Children Learning Languages faster than Adults

[Francis Hult]

Foreign Policy Journal

 

Children Learning Languages faster than Adults: The Argument Continues in Vietnam

 

A student enters the University of Mainz, Germany, with no prior knowledge of two foreign languages. Six years later, he emerges, a fully qualified UN-level interpreter or translator.

The program doesn't allow children.

 

The Defense Language Institute and the Monterey Institute specialize in teaching category three languages, the most difficult, to complete beginner adults, raising them to fluency in one year.

Once again, children are not permitted in the courses.

 

Full story:

http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2010/11/17/children-learning-languages-faster-than-adults-the-argument-continues-in-vietnam/

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