Acquisition barriers their L1 For most people, the experience with an L2 is fundamentally different from the L2 experience and it is hardly conducive to acquisition. They usually encounter(rather during their teenage or adult years, in a few hours each week of school time things than via the constant interaction experienced as a child), with a lot of other going on young children have little else to do), and with an already known language available for most of their daily communicative requirements. Despite the fact that insufficient time, focus and incentive undermine many L2 learning attempts, there are