• Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Language acquisition happens different in young children than in adults or older children. Linguists are not divided on this topic.

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      What he is trying to say is: is that due to a loss of neuroplasticity or is it more along the line of older children and adults learning a second language usually aren’t deep in the same level of immersion. I agree with him that it’s probably somewhere in the middle