all of them seems to suffer. It seems that academics think that any amount is possible, but it doesn't seem to make much sense to me. There must come a point where the time you spend on each is just too...