The Bilingual Edge: Why, When, and How to Teach Your Child a Second Language

As a Spanish tutor on campus, I often work with beginning Spanish students. Many are eager to learn and try really hard, but all too often, I meet students who seem have given up on language learning, daunted by the task before them. Now, I should preface this by saying that this is not entirely our fault.

After all, American public school systems invariably start teaching foreign languages in late middle school and early high school, even though studies have consistently shown that foreign language acquisition comes much easier when it is started before puberty. This logic makes absolutely no sense to me.

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