Chicago Now – Nick Jaworski
“Multilingual children have a lot of advantages over their monolingual peers – they tend to be more creative, perform better academically, can communicate with additional cultures, and have lower risk of diseases like Alzheimer’s. One of the ways I see this intelligence boost all the time with my daughter is when she mixes her languages. She just doesn’t mash languages together randomly, she does it in smart and complex ways that combine vocabulary and grammatical structures to produce meaning. A common myth of children’s language learning in the US is that they somehow confuse languages, when the exact opposite is the case. They know exactly what they are saying and to whom.”(more)