Use of language in general, and about learning foreign languages. See also the tags [language-development] and [bilingual].
Questions tagged [language]
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Why do parents refer to themselves in the third person?
Can anyone explain to me the reason why parents tend to refer to themselves in the third person, when talking to their young children?
E.g.:
"Hold Daddy's hand while we cross the road"
as opposed to
"Hold my hand while we cross the road"
Is there…
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7 Yr Old Using Violent Language During Play
My 7 year old son has started using words like 'kill', 'murder' and 'stab' when he's playing with me or other kids. He's not angry or violent about it. For example we might be playing/pretending to be ninjas and he'll say "I'm going to murder you".…
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My 3 year old son sounds incredibly racist, how to handle this?
My 3yo got a book about monkeys for Christmas and he's been all about monkeys for a couple weeks.
Like all kids this age, he talks a lot, and has a wild imagination, but we live in a cosmopolitan city, and to an outsider, he sounds like the worst…
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How can parents bring up children with multiple languages at the same time?
Have you been bringing up your children with multiple languages at the same time since childhood? What is your result? This means your family has the foreign environment to often communicate each others, not just let your children go to school to…
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Which language should we speak to our child if we have different mother languages?
Me and my husband have different mother languages. We are having a baby. Which language should we speak to baby, mine or my husband? We are living in my husband country not my country.
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Mastering a foreign language without staying in a country to which the language is native
I am not a native English speaker. What I would like to understand is - if a non native speaker who’s got a fairly decent command on the language (in this case say English) speaks to his or her kid in English, would it increase their kids grasp on…
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