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Language learning is hard. This is why we find it so

Adults famously find language learning more difficult than children, whose super-flexible brains actually grow the connections necessary to learn an additional language. Image: REUTERS/Oswaldo Rivas

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Unfortunately, our more sophisticated grown-up brains get in the way of language learning.
Unfortunately, our more sophisticated grown-up brains get in the way of language learning. Image: South China Morning Post

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