Any historical documented cases of language acquisition?

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Google Daniel Everett, he went and lived among the Piraha in Brazil. He had linguistic training but no training in the language the Piraha spoke. It is covered in the documentary "The Grammar of Happiness" where they examine the language and debate about its strange rules including a lack of recursion. He doesnt give an exact amount of months it took to learn the language other than saying it took many years. He also says he and his now ex-wife and children (who were on mission with him) are the only living Piraha speakers that are not indigenous.

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