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by barry-cotter
4462 days ago
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Children absorb knowledge from their environment fast, adults do goal directed learning faster. Children's brains are just more plastic. They pick things up better than adults. That said I'm not sure there are any cases besides languages where adults don't crush children. Their superiority is best illustrated by the incredible rarity of L2 speakers who won't be obvious after 10 minutes by grammar or syntax slips or the unicorns who can do that and have native accents. My favourite data point on children's superiority over adults at language learning is the list with one member. Adult Learners of English Who Wrote a Classic Work of Literature in it.[a] Joseph Conrad [a] Nabokov grew up with English governesses and could read it before he could read Russian. |
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