Children 7 months old can learn bilingual

French and Canadian researchers say that children from 7 months old can learn and understand 2 languages, although their grammatical structures are very different.

The report from the University of British Columbia and Paris Descartes University shows that, in bilingual environments used in high intensity for a long time, infants can distinguish and understand two very different languages. like English - Japanese. For example, in English, from the function preceding the content such as the dog, his hat, with friends and the time of the word content is longer. While Japanese is in reverse order and volume from higher content.

Janet Werker, who majored in psychology at the University of British Columbia, said that babies aged 7 months were very sensitive to these differences and could use signals to tell adults about it. Children can also use the frequency of words in a talk to distinguish their meaning.

UPI quoted researchers as saying that the bilingual environment does not mean zero games, but that children know how to understand each language separately, distinguish them.