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The hardest thing for children to learn

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Well, he is only 6.
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To shut the **** up
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A parent told me that foreign languages are the most difficult thing to learn unless children have been bi / multi lingual almost since birth.

However, teaching foreign languages in primary school, rather than delaying them to secondary school, will not really be effective unless the children use the language outside of school. Most Norwegians are fluent in English but that is because they regulary use English during their childhood as hardly anybody outside of Norway knows Norwegian and there is very little published material in Norwegian. The same cannot be said for most native English speakers learning French or German as they have far less use for the language in the real world, so they will rarely end up using it outside of lessons.

The parent mentioned a similar phenomenon during the Cold War era where it was commonplace for native speakers of Russian not to have working knowledge of any other language used in the communist world but native speakers of other languages - such as Czech or Bulgarian or Hungarian - often knew Russian.

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