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Tips About Bilingual Development<br />

Children are capable of learning two or more languages in childhood.<br />

Children who are exposed to two languages on a daily or weekly basis show the<br />

same milestones in language development at roughly the same ages as children<br />

who are exposed to one language.<br />

Sometimes bilingual children know fewer words in one or both languages in<br />

comparison to children who learn one language. This is because their memory<br />

must store words in two languages rather than one.<br />

Bilingual children learn words in each language from different people in different<br />

situations. For example, they may learn some words from parents at home and<br />

others from teachers at school. Therefore,they may know certain words in one<br />

language, but not in the other.<br />

Mixing languages in sentences is natural and normal for bilingual children. This<br />

is because they may know some words in one language but not the other. They<br />

may “borrow” words from one language to complete a sentence in the other.<br />

This tends to disappear by the time they enter elementary school.<br />

Knowing the language of their parents and grandparents is important to their<br />

cultural identity.

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