[CTRL] Second language education

1999-07-11 Thread Tenorlove
-Caveat Lector- I believe that it is so important that I have begun teaching my children at home (and learning alongside them). My six-year-old speaks Spanish fluently. My four-year-old can converse with our Polish neighbor in Polish, and is also learning Spanish. I'm finding it much harder to

Re: [CTRL] Second language education

1999-07-11 Thread William Shannon
-Caveat Lector- Hey Tenorlove...good for you!! Far better to know 2 languages than one... Noam Chomsky has written that our ability to learn new languages is at its peak in early childhood when the "language center" of the brain is still growing (hence the ability we have at an early age to