tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-980951139270141970.post171969161148526714..comments2023-11-30T10:43:33.130-06:00Comments on Reading Freely: Bringing up BébéStephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15097908023032528200noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-980951139270141970.post-19914830761140388592012-07-15T09:55:29.911-05:002012-07-15T09:55:29.911-05:00sc said: Druckermen comments on her daughter Bean&...sc said: Druckermen comments on her daughter Bean's early bilingualism, freely mixing English and French in the same sentence.<br /><br />I experienced that on a train between Rome and Florence. We were in a compartment with an American woman and her two children. They lived in Switzerland with her Italian husband. The children could speak English, Italian, French and German and freely constructed sentences from all four languages - and struggled to understand why we failed to understand what they were saying! Their ages were 8 and 6!CyberKittenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06394155516712665665noreply@blogger.com