> Nope, learning multiple languages from the beginning has been shown to have many benefits.
Anecdata: I'm a native English speaker but as a little kid I was completely bilingual in French (dad was a USAF officer stationed in central France, we lived "on the economy" in a little farm village 30 miles from the base and my sisters and I started school in the village schools). I've long had the impression that native fluency in both languages had benefits; it certainly gave me easy A+ grades in high-school and college French classes, but otherwise I couldn't begin to articulate what those benefits might be.
These days my French is pretty rudimentary, but my wife and I like to watch some English-subtitled French TV series on Netflix and Acorn, e.g., Call My Agent, Candice Renoir, and Munch; it's fun to recognize idioms and sometimes not even need the subtitles.
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> Nope, learning multiple languages from the beginning has been shown to have many benefits.
Anecdata: I'm a native English speaker but as a little kid I was completely bilingual in French (dad was a USAF officer stationed in central France, we lived "on the economy" in a little farm village 30 miles from the base and my sisters and I started school in the village schools). I've long had the impression that native fluency in both languages had benefits; it certainly gave me easy A+ grades in high-school and college French classes, but otherwise I couldn't begin to articulate what those benefits might be.
These days my French is pretty rudimentary, but my wife and I like to watch some English-subtitled French TV series on Netflix and Acorn, e.g., Call My Agent, Candice Renoir, and Munch; it's fun to recognize idioms and sometimes not even need the subtitles.