We are now living in a very diversified culture and society. It is natural to find people who are speaking at least two language, these people are bilingual. But there are some bilingual parents or even those who are not, that are afraid that their teaching their children two languages would make them confused. Is learning two languages beneficial to our kids?

Most of the times, these children who have learn two languages find it as a necessity in their environment and community (Houwer, 1999). There are some cases that children would grow up in communities where most of the people who speak in two languages on their everyday tasks. This would have impact on how children would acquire and later on, speak these languages.

Not all parents are happy with their children learning to speak two languages. There are speech therapists who believe that learning two languages could actually cause language delays. They would say that children would end up confused. In some cases, they would even suggest that parents make way for the dominant or major language, and drop speaking secondary languages. They believed that acquiring the main language of the environment will be better if there are no other languages to compete with.

On the contrary, these claims by speech therapists still remain to be unproved and without any supporting scientific evidence. There are many children who have grown up in bilingual even multilingual family and community, and they did not develop any language disorders or delays.

Some linguists and child development experts would even recommend children to be taught with foreign language between birth and age 7. There are studies showing that children can say about 50 words, whether they are monolingual or bilingual, by the time they reach 18 months. Apparently, according to Italian researches, a baby or child that learns how to speak two languages could actually make the brain more flexible. Experts also discovered that the ability of children to acquire language easily would decline when they reach puberty.

If you are a parent who wants to have a bilingual child then there are something that you can do.

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