Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: $Revision: 1.6.2.13 $; site iuvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!inuxc!iuvax!brennan From: brennan@iuvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: Teaching children to be bilingual Message-ID: <7100006@iuvax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 26-Oct-84 02:13:00 EST Article-I.D.: iuvax.7100006 Posted: Fri Oct 26 02:13:00 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 28-Oct-84 06:01:46 EST References: <1505@ucla-cs.UUCP> Lines: 21 Nf-ID: #R:ucla-cs:-150500:iuvax:7100006:000:860 Nf-From: iuvax!brennan Oct 26 01:13:00 1984 Re: What age does one lose the ability to learn language easily? Around puberty (12 [probably give or take n years ;-)]). Re: Will two parents speaking two languages create a bilingual child? Probably not. The best way to raise a child bilingually seems to be for the parents to both speak the non-native language (of the child) and let the child learn the naive tongue outside the home. This seems to be the case from my own experience with bilingual friends and from the previous 14 responses I just read. Flame on> So why does the American Education system wait until high school to offer foreign language courses??? I'm all in favor of foreign language teaching in grammar school! From the sadly monolingual fingers of JD Brennan ...!ihnp4!inuxc!iuvax!brennan (USENET) Brennan@Indiana (CSNET) Brennan.Indiana@CSnet-Relay (ARPA)