If it’s evident that adults ‘study’ foreign languages, it’s also just as evident that children do not study. What is it that children do then? What is it that enables them to ‘learn’ without study? They live, they look, they listen, and they learn. Children gather up experiences and simply try to understand what’s going […]

Just about every adult will agree with this statement. What’s most amazing about it is that children don’t practice their language! They either ‘know’ what they want to say, and they say it, or they don’t ‘know’ what they want to say, and they are quiet.* Where do they gain the ‘know’ from? They ‘know’ […]

Many people have noticed that children learn second languages perfectly, and that adults almost never do. The conclusion that seems to have been drawn from this is that adults can’t learn like children; that somehow and for some reason, adults have lost the child’s magic! We think that perhaps the reality lies in exactly the […]