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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 children’s parents and grandparents is important to
their cultural identity.