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Good news for the parents of bilingual and multilingual children:

Infants understand much more than they would show!  They know that words in language "stand for" something else and look for the object to associate the word with. The study was published in Scientific Report , 2015; 5: 1359  "Can you see what I am talking about? Human speech triggers referential expectation in four-month-old infants." Hanna Marno, Teresa Farroni, Yamil Vidal Dos Santos, Milad Ekramnia, Marina Nespor, Jacques Mehler. 

All infants can distinguish two different languages until they are six month old; however, only bilingual infants distinguish the difference between the languages when they are eight month old , according to University of British Columbia psychologist Janet Werker research.

Our children already know the grammar rules at the age of 2!  The study performed by Charles Yang, a professor of linguistics at University of Pennsylvania, was published in the PNAS.

According to new research by Panos Athanasopoulos, of Newcastle University, learning a foreign language literally changes the way one sees the world. 

learning vocabulary and grammar you’re also unconsciously learning a whole new way of seeing the world

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2011-03-bilinguals-blues.html#jCp

learning vocabulary and grammar you’re also unconsciously learning a whole new way of seeing the world

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2011-03-bilinguals-blues.html#jCp

learning vocabulary and grammar you’re also unconsciously learning a whole new way of seeing the world

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2011-03-bilinguals-blues.html#jCp

learning vocabulary and grammar you’re also unconsciously learning a whole new way of seeing the world

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2011-03-bilinguals-blues.html#jCp 

An interesting article written by Francois Grosjean, Ph.D. The level of activation of the bilingual's languages depends on three factors: linguistic, psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic.

According to a study from Concordia University,  bilinguals have better attention control: "Exposing toddlers to a second language early in their development provides a bilingual advantage that enhances attention control."

 According to the Science daily,   there were new findings published in Psychological Science  journal regarding bilingualism."...Hearing two languages regularly during pregnancy puts infants on the road to bilingualism by birth."


According to the Science daily ,  a study published in the  Journal of Experimental Child Psychology confirms the positive effect of bilingualism on working memory.