$mathrm{S}_{1}$: One of the first things the learning of a new language teaches you is that language comes from the region of the unconscious.

$mathrm{S}_{6}$: The test of how much you know is: how much can you say without having to think how you are going to say it ?

P : What is often meant by “thinking in a language” is really the ability to use it without thinking about it.

Q : We grown-up people have to filter it through our minds - a much more laborious process.

R : That is why children learn a new language so effortlessly : it comes straight from their instincts.

S : But we cannot say that we know a language, or know what we have studied of it, until we can use it instinctively. The proper sequence should be