- cross-posted to:
- languagelearning@sopuli.xyz
- cross-posted to:
- languagelearning@sopuli.xyz
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Interesting. I had always been of the belief that children learned easier than adults. Although, this seems to be classroom based.
Personally, when I imagine children learning languages it is because they are immersed in it.
Additionally, this doesn’t seem to cover multi-lingual households raising children. I knew several kids growing up that had 2 or 3 mother tongues, because they grew up in a house where all were spoken. I can’t imagine an adult would be able to learn 3 languages at a time.
Adults hardly get into that situation.
Actually, that’s not true at all. Adults regularly have multiple roommates that speak multiple languages.
How? They quickly switch to a common language or avoid the situation entirely. When traveling, (only few concepts are required for tourists and workers) most concepts are easier to show by hand and foot than to be learned in the visited language. Even if they learned something during the visit, it’s about <0.1% of that language. Because adults share so many concepts already, they quickly understand and don’t even need to learn all the words and grammar to get around. So adult migrants immerse differently than children who still learn new concepts.