How Does Language Learning Work?

In 2016, California voters decided to bring back bilingual education after eighteen years of English-only instruction .How does learning multiples languages affect how we interact with new people, cultures, locations, and ideas?What is the best approach for learning a new language?Luis Wiley explores these questions as he considers his own experiences learning languages . WRITER'S MEMO:The process of writing this letter introducing me to the controversy surrounding language learning .I had been studying German for quite some time, and I thought I had a pretty good idea of the best way to approach languages .I thought the reason I had not done well previously was because I was not in the right environment .However, researching multiple hypotheses shed light on a number of different possibilities: perhaps my age was a factor, or perhaps I simply not motivated enough .