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10 interesting facts about language learning - Coggle Diagram
10 interesting facts about language learning
Age to learn a language
The best age: 7 years old
infants have the strongest abilities to absorb a new language
Hardest languages to learn
Chinese and Arabic are amongst the languages that are the hardest to learn
Depend on your mother tongue
Language imitation
It is so important to interact with native speakers
Languages are learned mainly through imitation
Endangered languages
23% of all world languages are spoken by fewer than half-a-million people
50% of endangered languages are spoken within small communities
Productivity
It is better to study a foreign language regularly for shorter periods of time than study for longer periods of time
Listening and reading are important
Flashcards are an very effective method
Humans as language users
Language acquisition is one of the quintessential human traits
The majority of people speaks more than one language to express themselves
Benefit
bilingual candidates can earn up to 20% more than monolinguals
perform better in other subjects
include those of critical thinking skills, creativity and flexibility of the mind
The number of languages in the world
50-90% of these languages
6000 to 7000 languages
extinct by 2100
Mistakes
kids are challenged to learn to do things different
Children learn more when they make mistakes
Health benefits
Prevent the onset of dementia