AS021: How Adults Learn Spanish

Accelerated Spanish: Learn Spanish online the fastest and best way, by Master of Memory

Timothy Moser

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🗓️ 18 March 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Can adults learn languages? Let’s look at the research. This episode explores how adults can actually be BETTER language learners than children.

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0:00.0	Accelerated Spanish, Episode 21.
0:03.0	How fast do you want to be fluent in Spanish?
0:06.0	Using our tested system that combines timeless language learning hacks with a memory palace of mnemonics,
0:11.0	you can be ready to integrate with native speakers in as little as one month.
0:15.0	This week, we have so much vocabulary to learn that we won't spend long on theory today,
0:20.0	which we normally do on Mondays.
0:22.6	At the end of this episode, we'll go ahead and learn several new conjugations and prepositions
0:27.0	to get a head start on the week. But first, let's talk a little bit about a language learning
0:32.4	myth that cripples many aspiring Spanish speakers, the myth that adults can't learn a second language
0:39.6	as easily as a child can. It's the idea that suddenly after you turn 15 or 20 or 40 or something,
0:47.7	you suddenly hit a wall and can't learn a new language effectively. If you are tempted to use your age as an excuse, I have news for you.
0:58.4	Children are not better than adults at learning a second language. Controlled studies throughout the
1:05.6	decades that have tested this have demonstrated that this is true. Here are just a few examples. Asher and Price,
1:12.0	1967. There were three groups of students who were tested on how well they could learn German.
1:17.5	So there were elementary kids from 4 to 11, junior high kids from ages 12 to 14, and college
1:23.7	kids 18 to 25. And in their conclusion, they wrote that both the junior high and
1:29.3	college groups were superior to the elementary age group. And then in 1973, Olson and Samuels,
1:37.0	adolescents and children were given short lessons in German pronunciation, and the adolescents
1:42.4	performed better than the children.
1:57.9	In 1975, we have Fathman, a non-English-speaking children, ages ranging from 6 to 15, were tested on their ability to learn grammatical structures of the English language, and the older children scored higher.
2:03.1	And then in X-Strand, 1976, immigrants of many ages were tested on their learning of Swedish within a short period of time. The older students performed better
2:08.7	than the younger students in all areas tested. In a 1978 study, three groups were working on
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