Is it true women are better at learning languages/linguistics?

I wonder because Im having such a hard time in my intro spanish class but the girls in it act like it is so easy. But Im an engineering student so at least I have that skill.





Is there actual studies or proofs (links) to the claim that women are better at language?Is it true women are better at learning languages/linguistics?
Yes - It's true.





Women use both hemispheres of our brains for processing language, whereas men only use the right hemisphere. This is why boys are at least 8 times more likely to be dyslexic and have learning difficulties.





The fact that women have smaller brains (generally) actually works to women's advantage because MRI's show we have more tightly packed neural bundles and less interrupted neural pathways which means women's brains can 'compensate' better than mens brains.





There is much recent neurological research on this interesting topic and I can refer you to many studies and books if you would like.





Good question! Such an interesting topic.





:-)Is it true women are better at learning languages/linguistics?
1. Yes. There is ample scientific evidence that females are better at learning and working with language.





2. The study of linguistics has nothing to do with learning or working with language per se.





linguistics (l沫ng-gw沫s't沫ks)


n. (used with a sing. verb)


The study of the nature, structure, and variation of language, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, sociolinguistics, and pragmatics.
The Verbal / Spatial differences between males and females is so negligible that neuroscientists have suspended focus on gender differences in intelligence, as we can measure it today, stating that the negligible differences, as can be measured, fluctuate so consistently as to suggest the differences are due to gender acculturations. The results are so close that they reverse back and forth, sometimes males a few points behind, sometimes a few points ahead. The real focus in science right now is not the chauvanism of determining which sex is intellectual ';superior'; but instead on exploring the different and equally valuable ways our brains function and learn. There's, like, as you can imagine, not much research funding available for morons anymore who want to prove a demographic group's intellectual ';inferiority'; or ';superiority';. : )





Also, modern educators and learning theorists do not use the medieval model of Verbal / Spatial styles of learning but instead the modern model of EIGHT different learning styles, not two. Nations that launched curriculum based on identifying individual student's learning style and then designing educational approaches / activities to dove-tail with all 8 styles, beginning about 25-35 years ago now, enjoy the highest academic scores in the world today. I make a living designing natural sciences educational materials and other curriculums for specifically two of these 8 learning styles, neither linguistic nor spatial, so there is no market for my products in the U.S. which remains reeeeealy medieval in it's Verbal / Spatial educational dichotomy.


http://www.ldrc.ca/projects/miinventory/鈥?/a>
Regrettably, I don't have the links off hand, but this is factual. Ladies perform better in verbal tasks, e.g. spelling %26amp; writing poems, whilst men perform better in the maths %26amp; natural sciences.





Here's simply a link based on an ABC special about this:





http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Health/鈥?/a>
YES the average female is better and language than the average male. However none of us are the 'average' so you might be better than the girls you know.