frightened and paranoid Americans are of learning another language.

The Horse Frank White Youth Jersey , as I previously wrote, is spoken fluency. I made the point that children, long before they go off the first grade Willie Wilson Youth Jersey , already have a high degree of spoken fluency in their native tongue before learning the parts of speech or memorizing grammar rules. It is my contention and the premise of this article that this is exactly what you need long before you enroll in a formal foreign language course of study. Long before you begin to learn the difference between the preterit and the imperfect tenses in Spanish you need to be using them with the same degree of fluency that a Mexican first graders does when he goes off to his first day of formal education!


Ok, calm that heart rate down! Don't get all twisted in a knot over this. What I am suggesting is not only possible, but if you have the time and the money?and yes it is going to cost you?you can engage in the same process learning Spanish that you did when you were a little kid learning your native language.


Look at the cost factor to which I just alluded. What would you rather do? Would you want to spend a small fortune that could solve the debt problem of some small "third world" country in books and tuition for classes design NOT to teach you spoken fluency Salvador Perez Youth Jersey , or would you rather spend the money on something that will work?


Having said that, let's take a look at the Horse and just how little kids learn their native tongue as well as how they seemingly learn second languages better than adults do.


I have gotten into many a verbal "knock down drag outs" over this very issue. Americans are convinced, and I am talking in the majority of Americans Lucas Duda Youth Jersey , that children can learn a foreign language faster than adults do. Have you not heard the very same thing? I hear this as the standard excuse all the time from those tourists who express the dream of expatriating to Mexico but who are firmly and inextricably convinced that because they are in their 60's that they are UNABLE to learn a second language!


The wonderful truth is that what you've always heard about kids being able to pick up a language faster than an adult SIMPLY IS NOT TRUE! It is not too late because you are an ?older learner?.


Most new studies are showing that when an adult learner is involved in the right method of language instruction, that they learn the foreign language faster than do children. What I am saying is that if an adult is immersed in the correct method that will teach the second language in the same manner in which they learned their native tongue, that they will learn the language faster. This assumes the absence of some sort of organic disease process in the adult.


The difference that has been noted between children and adults trying to acquire a second language is that those who learn the language before puberty generally will have no "accent". They will not sound like an English speaker speaking Spanish. I can immediately tell a non-native Spanish speaker by their accent.


The reasons for the noted accent factor between adult and child learners maybe due to developing brain issues and the individual learning experiences of the child versus the adult.


The research specifically shows that Billy Hamilton Youth Jersey , as an adult gets older there is NO diminution in the ability to learn. Unless there is a disease process going on in the hearing, vision, or something like Alzheimer's taking place there is no reason why an adult cannot learn a second language and do so well. It is a myth that adults cannot learn a second language. That is not to say there are no adult related difficulties in learning a second language. There are indeed but they are not what you think.


The biggest difficulty in an adult Alex Gordon Youth Jersey , and I am talking even those as young as college-aged adults, learning a second language is an emotional issue. They have so bought into the popular myth that because they didn't start learning Spanish as a child that it is too late for them now.


I recall reading a study about language instruction at Harvard. I cannot locate the source. Where students routinely put off their foreign language requirement until their Senior year. Or, they got so freaked out that Harvard had to develop some sort of therapy resource to help students get through their language requirements. There are some Universities that developed a Bachelor's of General Studies degree program just so students could avoid having to take a foreign language. That is how frightened and paranoid Americans are of learning another language.


It is an emotional disorder that prevents adults from trying and successfully learning Spanish. They buy into the popular myth and consequently America has a bilingual rate of less than 9%.