(ELI5) when babies are raised with bilingual families, are they learning it as just one jumbled language, or as two separate languages?

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Also would it become difficult to discern and seperate them when they join school for example, and interact with people that only speak one

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It depends on how they hear it and how often.
My 2 daughters 5 and 9 have grown with us talking to them in “Spanglish” (English with some Spanish thrown in). They would have conversations with us and each other in the same way. When they would go visit their grandparents they were spoken to in Spanish only. It wasn’t until my youngest was about 4 when she began to understand some of the words she used were Spanish and some were English. Not the best way to teach a child to be bilingual pero nimodo. So in our case they learned both languages as 1 and learned to separate it later.

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