The article is a bit too pessimistic about bilingual homes. Most people in the world are bilingual. That would not be the case if people quickly forgot one of t

The article is a bit too pessimistic about bilingual homes. Most people in the world are bilingual. That would not be the case if people quickly forgot one of their native languages. Language death is not that fast. It is however true that utterly useless languages, especially those taught in schools, are abandoned as soon as the teaching stops. Success rates would be higher if we limited ourselves to one local and one global language, English being the obvious global language.