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From: llfe@hound.UUCP (L.FENG)
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Subject: Re: Teaching children to be bilingual
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Date: Mon, 8-Oct-84 16:29:41 EDT
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The other thing that happens is that children learn to
understand (listen) to language X, but not speak it.
(Assuming that Y is the local language.)  This is not
all that bad.  It is much easier to learn a language 
in school if you have a prior listening knowledge of it.

The limitation is that the range of vocabulary is usually
restricted to work/play about the home, and doesn't
emcompass things like politics, economics, science.
-- 
From the lunch hour of houxz!llf.