About the book: 2017 / We often hear that learning a foreign language is much more difficult for adults than for children. Is this true? Children do remember words faster and have an easier time learning to speak with the correct accent, but adults have advantages that only age brings: life experience and skills. Therefore, it may even be easier for them to learn the language, but they need to do it differently. Drawing on research in psychology and linguistics and their own experience teaching and learning languages, cognitive scientists Richard Roberts and Roger Kroes tell in this book how to form a study habit, the harms of cramming and the benefits of being on the tip of your tongue, and how not to become a language zombie, capable of expressing yourself only in memorized phrases. You can master a foreign language at any age, and tips and advice from Roberts and Croesus will make learning a language especially enjoyable and effective.