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<blockquote data-quote="keista" data-source="post: 474908" data-attributes="member: 11965"><p>I've had several friends raise their kids bilingually. ALL were referred for speech and language therapy (I was also referred as a kid but never placed). ALL therapists told the parents to drop the "second" language (in their home, that was the primary language) ALL parents refused to drop the language. ALL kids are doing just fine right now. One exception was a friend whose kids were <strong>not</strong> learning/progressing in <strong>either</strong> language. Their English is now normal, exceptional even. Unfortunately it's their only language, BUT these are kids that had pretty much NO language at age 3, and had intensive speech therapy, so it's possible they never would have mastered both languages anyway.</p><p></p><p>I, as well as most of my friends, were raised bilingual. "We" learned English from Sesame Street (kid's TV show) We were all slightly behind in vocabulary but caught up quickly.</p><p></p><p>Here's an interesting tidbit though, which may or may not be related to language. Our collective childhood memories are very limited. We each have a handful of pre school memories, but working memory seems to begin once we entered school - the time when we acquired our current thinking language. Of course there are exceptions, and I haven't "polled" all that many 100% English speakers of their early childhood memories, but those I have asked about this have more and more vivid memories.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, the grammatical issues you pointed out, do seem quite normal for a 4 y/o and especially for a trilingual one at that. Let school focus on French and you focus on English at home. If there are no TV shows in English, find videos on the computer to help enrich is English language - assuming you want him fluent in English.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="keista, post: 474908, member: 11965"] I've had several friends raise their kids bilingually. ALL were referred for speech and language therapy (I was also referred as a kid but never placed). ALL therapists told the parents to drop the "second" language (in their home, that was the primary language) ALL parents refused to drop the language. ALL kids are doing just fine right now. One exception was a friend whose kids were [B]not[/B] learning/progressing in [B]either[/B] language. Their English is now normal, exceptional even. Unfortunately it's their only language, BUT these are kids that had pretty much NO language at age 3, and had intensive speech therapy, so it's possible they never would have mastered both languages anyway. I, as well as most of my friends, were raised bilingual. "We" learned English from Sesame Street (kid's TV show) We were all slightly behind in vocabulary but caught up quickly. Here's an interesting tidbit though, which may or may not be related to language. Our collective childhood memories are very limited. We each have a handful of pre school memories, but working memory seems to begin once we entered school - the time when we acquired our current thinking language. Of course there are exceptions, and I haven't "polled" all that many 100% English speakers of their early childhood memories, but those I have asked about this have more and more vivid memories. Anyway, the grammatical issues you pointed out, do seem quite normal for a 4 y/o and especially for a trilingual one at that. Let school focus on French and you focus on English at home. If there are no TV shows in English, find videos on the computer to help enrich is English language - assuming you want him fluent in English. [/QUOTE]
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