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When’s the Best Time to Expose Kids to a Second Language?
For those parents who have been debating over what is the right age to introduce their children to a second language, the answer seems to be: Start them from 0-6 months old. Children raised in bilingual homes don’t suffer from … Continue reading
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Are bilingual children smarter? 7 reasons to teach your child a second language: from the cognitive to cultural benefits
1. Bilingual babies develop specific cognitive functions for speech development. According to researchers from the University of Washington’s Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences, bilingual infants “can discriminate phonetic units from both languages with increasing age. Our results suggest that … Continue reading
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