The other day, through a discussion on a networking site, I came across this: Speaking in tongues A mother in Lebanon tells of her children mixing three languages (English, French and Arabic) in a very peculiar way that has her and her husband scratching their heads. I’d be curious to know what has become of those kids […]

The research student of the LSCP (see my post from Dec. 18, 2010) gave me the link to an article about research on cognitive abilities in seven-month-old infants, a study that compared monolingual and bilingual babies: Cognitive gains in seven-month-old bilingual infants In a nutshell, the article describes a series of experiments that had monolingual and […]

I’m used to being the designated interpreter whenver we’re around my family or my old friends, few of whom speak French. Whether my dad comes visiting, or we stay for Christmas at my mom’s, I’m always glad when I make it through the days without mixing up languages. I don’t mean mixing them up in […]

A cousin of mine, who grew up in the US with her mother speaking German, spent a school year with her grandparents in Germany, going to German junior high school (she was 10). She’s now perfectly bilingual. One of my friends was born of French parents in Paris but raised in the US, her mother […]