airsabu32

An important thing to consider here is there is a difference between *learning about* a language and *learning* a language. Just as you seem to be a competent speaker of the English language, this does not guarantee you can describe every aspect of its functioning or regurgitate every rule. At the same time, plenty of people around the world study scores of languages, and can tell you all about their inner-workings, but have no communicative competence in these systems. There are handfuls of Linguistic anthropologists who study certain aspects of foreign languages but develop little competence in their usage. Think about those who do comparative research; it would be quite taxing to have to learn 100 languages in order to describe a certain language family. Nevertheless, in a graduate program, it is a safe bet you will have to become familiar with at least some aspects of foreign communication, to some degree. This does not mean, however, that linguistic research on English is out of the question. After all, you are an expert! This gives you the kind of insight some people dream of. What I would recommend, having studied language acquisition/teaching, is to take your time with learning a second language. Quality is much more important than quantity. Keep it simple. Start from there. What good is the plu-perfect form or the passive voice if you can never use them?? Remember humans created language to communicate! Adios!