A study found bilingual children exposed to both English and Spanish learned more words than monolingual children. But mixing grammar rules across languages slows acquisition, so caregivers should keep languages separate when speaking to kids.
I'm looking at a study here. And they did a study between speaking only English and speaking English and Spanish. Obviously, this is in America. And they did a study after five weeks. They saw that just using English, they would have deprived the child's language input by a significant amount and they didn't acquire as many words. Whereas they used both languages and bombarded the kids with the both languages, they actually saw a very significant improvement. So make sure when you talk, stick to one language only, all right? And use the rules perfectly. Do not use a Chinese grammar in English. Do not use the English grammar in Chinese. Do not mix the words inside. Do not put the words, even if it's the correct place to put them. So you're going to say, oh, but my kid makes codes all the time. We do it all the time. Right. As bilingual and trilingual speakers. Right? That's fine. The reason why is because when children are acquiring language, they will mix the codes up because now they have to retrieve from three different language systems.
