yahoo showed me this post on the web today. bilingual kids= ahead of the game.
"Mastering your dominant language gets in the way of learning a second, less familiar one, Kuhl's research suggests. The brain tunes out sounds that don't fit. "You're building a brain architecture that's a perfect fit for Japanese or English or French," whatever is native, Kuhl explains — or, if you're a lucky baby, a brain with two sets of neural circuits dedicated to two languages."
[i love how the article uses the example of learning japanese & english!!] i used to dream of having bilingual children. i still think it'd be awesome, but the chances are slimmer since i no longer live in a foreign country...
however, i DO have at least one small window of opportunity: my student, patricia, told me that she has a cousin named roberto who is single. today she offered me his phone number. haha.
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