What are the benefits of learning a foreign language at a young age?
Children have a unique ability to learn a language naturally, with less effort than adults. It’s best to take advantage of this as early as possible through consistent exposure and enjoyable activities. Even before children can speak, they are able to encode unique sounds, accents, and intonations, providing the foundation for communication skills that will be used through out their life. As children grow, it becomes increasingly difficult to learn new words, develop new sentence structure, and flawlessly imitate new accents. Roughly by age 10, humans have already lost the ability to hear and reproduce new sounds.