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Tips About Bilingual Development
Children are capable of learning two or more languages in childhood.
Children who are exposed to two languages on a daily or weekly basis
show the same milestones in language development at roughly the same
ages as children who are exposed to one language.
Sometimes bilingual children know fewer words in one or both languages
in comparison to children who learn one language. This is because their
memory must store words in two languages rather than one.
Bilingual children learn words in each language from different people in
different situations.For example,they may learn some words from parents
at home, and others from teachers at school. Therefore, they may know
certain words in one language, but not in the other.
Mixing languages in sentences is natural and normal for bilingual children.
This is because they may know some words in one language, but not
the other. They may “borrow” words from one language to complete
a sentence in the other. This tends to disappear by the time they enter
elementary school.
Knowing the language of their parents and grandparents is important to
their cultural identity.