Learning a language

Learning a new language is really difficult. For adults, it’s even trickier to learn a language different to our mother tongue.

When we are children, our brains are more malleable, and it’s easier to learn things. But as we grow up, our brains lose their plasticity, and it takes more time and effort to understand or memorize words, phrases and rules of grammar.

It's obvious that some languages are more difficult to learn than others, especially when your mother tongue derives from Latin. With this in mind, English is much easier for me than Chinese, for example.

Nowadays in Spain it's really common to find people who are studying English, because knowing different languages is necessary for a lot of jobs, such as mine (I am a teacher). Despite this, learning languages mustn’t be an obligation. If you don’t want to do something, it won't be any fun.

(I've put in some new words, Manoli - trickier, malleable. Try to include shorter sentences in your writing. And you don't need to say "I think" - the reader knows you think it, because you are writing it. It is more powerful to simply state what you think, without introducing it as a thought. "The sunset was so beautiful I cried" is a more forceful expression than "I thought the sunset was so powerful I cried", for example)

Learning a language

I think that learning a new language is really difficult hard because when we are adults it’s more complicated difficult. for us to learn a language different than our mother tongue.
When we are children, our the brain is more plastic and it’s easier to learn things anything. But However, when we are growing up our the brain is losing loses its plasticity and we need more time and effort to understand or memorise words, phrases and grammar rules.
On the other hand, is obviously that there are obviously some languages that are more difficult to learn than another others. This is especially true when your mother tongue comes from the Latin. So, if we consider this, I think that English is much more easier for me than Chinese for example.
Nowadays in Spain, it is really common to find people who are studying English. This is because people need to be able to speak know different languages is necessary in order to be able to do a lot of jobs, such as teaching which is my job like a teacher. Despite of this, I think that learning languages mustn’t shouldn't be an obligation because if you don’t doing anything by yourself it isn’t funny.

Hi Manoli, 

This is a nice piece of writing. I have listed a few comments and tips below.

1) never start a sentence with 'but'!

2) remember that you speak a language instead of know a language.

3) I'm not sure what you are trying to say in the last sentence so maybe give that one a little more thought. 

I hope you find this helpful.

Please get in touch if I can help you further or if you would like me to explain things in more detail. 

Best wishes,

Emily