Anyone who attends a public high school in the United States is required to take at least one credit of foreign language education. For most, this language is Spanish. For years, teachers have used a vocabulary and grammar approach to Spanish learning, and have found that the older a student is, the less likely they are to catch on to this method of teaching. As you age, your brain becomes more and more hard-wired. That is, it thinks it has everything it needs, so it doesn’t want to learn anything new. This is why many schools have started teaching foreign language education as early as the first grade; six-year-olds are much more accustomed to acquiring new things than sixteen-year olds. read more...