8 Ways to Boost the Minority Language in a Bilingual Family

In most bilingual families one language is usually spoken more than the other. This may be because one of the parents is a native speaker from that country and perhaps the family is living there, immersed in the language. Or it may be due to the fact, that a family has chosen one to focus on as a primary language, which is then used most during family life, to give instructions, to communicate and most of all, to resolve conflicts. In any case, most bilingual adults never actually reach 100%...

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Published on December 08, 2012 03:51
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message 1: by Paddy (new)

Paddy O'callaghan used to be said by older generations that using both languages at home would disadvantage the child, and leave them linguistically confused when they were ready to start school. WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111


message 2: by Carolyn (new)

Carolyn Wilhelm You are right that dual languages at home from birth are great for children.


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