It's amazing how the mind starts processing the minute you get different kinds of input. By writing, reading and resting and by putting it down on paper I have already developed new thoughts about the topics. It's fascinating to read Chomsky's theory about how we are born with an ability to learn language and understand grammar to a certain point. But is it really so easy when it comes to learning a second language and even a foreign language. It is said that some languages are more similar to each other. Some languages are easier to learn if they can be linked together in certain areas. If these "boxes" match at several points, the languages may be quite similar. I guess it's like swedish and danish for Norwegians. In the language boxes the patterns are similar and because of that we can understand each other and learn the other ones language quickly.

The theory states that the learner is not active in this process. The person simply learns the language by being exposed to it. It could work in reality if you moved to a place where they only spoke a foreign language and you were exposed to it constantly over a long period of time. When you learn a language this way i think you acquire it. You understand the language in a completely different way than if you only learn the rules and theory of the language. That's the difference between native speakers and speakers that have the language as their second language or foreign language. When we learn English for example we get a lot of input from our teachers. We learn grammar and practice our knowledge. This is different from acquisition because we actively learn something. At the same time we get input in a passive way. By listening to english music and watching english movies and series we acquire knowledge without even knowing it. By combining these to ways of both active and passive learning and also by being in the right environment you can speed up the learning process.