Your native language learning is natural. As a baby listening to your parents, siblings, cousins, radio, TV, etc. you naturally pick up the language; or languages, if your parents are bilingual.
The fact that there are fewer cultural, personal, and emotional ties to a language that is not your native tongue, reading or communicating in that language would not be as natural, even if you are fluent in that second language. There are many cultural undertones that may not be obvious, as it would be to someone with that as their native language.
[This message has been edited by Sandy Millies (edited September 25, 2002).]
