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Tips on raising bilingual children
According to some research and personal experience, I would suggest to use the first option "One adult - one language" for younger children (until the age of 4 or 5). At that stage children do not ...
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Tips on raising bilingual children
Send your child (when around 4 years old) for a long summer vacation (full immersion course) in Russia with grandparents. Your 4 year old child will be fluent in Russian in just 3-4 months, so well ...
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What is my first and second language?
This is true.
From Catija's answer and mainly her source in English Language Learners, we get a lot of information and thus, answers. She mentions first that one can have several first languages, or "...
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When to start encouraging my bilingual child not to mix languages?
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Now.
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The common approach to teaching bilingual children is "one person - one language". Little kids are confused by contextual language switching (e.g. we speak one ...
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When to start encouraging my bilingual child not to mix languages?
We are a monolingual family living in a foreign country. Our daughter, now almost four years old, clearly understands the concept of foreign languages and can count in our native language and two ...
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What is my first and second language?
Strictly speaking, there can be only one "first language". Even in the case of simultaneous bilingualism, i.e. the acquisition of two languages from birth, there is typically a dominant language and a ...
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