Human Growth and Development / Unit 7 HGD 0972 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Multilingual Children
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The idea
About twenty-six percent of US children are multilingual, compared with ninety percent in Singapore, sixty-seven in Europe and fifty-five in Canada.
In practice
US multilingual children speaking more than one hundred languages, about three-quarters of them Spanish and English.
Where people slip
Simultaneous bilinguals learn two languages from the start; sequential bilinguals learn a second language later, which takes longer.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
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