How do children in multilingual households differentiate between the two (or more) languages they’re being taught?
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im multilingual (mum is thai and dad is belgian who speak english to each other) so grew up with 3 languages. apparently when i was younger, and started immediately off with 2 languages, i used to use a mix of thai and dutch. your brain slowly learns that one parent cannot understand specific words because it isnt in their language so you learn to adapt to what your parents understand. my mum taught me my thai and my dad taught me dutch so i guess i learnt which language belongs to who before even knowing what the languages were called. when i was 6 and started learning english, i had already developed the ability to understand that there were different languages. multilingual children grasp the concept of languages much more quickly due to being exposed go more than one
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