Not sure this is a serious question but I grew up with three, and my brothers and I have absolutely no discipline. We just use whatever word comes to mind quickest. It's a fcking mess.
how many languages can you immerse a baby in before you fuck up their ability to learn any language at all
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three is p optimal i have friends who grew up w that (parents w 2 different home languages + english). but wondering how many do you need such that a baby wouldn’t have space to learn any single one
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I speak 7 - All fluently before the age of 4, just by sheer luck (multilingual school, relatives, friends)
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Curious. Which languages?
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You won't. Your brain doesn't memorize a giant lookup table for all possible grammars and word combinations. It builds models. Those models are reused, not just in language learning but for other tasks, like problem solving and creativity and humor and sports.
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Presumably every language brings *some* new ideas to the table. This implies something approximating an O(log N) complexity space for learning languages.
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everyone in my family grew up with 3 and is onto 4/5 now and it’s mostly been fine. the newest one is rougher for all, though can’t tell if it’s just because of it being newest
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The baby will prolly learn all but might not differentiate the different languages and speak in the most efficient manner and figure out what language to use to illicit response it needs :)
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In my parent circles 3 seems to be the max, but usually the 3rd is secondary. e.g. school -> english home -> spanish regular grandparent visits -> japanese
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Born to cross cultural parentage, I grew up in a locality that spoke a whole bunch of languages so I I grew up speaking 5 languages and understood 7. Lost touch and currently speak only 3 now.
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