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From: brennan@iuvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Teaching children to be bilingual
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Date: Fri, 26-Oct-84 02:13:00 EST
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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
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