You've nailed. Language is a great examply where our intuition about how one learns is wildly incorrect.
Babies are prewired to rapidly learn language, merely by hearing it around them. They do this regardless of the language, with teachers who have no idea what they're doing. It's an incredible process but because it happens so easily it leads us to think teaching a computer these things must not be all that hard.
But we're not generic computing devices, and our linguistic developmental skills are innate and incredibly well adapted. We just can't see it so we take it for granted.
Babies are prewired to rapidly learn language, merely by hearing it around them. They do this regardless of the language, with teachers who have no idea what they're doing. It's an incredible process but because it happens so easily it leads us to think teaching a computer these things must not be all that hard.
But we're not generic computing devices, and our linguistic developmental skills are innate and incredibly well adapted. We just can't see it so we take it for granted.