When it comes to learning Spanish or any other foreign language, common wisdom has long held that kids have a significant advantage over adults. Children under age 7 are especially adept at picking up new languages, because their brains are not yet “hard-wired” to function in their native tongue.
However, new research has shown that in some respects, adults are actually better at learning languages than children. For example, adults are better at recognizing and mimicking grammatical patterns than children.
The difference between adult and child language learners may not be so much physical as social. In other words, while it may be true that children’s brains are more open to language acquisition, children also benefit from social advantages that adults don’t have, such as a lack of self-consciousness that allows them to make mistakes freely. Plus, children’s language errors will be corrected by anyone and everyone who hears them, while people are much less likely to correct an adult’s errors for fear of offending them.
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