Re: Please welcome . . .

At 11:45 14.12.2003, dansulani wrote:

>     (BTW, my own kids were raised bilingual
>in Hebrew and English and had no problems
>coping with both langs!)
Coping with two or more languages is no problem.
Kids can and do learn multiple languages under
the right circumstances.  The problem comes, as
Dan says, when there is an element of *force*,
as the parents at my son's cindergarten who
demand of their son to speak English with them.

I myself grew up speaking Swedish and German, and
acquiring a good passive command of Norwegian --
which was later easily converted into semi-
active command -- but at about age 9 I refused
to speak German to my mother, mainly because
other kids had been teasing me because of it.

When my son was born I considered to speak
Quenya to him, but I rejected it on the grounds
that it would create a strange relation between
us; being a language minority of two might
actually be psychologically unsound.



/BP 8^)
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