Español y El Cerebro
Spanish and the Brain
Is there a perfect time to learn a second or new language?
There is a period in every humans life called the Critical Period. This period occurs between age 2 and at the point of development in the body. At the end of this period, the brain if fully developed; completing laterization. Therefore, this period is very resourceful for learning a new language. Babies use both sides of their brain, making it easier to learn a new language or a second one. As you get older, you use your brain in different ways and depend on different parts of it; making it more difficult.
Advantages?
Adolescent
At the first stages of life you use almost all of your brain to complete tasks. Thus making it easier to learn a second language.
Young Adult
In the stages when you are developing you start to reorder your brain to function in different ways and to access different parts of your brain to do tasks. Thus making it still easy but you also have a language to refer to and to reference to help with learning a new language.
Adulthood
Your brain has fully developed and changed to accommodate to events. You develop to one language and when learning a new one can still reference from your first but it gets harder to obtain new information as you increase in age.
Affects?
There are also many affects and situations that can interfere when learning a new language disregarding age. Your personality and motivation is a simple factor that contributes greatly. Also, your access and instruction to the language will determine your proficiency to the language. At last, your ability and your language development are key to your success in a new language.