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| Title | Article: Learning New Languages Easiest for the Very, Very Young |
| Body | From http://news.therecord.com/News/CanadaWorld/article/227130 Learning new languages easiest for the very, very young August 11, 2007 LUISA D'AMATO Long before they say their first word, babies are wired to learn many languages. A growing body of research shows that infants only a few months old have the capacity to be multilingual. These abilities start to disappear after about eight months of age, unless the child is already exposed to different languages in his or her daily life. Researchers think this is because, by eight months of age, the child's brain is focusing only on the sounds of the language spoken daily. Still, there's excitement in the growing awareness that babies seem to know so much more than we thought. Read the entire article at http://news.therecord.com/News/CanadaWorld/article/227130 . |
| Source | The Record |
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