Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site rochester.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!rochester!gary From: gary@rochester.UUCP (Gary Cottrell) Newsgroups: net.kids,net.nlang Subject: Re: Re: Teaching children to be bilingual Message-ID: <2037@rochester.UUCP> Date: Wed, 10-Oct-84 11:07:24 EDT Article-I.D.: rocheste.2037 Posted: Wed Oct 10 11:07:24 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 12-Oct-84 05:06:25 EDT References: <1505@ucla-cs.ARPA>, <858@ihuxb.UUCP> <666@hound.UUCP> Organization: U. of Rochester, CS Dept. Lines: 19 > 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. I had a friend whose parents only spoke Lithuanian to her (though she lived in an English speaking country). She couldn't understand the other kids on the block, and didn't learn English until she went to school (at about age 6, I guess). She now speaks both fluently and without accent. gary cottrell (allegra or seismo)!rochester!gary (UUCP) gary@rochester (ARPA)