Yeah, he's ready.

Yeah.

Um, so kids, I think, do pick it up faster than adults.

Kids' brains are wired for language acquisition and pattern recognition.

I think the biggest thing is that they learn best through play.

So anything you can make into a game for a child, um, is way easier for them to learn it.

You know?

Well, and like, going back to reading, if you think about reading the word bat, b-a-t, but if you can't remember what the A says, the A says a and you have to think about that, you've already forgotten what the first sound you made was.

Yeah.

So one of the biggest things is it sharpens your working memory.

You have to manage new short-term information all the time.

And so you have to remember what your opponents have discarded, sort of do the calculations of what tiles might still be there.

Think about your strategy.

You're balancing a lot of different stuff.

Yeah.

that.