Also, Yahoo Groups is apparently incompetent when it comes to search engines. Even if you know the exact name of the group you want to find, The 'Find a Group' search on the Yahoo groups homepage: http://groups.yahoo.com/ will return 'Sorry, no matches found'. This means you can't tell someone that you have a group on Yahoo groups and just give them the name. You have to give them the exact URL, otherwise it doesn't exist.
From what I've read, children in most environments develop one of the languages as 'dominant' and are usually quite capable in that one - despite the best efforts of parents. Some children do develop as you describe, but in studying them long term it has been discovered that these same 'slow' children on average outpace their one language peers in the shared dominant language later because of their additional linguistic skills. Learning a second language early seems to give children the ability to abstract at an early age the concept of language itself. I'd go on, but actually a lot of research has been done on this topic. Here are some links. Enjoy!
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Also, Yahoo Groups is apparently incompetent when it comes to search engines. Even if you know the exact name of the group you want to find, The 'Find a Group' search on the Yahoo groups homepage: http://groups.yahoo.com/ will return 'Sorry, no matches found'. This means you can't tell someone that you have a group on Yahoo groups and just give them the name. You have to give them the exact URL, otherwise it doesn't exist.
From what I've read, children in most environments develop one of the languages as 'dominant' and are usually quite capable in that one - despite the best efforts of parents. Some children do develop as you describe, but in studying them long term it has been discovered that these same 'slow' children on average outpace their one language peers in the shared dominant language later because of their additional linguistic skills. Learning a second language early seems to give children the ability to abstract at an early age the concept of language itself. I'd go on, but actually a lot of research has been done on this topic. Here are some links. Enjoy!
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http://www.usc.edu/dept/education/CMMR/home.html
http://www.nabe.org/
http://www.cal.org/ http://www.cal.org/resources/digest/earlychild.ht
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