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| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4665 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes  Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 17 of 20 15 December 2012 at 8:32pm | IP Logged | ||
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My parents spoke Italian at home; I picked up English from school and friends and so
on. To be honest, it would have been virtually impossible not to pick up English. French at school was never very hard, I suspect mostly because I already "knew" that there was more than one way of expressing anything (plus the similarities in structure between Italian and French would have helped too). I'm sure other people have had other experiences, but I'd never swap having a second (or third ...) language at home for anything. It's going to take me a lot of effort to get my French up to the point where it feels "natural" and I can have French TV on and not have to work at it. I can't imagine how hard it's going to be to do that in Japanese. A multilingual background is such a boon. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4665 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 18 of 20 15 December 2012 at 8:55pm | IP Logged | ||
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(I've no idea how I posted this twice ... I'll wipe the second one ...) Edited by dampingwire on 16 December 2012 at 1:06pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Tsopivo Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4471 days ago 258 posts - 411 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Esperanto | Message 19 of 20 16 December 2012 at 4:46am | IP Logged | ||
I agree with you that luck will play a big part but you can still control some of that. For example, we plan to raise our children bilingually and reading them books in both languages and making sure that we present them with books adapted to their age and taste in both languages is certainly something we would do. I have read many times that multilingual children's language acquisition is delayed and that on average, they know less vocabulary in each language than monolingual children of the same social background. I think the advantages of native multilinguism outweight the negative sides but that's definitively something I would pay attention to. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6597 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 20 of 20 16 December 2012 at 5:35pm | IP Logged | ||
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Well, kudos to you! But remember that most parents aren't that keen AND informed at the same time. They may want but not know what to do, or even worse, they might not even want:(
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