For example, you have both parents speaking Polish and English. If a baby was born, what will his or her language be? Does it depend on the location of your birth?
Will the child be bilingual? How does it work?
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Babies do not have language when born. They will grow up and speak what they learn around them.
A very good way to teach them is for one parent to speak one exclusively while the other speaks the other also exclusively. In this way the child is truly bi-lingual.
When both parents speak both languages the two can become mixed together with the child not being fluent in either.
Children don’t speak languages when they’re born. They pick up what they hear. If a child is born in England to English parents, but is then taken to Spain to be raised by Spanish parents, they’ll learn Spanish, not English.
I am English and my father is, but he recently had a child with my stepmother, who is French. The child is obviously growing up to learn English, as that’s where she lives, but her mother speaks French to her a lot of the time, in the hope she’ll grow up bilingual. And it seems to be working.
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