Why Are Adults So Bad At New Languages?
Learning a new language as an adult is harder than doing so as a child because adults usually aren’t as invested and often use the wrong strategies.
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Show Notes
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:
- Second-Language Acquisition: The process of a language that’s not the speaker’s native language.
- Bilingualism: The ability to speak and understand two languages.
- Monitor Model: A group of hypotheses that propose that linguistic competence is only advanced when language is subconsciously acquired.
- Sociolinguistics: The study of language in relation to all sorts of social factors.
- Linguistic Investment: A motivation to learn a language based on the understanding that the speaker will acquire a wider range of symbolic and material resources, which will in turn increase the value of their cultural capital and social power.
- Hyperpolyglot: A person who can speak and understand more than six languages.
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