Early childhood memories are hard to erase. It is in the early formative years that the brain is at its best; to grasp and retain information. It lasts for a lifetime.
To support this claim, psycholinguists have coined what they term as the 'critical age' in second language acquisition. They portend that beyond the age of 14 (the critical age) it becomes increasingly difficult to acquire a second language.
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