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 proves we can learn foreign languages just as easily as children.

This eye-opening study reveals 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...