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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (780055)4/15/2014 6:58:08 PM
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Language development parallels social development, where language is a function of social interaction. The structure of one language is different than that of another. I have witnessed many immigrant families trying to raise their kids on the language of national origin. It almost always fails. The kid usually adopts English. To the frustation of parents, the kid answers them in English when the parent speaks to them in their native language.

Language is a brain function as well. So when parents insist on two languages in an early age the brain is not able to determine which language structure to use in facilitating effective social interaction with others, due to the differences between the languages. So you can cause a type of learning disability this way. There are exceptions.

Best practice is to get fluency in one language first and by age 7 or so start to push fluency in a second language. Its ok to introduce the second language earlier but not to insist the kid function in two languages before the language center of their brain is developed. If you introduce languages before age eleven the brain will know how to make all the sounds properly... after 11 the likelihood of accents increases.
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