Small Children, Languages and Myths
Home and Family
Our children are growing up bilingual in the French part of
Canada ' Québec. 'That's fine', says everyone. 'Even though
they'll probably start speaking later because they're learning
two languages at once, they'll catch up.'
Well actually, this well-entrenched idea that bilingual children
are slower to acquire language, is actually a myth!
We were surprised and delighted to learn that research is
finding that bilingual children do NOT acquire language later
than monolingual children. Our ...Read the rest of this entry »
January 18th, 2012



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