Many people say that learning a language is too hard once they become an adult. They say that their brain doesn't work the way it did when it was a child, and therefore, they cant learn a new language. It is true that the brains work differently in adults than in children, but adults certainly still have the ability to learn more languages. This article makes a few good points about this. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationopinion/10315238/Are-children-really-better-at-foreign-language-learning.html
First, a child has to learn language from the beginning. They don't know grammar or many words yet. As an adult, one will already be fluent in a language and understand grammar rules. That gives an advantage to adults because they just have to learn to change some of the rules around and learn only a few new rules to get the grammar of the new language. Second, when put into a similar environment, an adult learns language just as well as a child. In general, a child will be learning a language in a class type setting, playing games, singing, and reading with the language. Many adults try learning on their own. If an adult plays games with the language, they will enjoy it more and be more willing to study. The singing is very useful because it puts the language to a tune or rhythm. Tunes and rhythms are very useful for learning because they are very easy for a human to remember. If an adult makes the effort to get these things included in their language studies, they will have a much more fun, and easy, learning experience. The article also give more examples that I didn't put here.
No matter how old you are, don't let anyone tell you that you are too old to acquire a new language.
Sometimes I really wish I grew up with both Spanish and English so I could be fluent in both because I thought that children learned languages faster. But this helped me understand that as adults we have the same capacity to learn it, even have advantages, too!
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