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The Relationship between Age and Language Learning
There are many prejudices, myths, misunderstandings and misconceptions about the abilities or inabilities of the language learners of different ages. There are many question about this where nobody has an exact answer for it.
- Do children learn language quicker than adults ?
- Is it impossible for adults to achieve fluency in any additional language ?
In one sipmle word - " No "
These and other kind of beliefs are no right. Children do not learn quicker than adults, even adult people may learn more efficiently. Since age is not a determining factor of learning language there will be no loss of language learning abilities over a certain of time. In addition, learning additional languages (second, third, etc) keeps the human brain active and this is an benefit for older learners. This means that people of any ages can take advantages from learning additional languages.
There are two reports (click below read more ) which were sponsored by the US Department of Education. The reports show the effect of age and language learning from two different point of view. The Older Language Learner shows some of the myths surrounding adult language learners, and Myths and Misconceptions about Second Language Learning shows the same from the perspective of working with children.
These reports were produced mainly for teachers and educators, but they clearly show that people of any age can be accomplished language learners, particularly self-motivated adults. In addition, they show how learning style and different learning methods can have a powerful impact on our success rate as language learners.
Pronounciation in Spanish
Pronounciation in Spanish
Vowels in Spanish
The pronunciation of Spanish vowels is easy for all native English speakers and for those ones which English is the second language. This is because there are similar vowel sounds in English and all the Spanish vowels are generally pronounced in the same way. In some cases Spanish vowels are pronounced slightly differently depending on the letters before or after them.
In Spanish,
- A is pronounced like the A in "awesome", never like the A in "apple".
- E is pronounced like the A in "hay".
- I is pronounced like the EE in "jeep".
- O is pronounced like the OA in "goat".
- U is pronounced like the U in "duty".
Consonants in Spanish
In Spanish
- B and V sound identical in Spanish in most cases, like the "b" in baby.
- G is pronounced like the g in good, except when it comes before an E or an I, when it is pronounced like the hard H in English (the Spanish J). Gimenez (himenez), Girona (hirona), Genial (henial)
- H is always silent "hola" is pronounced "ola". Hernandez (ernandez), Hermano (ermano)
- J is pronounced like the hard H of "hello", perhaps a little harder than one would say it in English. Javier (havier), juego (huego)
- L is pronounced like the L in "like", never like the "le" in ankle.
- LL is pronounced like the Y in "yawn", Lleno (yeno),
- Ñ is pronounced like the NY in "canyon". Nunez (nunyez)
- RR is the infamous rolling R, which stumps beginning speakers. You can try making to brum-brum sound imitating a car motor or imitate a cat purring.
- X is pronounced either like the S or the Spanish J, "experto", is pronounced as esperto, "México" is pronounced as meh-hee-co and not meks-ih-co.
- Z is pronounced identically to S, like "single". This pronunciation is standard in all of Latin American. In Spain, Z is pronounced as TH, as in the TH of 'math'.
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