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Why is it easy for young children to learn language?Part of the answer is that children have so many needs．They have to make their needs known and they are always watching the effect of what they say and trying new ways of getting what they want．Another part of the answer is that children are not, as older people sometimes are, fixed in their ways of living．When they are taken about from one country to another they change easily from one language to another．Older people are more fixed in the ways．They have been hearing and talking one language for a long time．Their ways of hearing and making sounds and of putting words together are like the rails a train goes on．They have been up and down their lines of talk and thought too many times to change them easily．A child is free in his ways．He is more like an airplane or, better, like a bird; he is free to go in any direction he wants．He is free to hear sounds as they are and make them as he hears them．He is free to put new words together in new ways in speaking a new language．