Source: https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/curriculum/esol/cpd/module2/docs/chomsky.pdf

Noam Chomsky is probably the best known and the most influential
linguist of the second half of the Twentieth Century. He has made a
number of strong claims about language: in particular, he suggests that
language is an innate faculty – that is to say that we are born with a set of
rules about language in our minds, which he refers to as the ‘Universal
Grammar’.
The universal grammar is the basis upon which all human languages build.
If a Martian linguist were to visit Earth, he would deduce that there was
only one language, with a number of local variants. He would be able to
study the language and determine the rules based on the patterns he
hears and the patterns of other languages.
Children do not simply copy the language that they hear around them.
They deduce rules from it, which they can then use to produce sentences
that they have never heard before. They do not learn a repertoire of
phrases and sayings, as the behaviorists believe, but a grammar that
generates an infinite number of new sentences.

Language rules are complicated and complex. If there is not a Universal
Grammar, how do children make sense of it all?

When the child begins to listen to his parents, he will unconsciously
recognize which kind of a language he is dealing with – and he will set his
grammar to the correct one – this is known as ‘setting the parameters’.

It’s as if the child were offered at birth, a certain number of hypotheses,
which he or she then matches with what is happening around him. The
child knows intuitively that there are some words that behave like verbs,
and others like nouns, and that there is a limited set of possibilities for
ordering them within a phrase. This is not information that the child is
taught directly by adults, but information that is given for the child to
decipher.

The website autoinglés was created with the intention of providing a learning environment that allows the user to be exposed to native content; the same way that, when we as parents communicate, are providing some context for our kids to decipher and acquire the language that they will speak.

Therefore, the invitation is to relax and enjoy the process, the same way that children do, trusting that, with dedication and time, the time will come when all what is new and indecipherable, will make total sense and will allow us in turn to communicate in that new language.

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