bilingual children
Dual-language young ones
Children who speak two languages, typically because they're raised in a multilingual household or environment.
The term appears in education and developmental contexts: Bilingual children often switch between languages mid-sentence.
Research on bilingual children examines how early language exposure affects cognitive development and academic performance.
- fluentSpeaking smoothly, effortlessly
- native speakerOne who grew up speaking it
- nativeOriginating from a place
- tongueOral muscle for taste
- code-switchingAlternating between linguistic varieties
immersion · vocabulary · first words · accent · heritage · dual · speaking · learning · polyglot · mother tongue · classroom · school readiness · pronunciation · grammar · translation · interpreter · culture · identity
- multilingual communitiescode-switching, heritage speakers, ethnic enclaves, Chinatown, Koreatown
- Asian diasporaVietnamese Americans, Japanese Americans, Filipino Americans, Korean community, ethnic enclaves
- multilingual placesSwitzerland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Singapore, Canada
- Global Kidsmilitary brats
- cross-border marriageinternational marriage, cross-cultural marriage, foreign spouse, intermarriage, mixed marriage
- mixed marriagesintermarriage, mixed marriages, interracial couples, interfaith marriage, mixed heritage
bilingual, bilingually, bilingualism, lingual, lingua, linguist, linguistic, linguistics, linguistically