Why Are Adults So Bad At New Languages?

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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