Learning a second language?

Why learning a second language is good for American elementary school? Learning a second language is much good reason for American elementary school. First, student can understand other different language. For example many elementary students are immigrants...

Are there any books or articles that start in one language, and slowly introduce words, sentences and concepts in another language, such that by the end of the literature you're digesting a substantial portion of that second language? This may sound...

Implicit learning seems to be exactly the opposite of what mathematicians and programmers would think is important. One might expect them not to like implicit language learning. One would expect them to want to know grammar rules explicitly. Is this...

How do the difficulties of learning a second language show the close relationship of language and culture, and language and thought??

Why did you decide to choose the language as your second language?

If not, at what age does it become compulsory to learn a second official language? Can children choose a language other than the official ones as a second language

I didn't begin learning Mandarin until my mid-20s so I can't speak from the experience of a high school student. However, I would imagine that the difficulties for foreigners learning Mandarin are the same regardless of age. I'd imagine that in general...