Learning languages It is widely accepted that learning a foreign language is of great importance for people living in this modern era. However, there are discussions centering on whether adults are better at learning foreign languages than children. Personally, I believe that children have inherent advantages in language study. Some people who favor a view that children have an inherent edge over adults acclaim that kids are good at building up a rich range of vocabulary, which is beneficial to learning a foreign language. This is because a good memory and a great curiosity that children naturally have will help them memorize a large number of foreign words in a short term. These people argue that compared with kids, adults usually face more difficulties in mastering the same amount of vocabulary. I agree with this viewpoint also because children have no extra burden and are supposed to learn new things at their ages. Unlike them, the grownups have to work and face huge invisible social pressure, which defines they could not concentrate on study whole-heartedly as kids do. Therefore, children will greatly benefit from their inherent advantages. Other people who insist that adults are better at learning a foreign language may believe that adults are more likely to dedicate all their spare time to study as they are aware of the purpose of learning and have enough willpower to persevere with study, while kids tend to waste their time for the sake of fun. I admit that most adults study harder than children. However, due to their limited learning time, the overall efforts put into language study is still far less than children. Thus, adults virtually have no obvious advantages in learning a foreign language. In summary, I reaffirm my position that children have more advantages in language study than adults do. Nevertheless, it should be mentioned that kids should take the initiative to study hard as efforts also exert an important role in one’s road to success.