Why is it easier for children to learn multiple languages fluently compared to adults ?

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Exposure of multiple languages to children at a young age can help them learn languages faster and more fluently than if exposed as adults. Is it because children’s brains are more receptive to language at a young age? Is it because your mind has already developed a ‘default’ language when you’re older?
Why isn’t this pattern applicable to something like mathematics/any other subject?

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Children’s brains are set up to learn unconsciously, they absorb language and their brains adapt to it. You didn’t learn English from a teacher, you learnt it without attempting to learn it.

This is not just for language, it is all skills.

Adults outperform children in their ability to learn under ‘awareness’.

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