Language Learning Secrets: Adults vs. Children - Who Learns Better?
00:00:00.000 | The approach dictates how successful you're going to be.
00:00:02.760 | And when I was researching this a long time ago,
00:00:06.160 | I came across a study in the University of Haifa in Israel
00:00:09.840 | that found that under the right circumstances,
00:00:12.960 | adults are better language learners than children.
00:00:16.160 | And that sounds very counterintuitive
00:00:19.040 | because all the evidence we see out there is
00:00:21.640 | what children are clearly learning languages more than adults are.
00:00:24.600 | And that is because it's not under the right circumstances for those adults.
00:00:29.880 | The adults are taking dusty old grammar books.
00:00:32.600 | The adults are going to group classes
00:00:34.960 | where they're kind of zipping it and letting a teacher talk at them.
00:00:38.200 | The adults are not truly living through the language.
00:00:42.000 | The adults don't have any friends in the language.
00:00:44.240 | They're not playing games in the language like a child does.
00:00:47.720 | And the child has a better language learning approach.
00:00:51.560 | It's not that they are better at language learning.