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Subject: Re: Teaching children to be bilingual
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Date: Thu, 25-Oct-84 09:03:18 EDT
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The order in which languages are learned make a definite difference.
I learned them in this order: Dutch, French, English, German, Spanish.
However, when I learned Spanish, my everyday language was English,
although I was and still am equally fluent in Dutch. Now, when I
have to translate from French into English, I often have to go
through Dutch, while I van translate from Spanish into English
without intermediate steps.

Herman Silbiger