On Apr 22, 2008, at 11:55 PM, YKY (Yan King Yin) wrote:
There is no doubt that learning new languages at an older age is much more difficult than younger.
I seem to recall that recent research does not support this assertion. Rate of language learning is essentially the same for both adults and children and is a function of the amount of time spent trying to learn it. The apparent absolute differences in rate of learning turned out to be attributable to adults spending a smaller percentage of their time learning a new language than children on average, which gave the false impression that adults learn languages more slowly.
I am too lazy to dig up cites at the moment, but I definitely remember discussions of this research in the not too distant past.
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