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

We often hear that learning a foreign language is much more difficult for adults than for children. Is it so? Children do remember words faster and it is easier for them to learn to speak with the correct accent, but adults have the advantages that only age gives: life experience and skills. Therefore, it may even be easier for them to learn the language, only they need to do it differently. Based on research in the field of psychology and linguistics, their own experience in teaching and learning languages, cognitive scientists Richard Roberts and Roger Kroes tell in this book how to form a habit of studying, what is the harm of cramming and what is useful for the state of "spinning on the tongue", as well as how not to become a language zombie, able to express himself only in memorized phrases. You can learn a foreign language at any age, and the tips and advice of Roberts and Kroes will make learning a language especially enjoyable and effective.