How kids become bilingual.

[KyleGoetz]

最初の投稿者：komitsuki

Thank the GVS (Great Vowel Shift) in the British history between and around 1450 and 1750.

I actually read a linguistics article a couple years ago in which a linguist had devised a set of phonetic/orthographic rules for English that describes with about 97-98% accuracy how to pronounce English words. It's just that the rule set was a lot more complicated than something like Spanish.

[Seanus]

Absorption/immersion and having bilingual parents are the most common ways.

[jcj]

For those interested in the research that started this thread. Patricia Kuhl is one of the leading experts in infant language acquisition. This research is important in many ways : treating autism, AI and getting robots to speak to us and also bilingualism. check it out at I-LABS: Patricia Kuhl, Ph.D. - Research

[ozkai]

最初の投稿者：xYinniex

My cousin speaks cantonese and english and he's 2.
It's quite cute really. surprisingly, he doesn't get it mixed up.

That's cute :-)

My son is getting their with his Japanese and English, and he just knows that English is with me and JP on her side.

[SceptileMaster]

I'm Scottish so my L sounds are bad anyway but I somehow get by.

I remember my ex girlfriend always said she thought it was cute how I said my L sounds. Even when she showed me how to do it, my tongue didn't want to move in that direction and I couldn't do it. I definitely find the Japanese らりるれろ sounds (they sound closer to L sounds than R sounds in my opinion) easier than the English L sound as it's a completely different tongue movement as far as I can tell.

Also let's hope my Japanese らりるれろ is okay. Luckily I was pleased at a Japanese casual evening I went to a week or two ago when I was told my pronunciation was good.

[alanX]

最初の投稿者：ozkai

That's cute :-)

My son is getting their with his Japanese and English, and he just knows that English is with me and JP on her side.

You are Australian, and your "wife" is Korean. You're child does not speak Japanese. Give it up

[Megabyte117]

最初の投稿者：alanX

You are Australian, and your "wife" is Korean. You're child does not speak Japanese. Give it up

Is it a bad thing to teach one's child another language, even if they are not of that race?

[ozkai]

最初の投稿者：alanX

You are Australian, and your "wife" is Korean. You're child does not speak Japanese. Give it up

My son's mother and my X-Wife are divorced. Yes she is Japanese.

My now partner is Korean.

[tksensei]

最初の投稿者：alanX

You are Australian, and your "wife" is Korean. You're child does not speak Japanese. Give it up

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[Routetosomewhere]

Well, my dad is English and my mother is Dutch, I am fluent in both languages, I heard English speaking on TV and (had to) talk to my english grandparents from since when I was little. I dunno if it is just me, but now I find learning other languages really easy (and fun ofcourse). So I think if you are bilingual, it's easier to learn new languages/to be open to them.
Also, we get French in school, in which I am quite fluent too, but half of our country (Belgium) is French so I come in contact with it nearly every day (Does that make me trilingual?)

Sorry if this has nothing to do with the topic but, just wanna add this to the conversation y'know