Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Bilingual children

Before reading the article about bilingual children, I knew that the article must have had facts about children who speak more than one language. I question how difficult it is for these children to make it through life. Is it harder for these children to make it through the day? Do these children get confused when speaking two languages? It is very interesting to see people who can speak more than one language because they must know about two cultures instead of one particular kind of culture.
After reading the article most of my questions were answered. Children learning more than one language seem to be a little slow in learning at first, but afterwards they catch up with their fellow friends. Parents talking to children should not mix lanuages. They should speak in one specific and a certain time and the other language at another time. When languages are mixed, the child or person learning becomes confused and this makes the learning process more difficult.

This article involves people and children learning two languages. Bilingual children may not get a grasp on the language at first, but after time they will learn about the culture and master the language. Children should not be discouraged from this difficult learning process because then they may be turned away from the language that they are learning.

1 comment:

  1. I think being bilingual is very important these days because you might travel to the country where you might be able to speak the language, and people would understand you more

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