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an early start provides maximum learning time for English as a foreign language – the earlier you start
the
more time you have to learn;
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children who learn a first foreign language at pre-school or primary school levels have a better chance to
take a second foreign language in the secondary school;
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from an early age children are exposed to the cultures of the countries where the target language is
spoken; they grow up tolerant and sympathetic to other people;
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learning a foreign language at early age, apart from practical value, stimulates children’s ability to use
their mother tongue better;
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learning languages improves children’s memory,
thinking, perception, imagination, etc.
In terms of language skills and fluency, pre-teens and early teens are usually quite alert and confident.
They can communicate well in their own language; they are familiar with the basics of such diverse subjects as
literature, history and mathematics; they are also beginning to study science as a subject, and to realize that it is a
field of knowledge unlike any other. An ideal student, according to any national
standards of education, has the
ability and the desire to master all those skills, and to use the new information as a tool of self-development on
their way to becoming a full-fledged valuable member of society [1].
