Language learning...

It amazes me how much time can be spent on-line and still nothing gets accomplished. I have spent the week trying to get caught up on personal business. Homework has been fun, working through the quirks of the language software. I even learned how to create my own flash card list.
Hadley, chapter 2: Caused me to reflect intently on my own learning of second languages (Spanish and Ojibwe) and my own teaching methods or approaches to language learning. What has worked for me and what I try to incorporate in my teaching method is multiple stimulus in content with repetition, always taking an individual approach to learning styles. People who I view as successful second language learners agree that the immersion experience is the best way to learn a language. I have only recently under gone a brief immersion experience.
I agree to some extent the genetic theory of language learning because of my deep desire and commitment to learning and preserving the Ojibwe language (my Native language, not my first language). When I hear the Ojibwe language it instills a calmness in me. A sense of fulfillment or contentment (even if I don't know all of the words). I justify this feeling as a genetic memory.
I also agree that learning language at an early age is very different from learning a second language as an adult. Along with age comes learned responses and set ways of dealing with new stimuli. These cognitive responses become more resilient with age. In my own case, I have been a life long learner of language, however I do not seem to be able to advance past "novice" stage of language learning in either case. I understand more than I am able to communicate in both languages. I have travel around the world and felt when in any situation in any country when not knowing the language...that people find a way to communicate their basic needs in order to help someone out.
I guess my experience and thoughts would support both the empiricist and rationalist points of view.