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HOW MANY LANGUAGES COULD A CHILD SPEAK? NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Randall Munroe How Many Languages Could a Child Speak? Good Question In theory, a young person could master a broad array of tongues. But there are some inherent limits. Sign up for Science Times Get stories that capture the wonders of nature, the cosmos and the human body. If a newborn child grows up hearing people speaking in many different languages, will it later be able to speak all those languages? — Puneesh T., India Children learn languages from the people around them. If they are exposed to multiple languages, they may grow up bilingual or multilingual. These kinds of environments are not unusual; the consensus among linguists is that a majority of children in the world grow up hearing multiple languages.
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS So, what if a child were raised in an environment where they were exposed to dozens or hundreds of languages? We can imagine an Oliver Twisttype character, growing up in some sort of hypothetical global train station, interacting with a rotating cast of station employees and visitors from all over the world. Could such a child become omnilingual? Probably not, says Suzy J. Styles, a developmental psychologist at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore who studies language acquisition. One obstacle is time: The more languages you’re exposed to, the less exposure you have to each one. If you’re learning 365 languages in a year, you can’t have more than one full day of exposure to each one. Our scenario also leaves out something fundamental, Dr. Styles said: what the child wants. Children aren’t just sponges that absorb everything around them. (If they were, meal times would be a lot easier.) They pay attention to the world and develop feelings and opinions about it, and that plays a big role in how they learn.
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS “Kids are motivated by watching others use their language together,” Dr. Styles said. “And they are generally motivated to use those languages that they see having the greatest social impact.” If a nondescript traveler wanders through the station speaking an unfamiliar language and no one pays attention to them, the child probably won’t either. But if someone really cool shows up speaking Icelandic or ancient Minoan, and everyone turns to look, the child will notice. If people seem excited to talk to the newcomer, the child may get the impression that the language is cool and desirable to know. Children pay more attention to the speech of people they’re interested in and the people they want to imitate.
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS So if you want to encourage a child to learn a lot of languages, you need to expose them to many of them — and make those languages seem desirable, even cool. How do you do that? Well, I honestly might not be the best person to ask. Despite my best efforts, “How to make something seem cool to kids at school” is a skill I never did get the hang of. In other words, to learn lots of languages, kids don’t just need exposure, they need motivation. “One place particularly well-known for its linguistic density is the highlands of Papua New Guinea,” Dr. Styles said, “where being able to communicate in several neighboring languages is a great social advantage.” In situations like those, she said, children can learn to communicate fluently in a wide variety of languages.
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS We cordially invite you to chant the Dhammacakkappavattanna Sutta in homage to the Great Masters to reach our goal of 5,086,000,333 rounds by Friday 3rd February 2023 at Wat Phra Dhammakaya, Pathumthani Province. Please join us online on ZOOM072.COM or GBNUS LIVE. #GreatMastersDay #ChantDhammacakkappavattanaSutta #WatPhraDhammakaya
These are pictures of our online Zoom classes for semester 4 of the Dhammakaya Elite Language Center (DELC). It was held from 1st November to 29th December 2022. We had five Chinese language classes, four English language classes and one German language class. There were a total of ten language classes. In addition, we also offered English lessons for meditation monks. There were a total of 130 registered students for semester 4. DELC PPHHOOTTOOSS
LITTLE JOKE For the first time, my four-year-old daughter Kelsey was coming to my office to have me, a dental hygienist, clean her teeth. She was accompanied by her grandmother. When they came in, I greeted them warmly, seated Kelsey and, as usual, put on my gloves, goggles and mask. About ten minutes into the procedure, she got scared and cried, "I want my mommy!" I quickly pulled off my mask and said, "I am your mommy." Without hesitating, my daughter yelled back, "Then I want my granny!" • LAURIE GOFF
LITTLE JOKE My mother is always trying to understand what motivates people, especially those in her family. One day she and my sister were talking about one relative's bad luck. "Why do you suppose she changed jobs?" Mother asked my sister. "Maybe she has a subconscious desire not to succeed." "Or maybe it just happened," said my sister, exasperated. "Do you know you analyze everything to death?" Mother was silent for a moment. "That's true," she said. "Why do you think I do that?" • BOBBIE S. CYPHERS
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