@tartley I'm in the middle of learning French and also not a layman with neural networks and while this is one of the ways people learn, it's only a way people learn reflexive and mostly content-free things.
It's definitely not how people learn most things like languages or skills. (Source: my brain, though take that with some caution) We, or me at least, seem to start with more abstract symbolic understanding and layer things on top of that. LLMs are entirely surface-level stuff.