http://easylearnlanguages.com/blog/children-and-foreign-language/teaching-a-child-a-foreign-language-good-or-bad Discussions about children learning a second language. Tue, 24 Apr 2012 07:00:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://easylearnlanguages.com/blog/children-and-foreign-language/teaching-a-child-a-foreign-language-good-or-bad/comment-page-1#comment-285 Robert Sat, 17 Apr 2010 05:37:39 +0000 http://easylearnlanguages.com/blog/?p=48#comment-285 My children heard two languages throughout the time that they were growing up and have gone on later to attain very high school and college grades. I have known other families where the children learned as many as 4 languages concurrently - The father was German, mother Swedish, many of their friends using English as the common language, yet living and going to school in France. This might seem extreme, but on a visit to Istanbul I encountered children who made a effort to engage me in conversation trying a string of different languages until they got a reaction. My conclusion; no harm seems to come from being exposed to multiple languages in childhood. My children heard two languages throughout the time that they were growing up and have gone on later to attain very high school and college grades. I have known other families where the children learned as many as 4 languages concurrently – The father was German, mother Swedish, many of their friends using English as the common language, yet living and going to school in France. This might seem extreme, but on a visit to Istanbul I encountered children who made a effort to engage me in conversation trying a string of different languages until they got a reaction. My conclusion; no harm seems to come from being exposed to multiple languages in childhood.

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