But consider if you had been given a child with the potential to easily speak many languages by the same person.

But, sadly for some unknown reason, however much you tried to learn the language they currently speak in you couldn't.

Would your friend want you to put the child in a cupboard (to be wheeled out on special occasions out of some notion of 'rightness') or change the mode of communication and enjoy the potential of the present?




(Cupboard works for me, of course)