K-12- Bilingual Education Research Shows Spanish Speakers Take Longer To Learn English. Why? September 15, 2017 . 4:35 PM ET Heard on NPRs All Things Considered A recent study out of Philadelphia tracked kindergartners who were learning English and found that four years later there were major discrepancies between which groups of students had mastered the… Read more Research Shows Spanish Speakers Take Longer To Learn English. Why?