Chapter 9 Movie Reflection

My favorite part of the Development of Language video was definitely the part where they talked about how we have to be taught the basic steps of a conversation. It seems so obvious. I mean, a conversation is just two people responding to each other. How would you do that if you had never been taught to wait to talk until the other person is done? What would you talk about? The art of conversation seems as important as the art of language itself. Also, while watching the video, I was suddenly amazed at how smart kids are. We don't give them as much credit as they deserve because we don't sit down and just observe them. Their conversations with others are extremely complex and intelligent for how few of years they have been speaking.