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To: one_less who wrote (780061)	4/15/2014 7:43:00 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574485

Boy that is filled with incorrect information. <<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. >> No, the structure of different languages is very similar. The reason as Noam Chomsky taught us is because language is founded in genetics. in fact Shannon's Law of entropy (look if up) is an equation that shows how much information any sound has. All languages are about the same. It is the level of education of the people using the language that can make it seem simple. <<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.>> That is exactly wrong. Studies show people who speak two languages are smarter. They guess it is because the brain must constantly move back and forth so get lots of intellectual exercise. Mental exercise strengthens the mind like physical exercise strengthens the body. 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. It is best to introduce as many languages as you want early on. The mind feeds on information. Education and information always makes the mind stronger!!

To: one_less who wrote (780061)	4/15/2014 8:21:12 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 1574485

Less, 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. It depends on a lot of things. Most of my friends were bilingual at an early age. They never confused their two tongues. Even languages as far apart as English and Mandarin can be picked up simultaneously at an early age. So teaching two languages early on is no problem, IMO. Koan the Know-It-All claims that a family that speaks five languages can teach their children to become fluent in five languages by the age of seven. That is where I call bullshit, because he has no clue on how hard it is to become trilingual, much less go beyond it. Some people can do it, but from what I have observed, the vast majority of people in the world cannot handle it. Usually people just remain fluent in two languages and drop the one that is least being used. Of course, I suspect Koan's definition of "fluency" is rather loose. In that case, you can call me "fluent" in five languages: English, Korean, Japanese, French, and Klingon. Tenchusatsu