Starting Languages Young (This is Your Ticket to the Ivies!)
Good piece in USA Today on Wednesday about parents who want their kids to start learning many languages when they're as young as two years old. Language, we all know, develops early. And it turns out that kids can learn several languages simultaneously and manage to keep them separate and to speak each of them without an accent. Story tells about a child who is four who is fluent in Japanese and Spanish as well as English. I must say I was just a bit dubious about that claim because the girl is the daughter of the proprietor of school where the child learned those languages. The school starts kids as young as six months in a program called Baby Boot Camp, which combines foreign language with strength training, balance and coordination exercises.
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