What is the best age to learn a language?

What is the best age to learn a language? “At this age, children don’t learn a language – they acquire it,” says the school’s director Carmen Rampersad. Unless there’s a social motivation for it, it’s really difficult to sustain.” Even native speakers learn almost one new word a day in their own language until middle age Earlier this year, a study at MIT based on an online quiz of nearly 670,000 people found that to achieve native-like knowledge of English grammar, it is best to start by about 10 years old, after which that ability declines. This adds to a previous, separate online study that shows even native speakers learn almost one new word a day in their own language until middle age. Getty Even native speakers learn almost one new word a day in their own language until middle age Trenkic points out that the MIT study analysed something extremely specific – the ability to pass for a native speaker in terms of grammatical accuracy.