How do children in multilingual households differentiate between the two (or more) languages they’re being taught?
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They kind of don’t, to begin with, and then they do. My kids have both gone through phases of only knowing the word for a thing in one language and mixing the languages together. They only seem to fully understand the concept of translating from one to the other when they hit three years old, before that they may well know that we say “red” in English and “coch” in Welsh but they absolutely cannot answer the question “how do we say red in Welsh” until they’re three for some reason.
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