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A baby's mind
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Okay, say Spanish couple has a baby. The family moves to America and the parents both get jobs and the baby has to go to a daycare everyday. At home the parents only speak Spanish, and at the daycare only English is spoken. So if the baby spends equal amounts of time at home as at the daycare (say 8 hours at home, 8 hours at daycare, and 8 hours sleeping) would the baby learn to speak English fluently, Spanish fluently, both fluently, or both half assed?
Wise Man says: "Take a dog off its leash and it will wander."
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| I think it would depend on who stimulated their mind the most. |
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| Chances are the parents ,knowing that their jobs required English, probably lives in a more English fluent town so i think they would teach the child English first, then they would teach he/she thier native language. |
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by S-a-c-h-i-e-l
on 2005-12-08 00:32:18
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It also depends on which the baby likes more; the friends at the daycare or the parents.  |
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Going on the experience of people I know who parents generally speak there native tongue at home, the kid would be fluent in both languages. Also when we are babies are brains tend to soak up information like a sponge, and thus make it the best time to be learning languages. |
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| Chances are the baby will learn English more because: The baby's exposed to other kids who speak english and the baby will grow up in a country with people who speak English. Based on what I have seen, the kids who migrated with their parents to U.S. tend to be more fluent in speaking English rather than their native ones, eventhough the parents are pure Spanish or other races. |
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on 2005-12-08 21:26:45 |
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i agree with vipera.since the kid is exposed to both languages he/she could easily learn both language. |
