introducing them earlier is recommended by some educationalists. This policy has beer adopted by some educational authorities or individual schools, with both positive and Negative outcomes

The obvious argument in its favour is that young children pick up languages much more easily than teenagers. Their brains are still programmed to acquire their mother tongue which facilitates learning another language, and unlike adolescents, they are not inhibite by self-consciousness. The greater flexibility of the primary timetable allows for more frequent, shorter session […]