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The article is specifically about children who grow up bilingually. Until this "breakthrough", those children were thought to be disadvantaged, because they did
by xt11 7y ago
The article is specifically about children who grow up bilingually. Until this "breakthrough", those children were thought to be disadvantaged, because they did not learn a single language in the same depth as the majority (so was the reasoning at least).
As usual, it is hard to correct for other factors; children who grow up bilingually usually belong to privileged classes.
- jotm 7y agoEasy - study children in Eastern Europe/Baltic states. Lots of people grow up bilingual, with English as a third language, too.
- Avamander 7y agoLots of those people become tetralingual because they have time left over the three languages that are taught anyways. E.g. Russian and Estonian as native language, English plus a fourth language from school. Those who do not have a bilingual family only learn three during the same time. E.g. Estonian, English and Russian. I kind-of envy the first group of people because it's cool to be able to access so many spheres of culture, I often use Google Translate to try and get a glimpse of Russian forums for example, it's just very different and so useful because of that.
- jotm 7y agoRussian forums have all sorts of nice software/hacks for smartphones, tablets, laptops, etc. Only place I could find a programmer (and a ton of firmware) for washing machine and dryer boards. Chinese forums/websites seem to be even better, but harder to get into (translation issues, have to sign up/log in to a lot of them).
- krastanov 7y agoI am wondering about the ending statement in your comment: > As usual, it is hard to correct for other factors; children who grow up bilingually usually belong to privileged classes. I am pretty sure that is true in Switzerland, but in the USA kids like that frequently start out in the lower-middle class (first generation Americans).