Bilingualism. Is your kid ready?

Nowadays all of us understand the importance that has knowledge of different languages for personal or professional reasons. Each mum wants her kid to know as many languages as he can.

A lot of parents are affraid of introducing more than a language to their kid, others are asking themselves if it is ok to introduce a second language to theirs' kiddo. The truth is that human brain has a lot of flexibility and is prepared not just for the second language but even more languages. I always thought that the easiest time to introduce a second language to our kid is till 3 years, but recently I found in other resources that it can be done till age of 8. So, go ahead, it is never too late.
To explain better the word bilinguism, it is to mention that it is considered a bilingual person, the person who is able to use 2 or more languages at the same level of understanding and does not make any difference by it's difficulty. And this happens due to the environment where kid is growing like family or community.

When baby hears 2 or more languages at the same time, baby accepts them both, the same way as another kid who hears only one language. The only difference between these babies can be, that the first baby who listens 2 or more languages begins to talk a little bit later, because he internalizes these languages before saying anything. After different studies on bilinguism, there have come to a conclusion that babies' brain who grew in a bilingual environment works as a traffic light. When he has to choose a word, he gives green light for the language that it is used at that moment. And this natural process of choosing the right language, becomes a good gymnastics for his brain.

Advantages of bilinguism.

1. Kids with bilinguism concentrate better and they are not upset by the noise of the class to make their works.

2. Brain of a bilingual person is much more flexible and in critical situations can find more solutions and even more quickly.

Age for bilinguism.

As I mentioned before, after looking for recent studies any kid till 8 years can be bilingual if the language is introduced as a natural second language. What about other ages? Of course, it is possible as well, but it comes to be more difficult. And always it is easier to have that environment of the language that we want to learn.

Good luck for those who want to be bilingual.