English Rewind - Weekender: Later language learning

Does it get more difficult to learn a foreign language as you get older? Improve your English vocabulary knowledge AND practise your English listening with this archive episode of London Life! Do you find your language learning skills are decreasing as you get older? Join the conversation in the comments ????????????

Useful vocabulary:
✔️ first language acquisition - the learning of the native language
✔️ second language acquisition - the learning of a language that is not the native language
✔️ a claim - a statement that something is true
✔️ indistinguishable from - exactly the same as
✔️ exposed to something - in a situation where you experience something you were not expecting
✔️ a handicap - a disadvantage that makes something difficult to do

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English Rewind is a collection of programmes from our archive. This programme was first published on the BBC Learning English website in February 2007.

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