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Learning or speaking more than one (native) language. See also the tags [language] and [language-development].

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Is raising a child bilingually with English worth the effort?

Ah, this is actually a question about native fluent speakers vs near-native fluent speakers. The excellent English you hear in Germany is near native fluency. They get that by hard work and having a c …
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Will it confuse my son if I try to teach him 3 languages, two of which are very close to eac...

There are entire countries where language switching is the norm, i.e. from sentence to sentence you switch among two or more languages. They do not get confused. People who are monolingual think spea …
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7 votes

3 languages family

Sources 7 Steps to Raising a Bilingual Child http://www.amazon.com/7-Steps-Raising-Bilingual-Child/dp/0814400469/ref=sr_1_1? … ie=UTF8&qid=1444857104&sr=8-1&keywords=raise+child+bilingual Raising a Bilingual Child http://www.amazon.com/Raising-Bilingual-Child-Living-Language/dp/1400023343/ref=sr_1_3? …
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I need a Bi-lingual strategy for my 3yr old

The one parent-one language policy is popular in many advice books on how to raise bilingual children, that said many policies work provided that the child gets enough exposure to each language (ballpark …
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Should I teach my child a second language?

People who are bilingual get dementia and alzheimers less often/later than monolinguals. …
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Songs for teaching hindi/kannada phonics?

From 0 to now, your baby has been listening to the sounds of the language. Quantity is more important than quality-- that seems to be the consensus for the writers of the English, Tagalog and Russian …
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Too many languages?

So my question is, would my child be confused if I spoke Kurdish with it and Danish to my husband and my husband spoke Turkish to the child? As an adult, when I'm a 2nd language learner, I neve …
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3 votes

Should I make my child respond to me in my language?

From my reading of "Raising a Bilingual Child", Zurur, it's common for kids to switch to their stronger language because their goal is communication, they don't really see the importance of practice for …
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6 votes

How to encourage speech development

a Bilingual Baby http://www.amazon.com/Raising-Bilingual-Living-Language-Series/dp/1400023343/ref=sr_1_1? … ie=UTF8&qid=1367069814&sr=8-1&keywords=bilingual+raising …
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How to read an English story book to the kid when we don't talk in English at home?

What's the spoken language policy at home? One parent-one language is a popular policy in Europe. India & Philippines are remarkable for the nonstop language switching and that system seems to work fi …
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What language should we teach our child if our native tongue is different from the local lan...

Ref: books on amazon, Raising a Bilingual Child (forgot the exact author & title, if I have time I'll look it up) …
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Will teaching American Sign Language provide the same developmental benefits as a bilingual ...

I see you are sold on the idea of raising a bilingual kid-- me too, baby just arrived last month, and we're doing Russian, English with ASL. … I think the boundary between parents using baby ASL and those raising bilingual sign/English children is: sheer quantity of vocabulary, baby ASL tops out at 50 or so words, conversational ASL requires …
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