For the children, the show is a new experience: a humorous, high-energy piece of foolish theatre that transcends the boundaries of culture, language, age and race.
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He told the Guardian that almost every other advanced country teaches a foreign language from that age, and the UK should set itself the same target.
At the age of 12, pupils start a second language and at 14 a third language.
Enamored with the language, he took off to New Jersey at age 17 and began working as a waiter while practicing his English.
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The first minister also answered questions on water supplies to Wales, lowering the voting age to sixteen and ensuring that the Welsh Language Commissioner has operational and financial independence.
In the meantime, the best thing we can do for language in the cyber age is to give our batteries a rest and let our brains do some work for a change.
The ending of compulsory language learning after the age of 14 in 2004 brought England into line with Scotland and Wales.
Led by a team from the University of Connecticut, researchers last week reported that they had identified 34 people who had all been diagnosed with autism by age 5 but years later were indistinguishable from peers on language, socialization and communication skills.
The Pan European Game Information system (Pegi) gives games an age rating as well as additional information such as violent content and bad language.
Despite an attempted abduction by Microsoft (foiled by the courts) and a few fumbles by Sun (torn between wanting to coddle its offspring and handing over the language to developers at large), Java is now coming of age.
But he spoke in Italian, the language cardinals most commonly use inside Vatican City and the native tongue of Italy's 28 voting-age cardinals, the most of any single nation.
Like with any language, immersion at an early age ensures adaptability to new scenarios, regardless of specific experience, and increases the likelihood of eloquence when it comes to treating these systems and environments for what they are: tools for building and creating.
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Many young people are now reared to speak only English, and one teen-age student told me that even adults who once spoke only Tamil, the local language, were beginning to speak Tanglish with their children.
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