Research conducted by the Child specialists have cited that the best and most efficient stage of learning to speak a new language is from the age of two till seven. At this age, their brain development is at its peak, where they could easily pick up new words and phrases, as well as new languages effortless. Parents need to be made aware of these critical growing years and they should make the best out of these golden years to train your child on their mother tongue and also to pick up secondary language to better equipped themselves with multiple language skills.
Scientists revealed that studies carried out on many different multiple nationalities across the world showed that children who are raised bilingually or with multilingual are actually ‘smarter’ where they are found to have better and sharper cognitive powers than their monolingual peers. This had been claimed to be the effect of significant computational analysis demands of processing and interpreting different languages in the brain.
In foreign countries, children were sent to language school as early as age 3 to have their strong foundation built for their mother tongue, while at the same time trying their hands on other foreign language, such as Hindu, Chinese, Japanese, France, Bengali and others. The ability of using more than one language in oral and writing placed them competitiveness well above their peers, as children who lives their lives bilingual or multilingual have the ability to access their curriculum through multiple languages and face no limitations when it comes to communications.
Not only do young children pick up conversing in the new foreign languages faster, but they are also found to be making new friends from different nationality and culture because young children tend show lesser resistance to start speaking with their new learned language as compared to adults. As speaking made perfect, children are able to speak more fluently using their new language as compared to their parents which learning the same thing.
Today, in recognition of the benefits of early bilingual learning, local authorities have enforced the support of mother tongue learning through bilingual learning activities in formal schools and learning institutions. The National Language Strategy in the U.S.A as well as the Ministry of education in the third world countries have begun to promote their strategy of early learning in this area now for they have came to realize the value of bilingualism in the society today.