At 65 I started learning Spanish over two years ago when I moved to Spain. I attended a school for three months but couldn't keep up (I was spending almost every evening completing homework) and it was making me miserable.
I then started on Comprehensive Input (it's underpinning in Dynamical System Theory appealed to me) and after a year and a half an hour a day (almost religiously) still can't follow anything useful in the real world.
Now back with a personal tutor twice a week and it has exposed how little I have understood (or even recognised) about the structure of the language and what certain patterns are actually expressing .
This is all very disheartening (especially given that I was successful in business and used to mastering complex systems quickly). I though SLA would be challenging and gave myself two years to become conversational. This has proved totally unrealistic.
I suspect lack of foreign language exposure, and zero grasp of grammar have worked against me.
Anyway I was wondering if there is any academic research on older adults (60+) and SLA that might shed some light on my experience.
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