Talent for languages
The assumption of an innate gift for languages assumes that people learn a foreign language with varying degrees of difficulty or ease.
However, this widespread view is not held within linguistics . It is true that there are indeed people who cannot learn a foreign language even with the greatest effort, and others ( polyglots ) who find it surprisingly easy to do so. However, a genetic justification for this phenomenon has not been successful. Failure to learn a foreign language depends more on many biographical factors of the individual. Social, affective , cognitive and general biographical causes play a decisive role.
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- Helmut Glück (Ed.): Metzler Lexicon Language . Stuttgart: Metzler 2000 ISBN 347601519X