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| Title | Article: Unraveling How Children Become Bilingual So Easily |
| Body | From http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_med_healthbeat_bilingual_tots Unraveling how children become bilingual so easily By LAURAN NEERGAARD July 21, 2009 New research is showing just how children's brains can become bilingual so easily, findings that scientists hope eventually could help the rest of us learn a new language a bit easier. It's remarkable that babies being raised bilingual — by simply speaking to them in two languages — can learn both in the time it takes most babies to learn one. On average, monolingual and bilingual babies start talking around age 1 and can say about 50 words by 18 months. What might help people who missed their childhood window? Baby brains need personal interaction to soak in a new language — TV or CDs alone don't work. So researchers are improving the technology that adults tend to use for language learning, to make it more social and possibly tap brain circuitry that tots would use. Read the full article at http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_med_healthbeat_bilingual_tots |
| Source | Associated Press |
| Inputdate | 2009-07-26 09:49:57 |
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| Publishdate | 2009-07-27 00:00:00 |
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