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| Title | Multilingual Day Care in the Washington DC Area |
| Body | From http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/23/AR2007062301390.html?hpid=topnews Nap Time and Playtime And Time to Learn Farsi By Delphine Schrank Sunday, June 24, 2007 In Ashburn, Cenna Cripe, 21 months, will pucker up on cue, but only if her English-speaking mother, Christie, says "hati bossa" -- an Arabic request for a kiss. And in Annandale, Sasha Geisinger, 2, disappointed her mother somewhat when one of the first words out of her mouth was "dudu." Then Narra Geisinger learned that Sasha was using the Urdu word for milk. Children such as these in the polyglot Washington region often surprise their parents with language feats learned in day care. The large number of foreign-born care providers in the area enables many parents to kick-start their children's knowledge of a second or even a third language from among a growing babel that includes Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, Pashto, Hindi and Amharic, in addition to French and Spanish. Read the entire article at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/23/AR2007062301390.html?hpid=topnews . |
| Source | Washington Post |
| Inputdate | 2007-07-01 07:44:32 |
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| Publishdate | 2007-07-02 00:00:00 |
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