Children - study a foreign language - earliest grades (P.2) A sizeable percentage of people support the view that the best way to learn a foreign language is to start studying it during childhood since it is difficult to learn new things when you grow older. When it comes to information, children are more eager to absorb it; while adults are busy analyzing it to decide whether to receive the information or not. One typical example of this is that children listen and repeat exactly what they heard without question about grammar, which makes it easier for them to learn speaking, especially in the case of spoken language. On the other hand, there are also quite a few people who claim that it would be extremely demanding for kids when they first go to school. In fact, they are still acquiring their mother tongue by improving skills such as reading and writing at primary schools. It is likely that they will be mistaken between two languages and apply the technique for learning their native language to the foreign language, which can result in negative effects. For example, a Vietnamese kid may spell ‘because’ as three separate syllables to memorize how to write it as all Vietnamese words contain one syllable.