Do Adults Learn Languages Like Children?

There are three stages of comprehension in any new language. Early on, you barely understand anything — and that's fine. The goal at that stage isn't comprehension; it's letting your brain pick up the patterns. Then comes the long middle stretch where you're learning words but li ...  Show more

I've been chipping away at Arabic for years, and I recently sat down with Hasan Alhamwi, the founder of Arabic All The Time. He left a career in civil engineering to build the largest library of Arabic comprehensible input on the internet. We talked about why videos beat textbook ...  Show more

On entend souvent que les enfants apprennent les langues plus facilement que les adultes. C’est d’ailleurs une excuse très pratique pour certains : 

« J’aimerais bien apprendre l’espagnol mais c’est trop tard, je suis trop vieux pour ça. »

D’un autre côté, beauco ...

Some experts believe that it is better for children to begin learning a foreign language at primary school rather than secondary school. Do the advantages of this outweigh the disadvantages?   another language a second language a new language   to acquire a foreign language    pr ...  Show more

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Have you ever had someone tell you that you should learn another language like a child? Does this actually work? And if so, how do you do this?  In this episode, we will share with you some surprising truths about how children learn languages and techniques that you need to be ap ...  Show more