Can Older Adult Learners Acquire New Languages?

Can Older Adult Learners Acquire New Languages?

I often hear this question from adult learners. Sometimes my followers on Youtube, Facebook, or Twitter bring this up. In fact, not so long ago I had the following request from one of my followers.

ā€œI want to do some research on the problems of older language learners and see what I can do to help them.ā€

I replied by asking. ā€œWhat do you consider to be an older language learner?ā€ His answer ā€œover 40ā€.

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