Notes on a polyglot: Kato Lomb

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Dr Kato Lomb has acquired 17 languages and now, at age 86, is acquiring Hebrew. Nearly all of her language acquisition has been in the foreign language context, in Hungary. Her conclusions about language acquisition agree very well with current language acquisition theory: comprehensible input (mostly in the form of reading in her case) is central. Even though she is very interested in grammar, she feels grammar plays a peripheral role in language development.