Language Thinking Lab by Tymur Levitin

  Language Thinking Lab Series "Adults are not worse language learners. They simply learn differently." One of the most common beliefs about language learning is that children have a natural gift while adults have already missed their opportunity. Many people say: "Children absorb languages like a sponge." That statement is partly true. But the conclusion many people draw from it is completely wrong. Adults can become highly successful language learners. They simply use a different brain. Children Do Not Study Language A young child rarely sits down to memorize grammar tables. Instead, children spend thousands of hours listening. They hear the same words. The same sentence structures. The same expressions. Again. And again. And again. Without realizing it, their brain begins detecting patterns. Eventually those patterns become automatic. Only years later do children learn grammar at school. Grammar explains what their brain has already discovered. Adults Learn in th...