Behavioural Sciences

This is the perfect time to learn a language

An instructor points out mandarin characters on a whiteboard at a night class for people learning mandarin as a second language in Singapore September 1, 2009. English has long united the ethnically diverse island-state but Singapore's leaders now foresee a time when Mandarin will be the country's dominant language and they are aggressively encouraging their people to become fluent in Chinese. To match feature SINGAPORE-CHINA/     REUTERS/Vivek Prakash (SINGAPORE BUSINESS SOCIETY EDUCATION)

New research suggests that children remained very skilled at learning a new language even up to the age of 17 or 18. Image: REUTERS/Vivek Prakash

Anne Trafton
Guest contributor, MIT News
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