> Humans have been learning language as children the same way
But you can't disregard the fact that an adult's brain is different from a child's brain. An adult's brain has a lot of prior knowledge that a child doesn't possess. Concepts such as freedom, money, market are easily grasped by an adult whereas a child has to focus on the meaning rather than the words (the representations).
I think adults can take advantage of their prior knowledge to speed up language acquisition.
But you can't disregard the fact that an adult's brain is different from a child's brain. An adult's brain has a lot of prior knowledge that a child doesn't possess. Concepts such as freedom, money, market are easily grasped by an adult whereas a child has to focus on the meaning rather than the words (the representations).
I think adults can take advantage of their prior knowledge to speed up language acquisition.