Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site eosp1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!eosp1!robison From: robison@eosp1.UUCP (Tobias D. Robison) Newsgroups: net.kids,net.nlang Subject: Re: Teaching children to be bilingual Message-ID: <1170@eosp1.UUCP> Date: Tue, 9-Oct-84 18:20:48 EDT Article-I.D.: eosp1.1170 Posted: Tue Oct 9 18:20:48 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 10-Oct-84 06:12:15 EDT References: <1505@ucla-cs.ARPA> <858@ihuxb.UUCP> Reply-To: robison@eosp1.UUCP (Tobias D. Robison) Organization: Exxon Office Systems, Princeton Lines: 11 A friend of ours was born in Israel and is now a fine teacher of Hebrew in the US. Her children have always been fluent in both English and Hebrew, but she was able to tell, from her older child's use of idioms, that when her daughter was about six years old, she stopped thinking in Hebrew, and instead thought in English while speaking in Hebrew. - Toby Robison (not Robinson!) allegra!eosp1!robison or: decvax!ittvax!eosp1!robison or (emergency): princeton!eosp1!robison