Study suggests people are skilled at picking up grammar in a new tongue up to age 17 or 18 Language learning isn’t kid stuff anymore. In fact, it never was, a provocative new study concludes. A ...

While kids can pick up new languages at a rapid clip, we adults often struggle to remember the word for fork three months into French class. Historically, this age-related mismatch in language ...

All children are born with the same kind of brain wiring, so at the outset, we are all equally adept at learning any possible human language. For a newborn, any language is, in principle, as easy or ...