Tag: bilingual children
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Ma-ma or about importance of learning child’s first language key words.
We sit at tiny tables in the toddler group—children aged two to three. It’s lunchtime. Spoons clink. Educators serve plates. But this little girl doesn’t eat.She sits there, tense, as if she doesn’t understand what’s happening.“Who is she?” I ask. “Where is her family from? What language does she speak?” Seems like Russian,” the Australian…