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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 who<br />

are exposed to one language.<br />

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

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

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 is<br />

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

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

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.<br />

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