Do babies/children take longer to learn certain languages?

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I would assume babies adapt quicker with languages such as English because it’s pretty simple...but that’s just me being bias...some of these languages ppl speak have grown up me :mindblown: ....it’s interesting to me...so what does the Coli think?
 

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Younger brains are still developing, more elastic and so it’s “easier” in terms of retaining memory the earlier you get them started. However, grammar and syntax are quite difficult to learn compared to vocabulary, especially English, so I don’t think “babies” have it easier unless their teachers are fluent in all three and conversationally use the language.

tldr it depends on the language they’re learning and their foundational language.
 

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You must be smoking weed or something.

“Easy” is a relative statement in this case. If you learn an Asian language first, then a Germanic/Latin hodge-podge language like English is going to be extremely difficult for you and vice versa. A baby is going to learn whichever language it hears as it has no frame of reference to gauge the supposed difficulty of it. If your statement was true we would see that baby’s start learning language at later stages in Asian countries which is not the case.
 

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Immersion, based on that the child will showcase their results.

And just because you can speak the language doesn't mean you can understand it.
 
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