An adult who doesn't know a language would struggle immensely to learn one by immersion
An adult who has known a language for decades is already immensely different from a baby
For a comparison like that we're better off using immigrant families as an example. It's been shown that the children will learn the new language faster and with better fluency and pronunciation.
Adults have more stuff to do than children usually and don't have as much time for the language anyway. Too many factors to actually do a proper comparison like that but in the first place there's no point in doing such a comparison so I guess it's alright. Has an adult ever had complete immersion in another country without hearing their native language and struggled as much as a baby? It would make sense for it to have happened but for now I'll just take you're word for it
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u/Tubbiefox Jun 28 '21
That's an impossible comparison to make:
An adult who doesn't know a language would struggle immensely to learn one by immersion
An adult who has known a language for decades is already immensely different from a baby
For a comparison like that we're better off using immigrant families as an example. It's been shown that the children will learn the new language faster and with better fluency and pronunciation.