Early language learning. What do you think? Hello, my dear friends! During almost two years I have a greatest pleasure in life - to be a mother of a lovely child. My son Daniel is very active and fidgety child. He is also very clever. In his age he already knows the right and the left hand and leg. For instance, his father confuses at times :-) From Daniels's first days I try to speak with him a lot (it is easy for me, because I am very talkative) and on all languages I know, no matter how well I can speak on them. In this way, my son heard and can understand Russian, Kazakh, English, French and Chinese. Of course the main language for him is Russian, on others he knows just several words. My neighbours warn me and discourage to teach my son several languages. In most part of the kindergartens teachers have the same point of view. They think that baby should learn one language and start to speak clearly on it. As soon as the child will speak on one language as clear as his/her parents, then you can start to teach him another language. Otherwise the baby will not speak any of them. From the other hand, I' learned another opinion from the famous linguists and pedagogical specialists. According to them, there are four steps of the multilanguage learning by the babies: 1. Do not understand any language, just listen; 2. Understand some words from one language, other words from another language; 3. Speak both languages, but confuse some words. Can start sentence on one language and finish on another or add some words from another language in the middle of the sentence. 4. On this step the languages will be divided. The child understands when to use one language or another. Do not confuse the words. I think we are now on the third step. Of course my son cannot speak long sentences now. I try to speak with him as clearly as I can and only the words I know for sure. I am not native speaker of most of them. That's why I try to show him cartoons and read him books on those languages. From my point of view, even if Daniel will not be able to speak fluently on all those languages, he will subconsiously remember the words and understand the speaking. That will help him to learn these and many other languages in the future. p.s.: Before we watched the cartoon about the bus. The bus was red. Daniel learned "Red bus" (actually he sais "Eee busss" :-)). Now he is watching cartoon about buses of different colors. I am teaching him:"Blue bus, green bus...". Daniel:"Blue ee busss, geen ee busss.."