Which is harder?
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A Japanese toddler learning English or a monolingual American adult learning French?
>>16782224
Hang on, just need to go find the results of the research I did on this topic.
>>16782224
Depends on the specific people, but children have it easy picking up a new language.
>>16782237
That's because the child usually has hours and hours of instruction (living with mommy who talks to the child in that language).
If adults also immerse themselves that way, they learn faster because they're smarter. Unfortunate, unless OP moves to France, he'll at most get 2 hours of instruction per day.
>>16782224
This is an easy one. There has been loads of research on the topic, and little kids learn second and third languages much, much more easily than adults.
Google something like "language learning in children and adults"
