Education, Skills and Learning

This is why babies are so much better than you at learning languages

Britain's Sophie, the Countess of Wessex meets mothers and babies at a music session during a joint visit with Colombia's First Lady Maria Clemencia Rodriguez de Santos to Vanessa Nursery School and Cathnor Park Children's Centre in west London, November 2, 2016. REUTERS/Dominic Lipinski/Pool - RTX2RIQO

I-LABS researchers have found that it is possible to give very young children the opportunity to start learning a second language. Image: REUTERS/Dominic Lipinski

Deborah Bach
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