Episode
Horizon: A Child's Guide to Languages
Overview
Looks at different ways of teaching a foreign language and contrasts them with the way babies and young children pick up their native language, without formal teaching.
Details
- Series
- Horizon
- Season
- Season 20
- Episode
- Episode 19
- Air date
- 1983-10-31
- Runtime
- 60 min
Episode context
A Child's Guide to Languages is Episode 19 in 1983 of Horizon. It aired on 1983-10-31. The runtime is 60 min.
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