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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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.
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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Agreed, I also grew up with three. Also keen to know!
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The origin of each language matters. Once you know 1-2 latin languages, it becomes easier to learn a new one from the same/similar root. English (Germanic + latin influence). You’ll rarely find a German speaking Spanish, and viceversa. But both speaking English, common.
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This sounds like a question for the Language Log. https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/ I suspect that there is no cap, but the downside isn’t space, it’s time to competency in *any* language, and competency would be delayed across all languages.
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My cousins grew up learning 5
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My kids are growing up with and not gonna lie it's a bit fucked
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Real issue probably wouldn’t be space so much as limited sampling paired with the fact that the baby has to learn how to differentiate the languages at first. In the earliest stages, multilingual children need to key in that they are receiving data from multiple languages.
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For fun, maybe you can project the learning delay past the samples that are known.
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