My language biography I do not know what my first words were, but usually child's first word is mummy or mum. As I am an adult now and have my own children and have been watching their language development when they were babies, I can confirm that their first words were nouns for the people and thinks from their environment (e.g. terms for family members, names for toys, food, clothes and kitchen utensils). I remember very vaguely my early childhood and I cannot remember a single person who influenced my language. Interestingly, I remember an interview that was on TV when I was a teenager. It was the interview with a Croatian author whome I did not know at the time. But the ease of speech and the clarity of thoughts, as well as new ideas, attracted my attention. Many years later I started reading her books and she has become my most beloved fictional author. I like the sentences and the flow of words and ideas she produces. I like the way she writes so much that after finishing some of her books I can imediately turn the first page again and start reading the book again. I have a passion for languages. The language I know best (apart from my native language) is English and I have been trying to learn it the best I could. Although many people have told me that I speak very good English, fluently and without many mistakes, I would like to bring it to a new level. For that reason I started to learn it in new ways. Instead of learning it the way people usually learn foreign languages, I decided to try to learn it the way native speakers learn their native language. So, I started reading books for children and elementary school textbooks in order to build up my vocabulary and knowledge of terms from different fields (e.g. maths, science, art) the same way English pupils learn these terms. Do you think this is a good way of learning a language?