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- Thanks for an interesting article.
I just wanted to say that children in most cases have much more capabilities than people think.
Our daughter is now 9, and she speaks 3 languages fluently. We are both foreigners speaking English at home. So she grew up with this as the basic language.
As I am from Norway, I decided to only talk Norwegian to her when me and her were alone together. She is also watching kinder programs from Norway almost every day.
She has been in dutch kinder garden and is now in a dutch local school.
It is quite amazing, but she switches directly between the 3 languages, english-norwegian-dutch, without thinking about it.
So as I said, we must not underestimate the kids abilities. I wish I had the same possibility when I was a child!
Bjorn Solli Raising children bilingually, 05/09/2008 12:57 - Thanks for an interesting article.
I just wanted to say that children in most cases have much more capabilities than people think.
Our daughter is now 9, and she speaks 3 languages fluently. We are both foreigners speaking English at home. So she grew up with this as the basic language.
As I am from Norway, I decided to only talk Norwegian to her when me and her were alone together. She is also watching kinder programs from Norway almost every day.
She has been in dutch kinder garden and is now in a dutch local school.
It is quite amazing, but she switches directly between the 3 languages, english-norwegian-dutch, without thinking about it.
So as I said, we must not underestimate the kids abilities. I wish I had the same possibility when I was a child!
Bjorn Solli Raising children bilingually, 05/09/2008 12:57 - thats what happens when you ship in cheap labour, then expect to change peoples cultures, multiculturinsm is not possible, when are the naieve, idealistic, patronizing middle classes going to learn, looks like from now onwards, too late suckers. Everybody wants to rule the world, especially the secular religions, who do not want to mix, they are from a dog eat dog world, give em an inch they take a mile, not rocket science to most. Ambulance staff threatens strike action, 05/09/2008 12:38
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