Simple Swedish Podcast - #297 - Är vuxna eller barn bäst på språk?

Episode Date: September 29, 2025

Vi hör ofta att barn är så bra på språk. Ibland kan det kännas omotiverande - “är jag för gammal för att lära mig?”. Men är det verkligen sant att barn lär sig språk bättre än vuxna? Det ska vi prata om i det här avsnittet! --- Transkript Har du tänkt tanken att barn lär sig språk bättre än vuxna? Ja, det är många som tror att barn lär sig språk bättre än vuxna. Är det verkligen sant? Stämmer det verkligen? Det ska vi prata om i det här avsnittet. Välkommen till Simple Swedish Podcast och innan vi börjar så ska jag tacka Jing, Vivian, Mari och Elke för att ni stödjer den här podden genom att bli patrons och gå till patreon.com/swedishlinguist om du vill stödja podden och få transkript till alla avsnitt. Okej, så som sagt, många människor tror att barn lär sig språk bättre, snabbare, mer effektivt än vuxna. Och det kanske kan kännas lite omotiverande. Man kanske tänker att barn är språkgenier, jag kan inte lära mig så bra som ett barn, barn lär sig språk automatiskt bara genom att vara runt det. Så det kanske gör att man blir lite omotiverad, men är det verkligen sant? Okej, så först och främst, hur lär sig barn? och vi pratar kanske specifikt om ens första språk. Så hur lär sig barn sitt första språk? Jo, först och främst, man har ett konstant språkbad 24/7. Alltså, man är i språket hela, hela tiden. Man har sina föräldrar där och de pratar med dig hela tiden, de pratar med dig, de leker med dig, de tar hand om dig, de guidar dig, de är där hela tiden och kommunicerar med dig på det här språket. En annan faktor är att du har bara ett språk, så om du vill ha nånting så måste du använda det språket för att kommunicera. Så du har inget val, du måste prata på det språket för att få det du vill ha. ...för hela transkriptet, klicka här

Have you the think the thought that barn learn she better than wuxna? Yeah, it is many

who think that that barn learn learn to speak better than are it

really really, is that we're really? That we talk about in this welcome

welcome to simple Swedish and before we so I'll thank you Vigian Maria and Elke for

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if you will stodging pod and get transcript to all Okay, so, some said, many people think that that learn learn speak better, snobberer, more effective than the wuxna, and it maybe can feel a little emotiveering.

You can't think that, ah, is I can I can't so bad as a born barn can learn

automatically just by through to be around it so it can't make that

you get a little unmotivered but is it really really really so

first and first and how how learn she, and we we talk about, especially, um, ens first sprung. So, how

lare she, barn, its first and first of the first, first and first, first, and most, you have a constant sprotbad, 24-7, also, you are in the sproket, hella, all the time, you have

their parents there, and they They're with you They're talking with you. They're They're playing with you. They take hand on you. They guide you. They are there whole time and communicer with you on this

Sprotet. An another factor is that you have just one sprach. So if you will have something, so must you, you, the the word to communicate.

So, you have a lot, you must talk on the word, for to get what you will have. And, you have, barn has very much

cool on the sprotet, they leaker and and are people and do more things, they have not, like, not a mass

studies and prove and problem and so on the things on the sprotet. But they're leeked and cool and communicer. An another factor, they are by listening. And the barn burghur actually listen to redan in

mammas' mag. So, inan we felds, We are we at listen on intonation in the and we listen and we listen in front of several years before we begin start. And prata comes

as number two. So first listen and then talk and then then, then later we also and and and

and by the and learn she grammatique by to begin know

again different different different in the and just

by to hear same muntor on and on again and

then then then automatically understand automatically understand grammatical.

And and they're implicit okay, this is a word that can be important

to understand that that they're implicit so they learn they they're not

not the sproket but they do things and listen and get input and

communicate and the moul is not it's the not the wordet, and they're the wordet

for to do different things, so that they're listening to someone, someone who says something, and thener they're learning, and so, and so it is implicit in-larning, for

you get input, and the gurnan processes this inputting automatically, okay, So, you get, mass, and gyrs, and then inputting, and learn she word, hitts, and grammatical munchester, and so on. Okay, so, so, how lare se, bansprosk?

So, how lare say, wuxna, sprook? So, if we jemphor, barn and wuxna, how you learn, so, first and first and most, oftenest, vuxna, with, to write, so it is completely back-vent.

So, the children start with and then talk, and then listen, and then start

with, and then and then and sit-listen. So it is like, back-vent, also,

it is it's the other And then Wuxna oftenest a viztie Wiss Tid Vissa specific

Daga So you have like some some specific stunders when you Lair Sestellet

for as as barn that we are in the Sproket Constant Then

Vuxna go often curses where we and we have prove and we have okay

testers and so on things and yeah and that has you not barn

but they're and they're the sproket for soot

that is cool or important no no proov no

curser in no no no things soot. Wuxna are she often

explicit. So implicit is when you just get more much input and gyrn process this under-medvetet. So,

you can't specifically on the sprotet. It is implicit. Explicit is when you is, like, actively,

vocabular, or memorirre grammatical, you, you, study the sproket in-seye. It is explicit in-larning. And it

usually be what the so, barn-lare- more implicit. They just in, mass, mass,

mass, mass, information, and the brain-processed it, automatically and under-medveted. An another factor for

vuxna is that that you have already learned a mass of different other-sprok and grammatical mounster from

other-sprok so you have already a mass information while a a baron has more a blank canvass they have

not learned some other other mundster and so and then also the vuxna

have a very a very strong medvetenheten about self medvetenhet

so that you you are medvieten of self, I mean, you know, you have

a sort of a lot of what can say awareness on se self. And it does often

that you're ready to say fell, you're unbequem at talk other

speak for that you know that it is not I, You know, you know, maybe, or you know, or you know, or you can't have any identityet on the new sproket, or you can't feel she, obequem, to not be quite smart as you are on its modersmol, or

like roly as you on his mother's mrs. So, so you have the kind of medvetenhetenheten about I would be so here or so here or if I

not are so here so, so are it not good. Okay, so barn have no even self-medvetenheten they, they don't, they're not, they're not, they're not. They're not over-beckfutable in some sort of

new identity, but they're, as, as a blank canvas. They're, as they're, as a blank canvas. They And so, so that there's many different different between how children and vuxna oftenest learn speak. And I say oftenest for vuxna can you actually

can actually value how man will learn to speak. And now, now, now, now, ringed it here. But if we look at the here, which is then best

to learn to learn say in sprook? Have barn some sort of supercraft that when they

be wuxna or can actually vuxna be better on to learn to learn to

okay so there There's some that they are unica well barn has you

like a blank canvass as said that the urnan is like a blank canvas they're

they're they're from no so to example they're very open for

all different new so they can hear a on the on the use that's

kind of like but then when we have vant the yearnan by a

specific yud system so when we have learned us our mother'smol so has

the gyrnan like want these specific in the sprued, and it it will be more than to hear

a difference on new young, for barn is better on to hear shillnard on many, many different

different in the and they can also begin to talk with an without accent if you learn

if you learn a new and you are barn then you are chance and you begin talk without

accent or without brutening is like an outlensk accent so that you're

talking as an infud whole so and and and

barn is also better on to learn correct grammatig, just through implicit inlayning. So, for that they are,

like, some a blank canvass, whole simple. So, there are some some children are better on. Their gyrna are better on the

vuxna. But, but it the most that, the most that barn do, that they're very effective. The most of that can wuxna also do. As, to example, to bathe in the sprotet, that you have massive input

the whole time, that you omger with the sprotet, so that that you have the sprotet around me, constant every day. The more you have a sprookbad, the more effectively

will you learn you. And, the wuxna can also, and bode also, to use implicit inlarning.

Also, we are wuxna, we can also learn us very much through implicit inlarning. All so, you get massive input, you're lester much, you listener much, and the GERNANN comes to process this automatic, and undermedvetet.

OK, 90% of all sprachin learning is implicit. Okay, this is very important to understand. Also, that just by, just by you, just by doing that, to get a lot of input, so come your gyrna to process it here and learn to learn it under medvetetet.

Okay? so we have also the so we're also the from wuxna a other thing that you can do as a wuxen is that you're

with to listen much and to learn to learn utal for when we begin with to listen

then then come gheran can use the the same-systimate from other-sprok for to minas the new words and that you

do that you learn so it is much, much better to begin with to listen much on the and then learn you also better utal

an other thing that wexen can is that okay with on a lower and not be like smart and maybe

have so much identity and so you must be okay with it, you must accept it, that you are not

like smart and you are not like roly You can't It's a little bit It is okay And also To be perfectionist

That you are okay With to say FEL That you know Not like And so much For that It is something

That's something Wuxna also Can and Bored and and for all that you're on actually

to actually to something that's kind that feels cute, that that you that you so tidit

as much begin to see self as an an anvvendary of the and not just a student of

Sprotet. Barn They're never as a student of Sprotet. Sprotet is from the beginning something they are constant for to

get more things do things, communicate, and so and so forth. And that can we do also as

the vuxna. So, the most can you actually Vuxna also do plus that Vuxna

have many overtak actually that not barn has so Vuxna have some some

some some those whovuxna can better than so to example Vuxna forstor all concept

in life redan You know what it You know what it's got in school And you know what Kriog and Fred are And you know what vanskap are And you know how it is

To look at And all things in the Life have you Redan learnt So you Behover not Lairdly that also You can just

You can just Laira you, the same the the same the same can. Wuxna can also

overshutta. And, to overshutte mellansprok is very effective for to learn to start

especially in bursan. So, the more avanserer more should you but in the but in the very

effective to and using and we can always always use for to learn us new things very fast and then

have vuxna also higher intelligence and more more cognitive Firmogative Firmogar. So, you can understand grammatique better,

you can have strategies for their studies. Yeah, you know, you can, you can build your

studies, you can build your life, as you can help and, yeah,

scapa and planer, you know, more more, intelligent and more

cognitive formogne, so, so vucsna has actually a stronger capacity than a child to learn say in school. But it is, so that if you're,

if you're learning in a natural set. So, to example, general, given massive exponeration, to listen very much, that you know, that you know, that you know, that you're talking about the word, that you're talking to, have cool, instead of just for that just for just to go

on courses and scriver and stuff. That you have focus on communication and not perfection, that that you learn grammatique implicit, but also explicit, that you combine implicit and

explicit in-larning for best result. And, yeah, I, that we can accepter the things that

are better on the wuxner, which is to talk with a natural accent and to hear a skillnard on different different and maybe also to learn a whole correct grammatic. But all the other is wuxnered, in fact, or vucsna can be much, much better, have much higher potential to learn

more effective than a child. So, that was that, and if you will learn more as a barn, also, if you will learn you learn in a milieu,

where you can slapna off, have cool, and talk every day with right people people in in the same situation and you

and not have no press but just talk much, have a trevely and learn so much okay

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