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From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin )
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Subject: Re: Re: Teaching children to be bilingual
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Date: Wed, 17-Oct-84 16:26:24 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 17 16:26:24 1984
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I have often heard that children learn multiple languages easily up to
some age, and then the ability usually dwindles (to the level we have
[probably] all encountered in studying foreign languages in school).
Is this true? If so, what is this magic age?

Is there any limit to the number of different languages a child can
learn in this early age? (I mean pronunciation and syntax more than
vocabulary here -- there's only so much time available to be exposed to
different words, anyway.)

With regard to the child changing over from thinking in Hebrew to thinking
in English, yet speaking Hebrew: Can a person think in more than one language,
or will one always take over and become the "base" or dominant thought language?

Will Martin

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