Becoming Fluent: How Cognitive Science Can Help Adults Learn a Foreign Language

Forget everything you’ve heard about adult language learning—evidence from cognitive science and psychology prove we can learn foreign languages just as easily as children!

An eye-opening study on how adult learners can master a foreign language by drawing on skills and knowledge honed over a lifetime.

Adults who want to learn a foreign language are often discouraged because they believe they cannot acquire a language as easily as children. Once they begin to learn a language, adults may be ...