Age and Learning Capability

Is it true that learning becomes harder as aging? Listen to complain and to performance from adult friends around you---maybe, it is. As the first generation immigrant, I confront more experience of learning a new language, not only from myself, but also my national friends. ``I'm too old to learn a foreign language: It's almost two years after I've landed, but my language skills are limited.''

However, some study shows adults' learning capability is more powerful than kids. Then why people feel harder to learn when becoming older? The secret lies in the `feeling' to `difficulty'. Just see how old some human being baby speaks out the first word: around one year's really full-time learning. And then around 9 years for reading and writing. As adults, few people can contribute around one year in that condition: not only learning a language, but thinking in and feeling that language. Adults have much really complex things to deal with, which occupies most time of learning something. Worse, as adults, we have seen and have felt what difficulty is. Such feeling blocks our endeavor to learning and leads to complain to some extension---babies don't know what difficulty is and how difficult learning is.

So, just leave that negative feeling out from your internals, and then you grab right status for learning.