Article
Raising ‘multilingual’ children in Japan: Is it OK if their Japanese isn’t fluent?
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20260306/p2a/00m/0na/035000c
Discussion questions
- What is your opinion on bilingual education? What about learning three or more languages?
- Research has shown that a bilingual education from a young age can be quite beneficial to learning. Do you think there are drawbacks to this?
- Why does adding a third language for very young children seem to complicate their language development?
- In the article it seems that the children didn’t have a true “native” language. Do you think there are benefits to having a strong core language, a native language, that children can master while adding a new language on top of that?
- Do you think there is a limit to the number of languages humans can learn and master?
