Re: Teaching a child three languages


jimbo.tyson@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

In a later message you asked about consistence - multilinguals aren't
especially consistent - or at least not those I know and "code
switching" (roughly mixing elements from different languages) is normal
for bilinguals.

Not all of them, I don't think. I don't do it - and I'm fully
bilingual in English and Russian. The two languages occupy very
separate parts of my mind. I do notice that when I spend a long time
in a Russian-speaking environment, I start making English pronunciation
mistakes - specifically, failure to differentiate between long and
short vowels (as in "live" vs. "leave") - but that's a bit different
from "code-switching", I think.

LM

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