How children learn a language

Lingosteve focuses on how children learning a language.

Do Adults Learn Languages Like Children?

👶 Everyone knows that children are better language learners, right? Well, the truth is not so simple...

While children do have SOME advantages when it comes to language learning (e.g. pronunciation), we adults run circles around the little ones in other ways!

In this video, I detail the similarities and differences between first and second language acquisition and the various linguistic and psychological advantages and disadvantages held by babies and adult.

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Yet there are children and prodigious children. Watch this video to see a 5 year old speaking eight languages. What 's more: some are highly different languages; think of Arabic, Chinese and Russian. The 'Telemundo" program runs in Spanish, which is why Spanish is the first language you hear the young girl speak.. 

AMAZING! 13 year old polyglot speaks 20 languages

Her Spanish is actually better than that of the adult polyglot interviewing her. It took me to near the end of the video to actually realize that the interviewer is a native Dutch speaker.

Languages: 0:00 English 0:36 Spanish 2:18 Mandarin 4:27 Taiwanese 4:33 Korean 5:41 Japanese 8:25 Hawaiian 10:05 Brazilian Portuguese 11:13 French 11:29 German (Austrian) 13:14 Vietnamese 13:54 Russian 14:26 Ukrainian 14:51 Arabic 15:07 Hindi 18:44 Hochdeutsch 19:28 Thai 19:50 Indonesian 21:15 Dutch 21:30 Finnish 21:55 Tagalog

She admits not being fluent in Dutch nor French, but her ambitions are to first improving the languages she already speaks. Counting Austrian German and High German as different languages is an easy way to tick up the counter. I have no idea on how different Mandarin Chinese is from Taiwanese.