well, it's not surprising that university covers significantly more dense material than elementary school. it's also not surprising that you're more capable of learning as an adult than as a child.
I think Europeans are bilingual mostly from great exposure to English. Bilingualism in the UK is rare.
There isn't much incentive for English speakers to learn another language. For non-English speakers, the incentive is to gain access to literally 99% of all the cool shit in media, whether it's TV, movies, video games, or the internet.
Almost every person that I know that learned English as a second language did so through exposure. I know a South Korean guy that claimed he learned English as a kid mostly by watching the Pokemon anime. I've heard from people online that learned English by playing Runescape and needing to learn how to converse with the mostly English player base.
I know a South Korean guy that claimed he learned English as a kid mostly by watching the Pokemon anime.
I always heard that children can learn languages more easily. Maybe not true.as far as I know, technically not true. children don't have any more ability to learn languages than anyone else, they just have way more free time, and have been fully immersed in their primary language since birth. supposed to be that it takes approximately 30 years of immersion in a language to become maximally proficient in it, regardless of age.