Weekly Writing Topic III: The best age to start learning Like last week and the week before, I'd like to put this forward as a discussion topic (or prompt for your own notebook entries!). If you would like feedback on your response, please write *feedback please* or *edit please* at the bottom. Different countries start public language education at different ages - some US public schools start offering language classes in primary school, while other students don't start learning languages until they're in 7th or 8th grade. When I lived in China almost every student across the country started learning English in 3rd grade - and an increasing number of parents were sending their one and two-year-old children to English classes or bilingual kindergartens. When did you start learning a foreign language? At what age does public language education start in your country? Do you think this is a good age, too young, or too old? At what age should students start learning a foreign language?