It’s so easy to pick it up as as a child when everyone arounds you is speaking that language, but for some reason becomes difficult to pick up another language and learn it even if you’re constantly surrounded by people who speak it? why’s that?
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Common myth. A child doesn’t really compete with the cognitive abilities of an adult brain. Children take around a decade to learn their first language, an adult with a comparable level of immersion learns a foreign language in 1-3 years.
Your samples are just being skewed by the adults who don’t try to learn new languages.
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