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> No one would ever recommend learning Spanish and Mandarin at the same time

American? :-)

Huge portions of the world (Europe and Asia especially) raise children bilingually.



Which by the way has practical advantages. While the child takes a bit longer to learn those languages, it configures her brain in a particular way that makes it possible to think effortlessly in both languages, from the start.

I suspect, (but don't know) this even facilitates the learning of other languages, later on.




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