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Language Development Myth #5

By: Smart Coos Statistics show that language learning starts to get complicated after the fourth language, but that does not necessarily mean it’s impossible or even harmful to learn more languages - it just gets a little harder. How you structure language learning for you or your child is usually…

Language Development Myth #4

By: Smart Coos Close to 75% of the world’s population speaks more than one language. It just so happens that, because English is the lingua franca of the world, English-speaking countries tend to have higher levels of monolingualism because most of the world already speaks their language. It is only…

Language Development Myth #3

By: Smart Coos It’s true that children learn to speak a language more easily than adults, but that doesn’t mean that they don’t need help doing so. Like anything else, practice makes perfect. Children don’t even pick up their native language without being exposed to it for long periods of…

Language Development Myth #2

By: Smart Coos For a very long time, it was thought that knowing more than one language would actually hinder your learning by slowing down your learning and confusing you. However, now that extensive research has been conducted in the field of language acquisition and development, it is clear that…

Language Development Myth

Language Development Myth By: Smart Coos Because the United States is one of the few countries in the world that has a mostly monolingual population, pediatricians who study in the States only receive instruction on the language development of monolingual children. Only trained language development specialists receive extensive training on…

Sound Symbolism in Language Development

By: Joshua Watson Edited by: Gelsey Brizo Sound Symbolism in Language Development Suppose you’re presented with two abstract shapes like those pictured above: one with sharp, jagged edges, and another with smooth, rounded curves. Given no further information, you’re asked to identify one of the shapes as “bouba,” and the…

Learning Spanish the Right Way

By: Jessie Mundo Edited by: Gelsey Brizo Learning Spanish the Right Way Spanish can be a tricky language, especially with all the anglicisms it keeps accepting. Many words are being borrowed from English and there are a lot of words that sound alike in both languages, but that doesn’t mean…

English Homonyms

By: Smart Coos English Homonyms Learning a language is an intimidating task in and of itself, but even experienced speakers of a language often fall victim to commonly misused words in the twisted web of mispronunciations, misspellings, and homonyms, that language can be. To make it easier for new language…

French Homophones

by: Smart Coos French Homophones Learning languages is fun and exciting, but sometimes it can be a little tricky. We all remember struggling with words that were just so gosh darn similar they tripped us up all the time. “You’re” and “your” always confused me as a kid and my…

Interesting Advantage to Becoming Bilingual

by: Summer Blackhurst Interesting Advantage to Becoming Bilingual Joe Budelli from California doesn’t speak Spanish, but his two girls are in a Spanish speaking dual immersion program and he uses native language speakers in his home to help the girls do well in school. Joe was pleasantly surprised, however, when…

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