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Advocates of the Critical Period Hypothesis will assert that your chance of native-like fluency diminishes greatly by the time you reach 10 years of age. Its detractors argue that between five and 15 per cent of adult bilinguals master a language long after the 'critical period' has come and gone. You'll see where we're going here - alors, ne vous inquiétez pas!
Studies show that adult language-learners tend to memorize phrases before getting to grips with foreign sentence structures. As the former lends greatly to the latter, by learning phrases in context, your conversational skills will come on no end. This section of Flyover French introduces our users to essential French expressions and turns of phrase.
Advocates of the Critical Period Hypothesis will assert that your chance of native-like fluency diminishes greatly by the time you reach 10 years of age. Its detractors argue that between five and 15 per cent of adult bilinguals master a language long after the 'critical period' has come and gone. You'll see where we're going here - alors, ne vous inquiétez pas!
Studies show that adult language-learners tend to memorize phrases before getting to grips with foreign sentence structures. As the former lends greatly to the latter, by learning phrases in context, your conversational skills will come on no end. This section of Flyover French introduces our users to essential French expressions and turns of phrase.
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