How do children in multilingual households differentiate between the two (or more) languages they’re being taught?
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I am french and my wife is german.
We have 2 sons. My eldest is 5,5 years old and my youngest is 2.
Since he is 1,5 yo my eldest speaks pretty fluently in both language (he’s been diagnosed 3 weeks ago as a child with high potential, he has his first distinguichable words by 11 months old).
When he speaks german and I (when I undestand what he says) answer he calls me back saying he speaks to his mom! (Somehow scolding me).
When my eldest was 4 month old or so, I happened to meet a spanish/french couple and the father told me that children see language as a code. A code with the father and a code with the mother. It totally made sense to me since then.
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