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Bilingual people I'm interested in this topic and want to know more about bilingual people. Do you know anybody who speaks 2 languages by birth? May be you is a bilingual person yourself, if so, tell me, in what language do you usually think and speak? I know that there are people who were born in a family with parents belonging to different cultures. So, these children start speaking 2 languages automatically. I wish my future child could speak both Russian and English and I know some women in Russia who know English perfect and they developed a special education programme to bring up their children as bilingual persons. But isn't it a bit risky, in case if your child finally mixes 2 languages and starts speraking his/her own variant or stops speaking at all? In other cases, people who leave their motherland being little children can also start speaking the 2nd language fluently, as native speakers. My friend left Russia for Canada when she was about 9-10 years old. But she comes back for every summer holidays. So She speaks engl. in perfectly and she still speaks rus. but when she arrives she has an awful english accent and all the intonations are wrong in russian,(suppose I sound the same rediculous when I speak english with russian intonation) so we always laugh at her) But she adapts in a few weeks and her speech becomes quite OK.

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Bilingual people

I'm interested in this topic and want to know more about bilingual people. Do you know anybody who speaks 2 languages by birth? May be you are a bilingual person yourself, if so, tell me, in what language do you usually think and speak? I know that there are people who were born in a family with parents belonging to different cultures. So, these children start speaking 2 languages automatically. I wish my future child could speak both Russian and English and I know some women in Russia who know English perfect and they developed a special education programme to bring up their children as bilingual persons. But isn't it a bit risky, in case if your child ultimately mixes 2 languages and starts speaking his/her own variant or stops speaking at all?
In other cases, people who leave their motherland as little children can also start speaking the 2nd language fluently, as native speakers. My friend left Russia for Canada when she was about 9-10 years old. But she comes back for every summer holidays. So She speaks engl.(delted) perfectly and she still speaks rus. but when she arrives she has an awful english accent and all the intonations are wrong in russian,(suppose I sound the same (deleted) when I speak english with russian intonation) so we always laugh at her) But she adapts in a few weeks and her speech becomes quite OK.

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I was raised speaking two very different languages. It can be difficult but the benefits of being bilingual are pretty great! And yes, there can be a mixing of the two languages (Spanglish for example) but its not a terrible thing.
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Nata,so it is impossible that a child will know some words in english and some in russian only, and thus, will create his own language using both of them,isn't it? I am perplexed-what if he/she starts speaking eng with his nurse at a kindergarten or wherever else and this may cause troubles
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Bilingual people

I'm interested in this topic and want to know more about bilingual people. Do you know anybody who speaks has been speaking 2 languages by since birth? Maybe you is are a bilingual person yourself; if so, tell me, in what language do you usually think and speak? I know that there are people who were born in a family with parents belonging to of different cultures, so, these children start speaking 2 languages automatically. I wish my future child could speak both Russian and English. and I know some women in Russia who know English perfectly and they developed a special education programme to bring up their children as bilingual persons. But isn't it a bit risky, in case if your child finally eventually mixes the 2 languages and starts speraking speaking his/her own variant or stops speaking at all?


In other cases, people who leave their motherland being as little children can also start speaking the 2nd language fluently, as native speakers. My friend left Russia for Canada when she was about 9-10 years old, but she comes back for every summer holidays. So She speaks engl. in English perfectly and she still speaks rus. Russian, but when she arrives she has an awful English accent, and all the intonations are wrong in Russian. (I suppose I sound the same just as ridiculous when I speak English with Russian intonations.) so We always laugh at her, but she adapts in a few weeks and her speech becomes quite OK good.

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The best you can do just to practice both languages with a child.

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