No. Even very young children switch from language to language with ease. In multilingual families, it's not usual for children to hear instructions like "I spoke to you in Mandarin, so please respond in Mandarin."
Not really. They get to learn both. I know since I grew in a house where my parent spoke two languages and at school I was taught in another language. now I speak all 3 and a 4th one. the downside is that you might not be as fluent as other who communicate with one language as you tend to interchange between languages to express yourself other can do best with just one.
Actually, kids brains are wired differently from adults'. When they are young their ability to pick up language skills is great, since once they begin to feel some autonomy and control, they need to be able to express themselves and their wants and needs by doing something other than crying. It's actually when humans get older, their skill at picking up another language decreases.
Kids learn to speak one language at home with Grandma, and one language at school, if that's different. Hopefully, someone will teach them that excluding people by speaking a language that people don't understand is rude.
Absolutely not. You just have to explain it right. Kids have no trouble with "school language" being different from "home language" and "Granma's language".
You can't stop the kids learning the languages spoken around them, but gently point out that not everybody understands all those languages, so the kids must not mix them in the same sentence. When speaking to Granma, you use her language as pure as you can. Kids have no trouble with that.
The short answer is no. Children are incredibly sensitive to the different ways people speak. Even when they only hear one language, they learn very quickly about differences between the way men and women talk, the difference between polite and impolite ways of talking, and so on. For children, the bilingual situation is just a matter of another difference between people!
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No. Even very young children switch from language to language with ease. In multilingual families, it's not usual for children to hear instructions like "I spoke to you in Mandarin, so please respond in Mandarin."
Not really. They get to learn both. I know since I grew in a house where my parent spoke two languages and at school I was taught in another language. now I speak all 3 and a 4th one. the downside is that you might not be as fluent as other who communicate with one language as you tend to interchange between languages to express yourself other can do best with just one.
Actually, kids brains are wired differently from adults'. When they are young their ability to pick up language skills is great, since once they begin to feel some autonomy and control, they need to be able to express themselves and their wants and needs by doing something other than crying. It's actually when humans get older, their skill at picking up another language decreases.
Kids learn to speak one language at home with Grandma, and one language at school, if that's different. Hopefully, someone will teach them that excluding people by speaking a language that people don't understand is rude.
Children think nothing of it.
They learn words and phrases like nothing.
Adults are the ones that turn it awkward.
Absolutely not. You just have to explain it right. Kids have no trouble with "school language" being different from "home language" and "Granma's language".
You can't stop the kids learning the languages spoken around them, but gently point out that not everybody understands all those languages, so the kids must not mix them in the same sentence. When speaking to Granma, you use her language as pure as you can. Kids have no trouble with that.
The short answer is no. Children are incredibly sensitive to the different ways people speak. Even when they only hear one language, they learn very quickly about differences between the way men and women talk, the difference between polite and impolite ways of talking, and so on. For children, the bilingual situation is just a matter of another difference between people!
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