For a long time, experts have thought that learning a second language “successfully” was impossible for adults. However, a new study carried out at the University of California at Riverside has shown that “adults are capable of learning and processing a new language” like native speakers.

In this experiment, researchers looked at native English speakers who were learning Spanish as a second language. More specifically, they looked at how these speakers understood “sentences in Spanish that contained (…) aspects of Spanish grammar that do not exist in English”. Some errors were also introduced in order to see if participants could detect them. As mentioned above, the results showed that it is possible for adults to learn a second language like a native speaker.

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